Friday, April 2, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n
In rest billets\u00a0northern outskirts of\u00a0Estaires<\/strong><\/p>\n The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cC.O. and 2nd<\/sup> in Command went to Fauquissart with GO.C. 3rd<\/sup> Brigade and reconnoitred German lines for proposed attack which however, did not take place.\u201d <\/em>[1]<\/a><\/p>\n THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201c(Canadian Associated Press Cable) London, April 2 \u2013 The Distinguished Conduct Medal is gazetted tonight to Private C. B. Nourse, of the Princess Pat\u2019s, for conspicuous gallantry at St. Eloi on the 28th<\/sup> of February, when he was one of\u00a0 the first to enter the German trenches in an attack.\u00a0 He scaled the barrier and continued to fight on the far side until he had fired 130 rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n Private Nourse is a South African and is a member of No. 1 Company of the Pat\u2019s.\u00a0 He is the first member of a Canadian regiment to be decorated in the present war.\u00a0 He enlisted from Toronto.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0** \u00a0[2]<\/a><\/p>\n Friday, April 2, 1915 In rest billets\u00a0northern outskirts of\u00a0Estaires The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cC.O. and 2nd in Command went to Fauquissart with GO.C. 3rd Brigade and<\/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-10925","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\/10925","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=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00a0* Note\u00a0 1:\u00a0 Although the media often referred to them as the \u2018Princess Pat\u2019s\u2019 no member of Canada\u2019s distinguished regiment, the Princess Patricia\u2019s Canadian Light Infantry,\u201d past or present, would ever refer to their fine regiment as the \u2018Princess Pat\u2019s.\u2019\u00a0 That is considered an insult, and they rightfully refer to their regiment as the \u201cPrincess Patricia\u2019s.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n
**\u00a0 Note 2:\u00a0 See our posting for March 11, 1915<\/a> in which was recorded the award of a D.C.M. for Stretcher Bearer Reginald H. Drake of the 14th<\/sup> Bn.\u00a0 His was the first D.C.M. to be awarded to a member of the First Canadian Division<\/span>.\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n
The above announcement of the award of the D.C.M. to Private C. B. Nourse of the Princess Patricia\u2019s for gallantry on February 28th<\/sup> was the first such award to a Canadian in the First World War<\/span>.\u00a0 The distinction is that the Princess Patricia\u2019s were then serving as a part of the 80th<\/sup> Brigade of the 27th<\/sup> British Division, and not under a Canadian formation.<\/em><\/h5>\n
[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, April 2, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089714.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFirst Canadian to Receive the D.C.M.,\u201d The Citizen<\/em>, Ottawa, Ontario, Friday, April 2, 1915, pg. 3, col. 1.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089714.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFirst Canadian to Receive the D.C.M.,\u201d The Citizen<\/em>, Ottawa, Ontario, Friday, April 2, 1915, pg. 3, col. 1.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, April 2, 1915 In rest billets\u00a0northern outskirts of\u00a0Estaires The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cC.O. and 2nd in Command went to Fauquissart with GO.C. 3rd Brigade and<\/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-10925","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\/10925","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=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089714.jpg\"){kind=link}