{"id":10817,"date":"2015-03-13T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2015-03-13T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:00:50","slug":"rmr-giant-laid-low-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-giant-laid-low-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR &quot;GIANT&quot; LAID LOW IN 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Saturday, March 13, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In Trenches, Rue\u00a0Petillon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: <em>\u201cRelieved at night by 15<sup>th<\/sup> Battn.\u00a0 Relief more quickly done this tour.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/13-Mar-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10818 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/13-Mar-15-300x108.png\" alt=\"13 Mar 15\" width=\"300\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cOne of Montreal\u2019s most stalwart volunteers, Corporal Albert Brown, 6 feet 4 inches in height, has been wounded in the fighting in France and is now at No. 2 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne.\u00a0 Brown was shot in the arm while serving with his comrades of the First Royal Montreal Regiment, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion.<\/p>\n<p>Though only 20 years of age, Corporal Brown is a veritable giant, and besides his unusual height, * is of good physique.\u00a0 He was born at Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, in 1895, the son of Mr. J. Brown who came to Montreal a few years ago, and who is now janitor in the Shirley Apartments, Western Avenue, Westmount.<\/p>\n<p>Corporal Brown is not the only stalwart son in the family.\u00a0 His brother, John James Brown, is of equal stature, and is also fighting for his country.\u00a0 A regular in the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and having seen service before, he is now at the front with the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Brigade Canadian Artillery.\u00a0 Mr. J. Brown received a telegram from Ottawa last night informing him that his son had been wounded in action.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*\u00a0 Note: No 25925 Pte. Albert Brown\u2019s enlistment papers give his height as 5 ft 11 \u00bd inches, which by present day standards is not unusually tall, however, in the early 1900s this would have been considered quite tall.<\/em><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, March 13, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089701.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089701.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cCorporal Albert Brown Of The 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion Is Wounded At Boulogne,\u201d <em>The Montreal Daily Mail<\/em>, Montreal, Quebec, Wednesday, March 11, 1915, pg. 12, col. 2.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, March 13, 1915 In Trenches, Rue\u00a0Petillon The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cRelieved at night by 15th Battn.\u00a0 Relief more quickly done this tour.\u201d\u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN<\/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-10817","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\/10817","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=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}