Tuesday, March 16, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n
In billets, Rue\u00a0du Quesne<\/strong><\/p>\n The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cNo parade except rifle inspection.\u00a0 Men played football in the afternoon.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>[1]<\/a><\/p>\n The Battalion history has noted that after moving back to these billets on the night of the 13th<\/sup>, no parades, except rifle inspections, were held on the 14th<\/sup>, 15th<\/sup> and 16th<\/sup>, to give the men a thorough rest, which was varied only by a few games of football on the afternoon of the 16th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0 [2]<\/a><\/p>\n THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0Three Wounded Canadians Received Additional Injuries<\/strong><\/p>\n (Special Cable from The Gazette\u2019s Resident Staff Correspondent.)\u00a0 London, March 8 – How the Germans fired upon an ambulance in which two wounded Canadians were being conveyed to a base hospital is told by one of the men who had received a bullet wound in the leg during a charge.\u00a0 After lying wounded from mid-day until midnight he was conveyed to a dressing station and after receiving attention there he was placed in an ambulance.\u00a0 This was in the afternoon and when the vehicle was half a mile from the town with no troops or other apparatus near, the ambulance was hit by a shell which inflicted further, though not serious, injuries to both occupants.<\/p>\n A similar incident occurred when a corporal from one of the Canadian battalions was being conveyed to hospital.\u00a0 He had been wounded in the head and when a shell burst upon the ambulance the wounded corporal sustained a shattered thigh.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 [3]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, March 16, 1915 In billets, Rue\u00a0du Quesne The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cNo parade except rifle inspection.\u00a0 Men played football in the afternoon.\u201d\u00a0[1] The Battalion history<\/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-10829","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\/10829","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=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, March 16, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089701.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, The Royal Montreal Regiment 14th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 31.<\/pre>\n
[3]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFired on Ambulances,\u201d The Gazette<\/em>, Montreal, Quebec, Tuesday, March 9, 1915, pg. 1, col. 2.<\/pre>\n
![http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089701.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, The Royal Montreal Regiment 14th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 31.<\/pre>\n[3]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFired on Ambulances,\u201d The Gazette<\/em>, Montreal, Quebec, Tuesday, March 9, 1915, pg. 1, col. 2.<\/pre>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, March 16, 1915 In billets, Rue\u00a0du Quesne The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cNo parade except rifle inspection.\u00a0 Men played football in the afternoon.\u201d\u00a0[1] The Battalion history<\/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-10829","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\/10829","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=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089701.jpg\"){kind=link}