{"id":10764,"date":"2015-03-08T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10764"},"modified":"2015-03-08T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T10:00:52","slug":"canadians-doing-well-at-front-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/canadians-doing-well-at-front-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"CANADIANS DOING WELL AT FRONT IN 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Monday, March 8, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In billets Rue\u00a0du Quesne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: <em>\u201cBattn. resting.\u00a0 Senior officers reconnoitred G.H.Q. defence line, which runs immediately south of Rue Du Quesne, consisting of strong points, breastworks and a little wire.\u00a0 Line very rudimentary, and in bad repair.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0(Special to The Gazette), Ottawa, March 7.\u00a0\u00a0 That Canada has good reason to be proud of the Canadian troops who have already reached the firing line, is the tenor of despatches which have reached Ottawa from various sources in England and in France.\u00a0 In addition to these despatches, it is understood that the Government is being kept informed from day to day in official communications as to the progress of the operations in France and Belgium, including the work of the Canadian troops.\u00a0 These communications are said to amply bear out the unofficial messages which have come across the ocean with reference to the conduct of the Canadians in action.\u00a0 The Canadians are showing themselves to be experts in rapid and accurate rifle shooting, and in this respect are said to be the equal of any troops in the field.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0<em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, March 8, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089700.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u201cCanadians Doing Well,\u201d\u00a0 <em>The Gazette<\/em>, Montreal, Quebec, Monday, March 8, 1915, pg. 1, col. 3.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 8, 1915 In billets Rue\u00a0du Quesne The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cBattn. resting.\u00a0 Senior officers reconnoitred G.H.Q. defence line, which runs immediately south of Rue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}