The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cNew men drafted to Companies, several exchanges of men arranged with Ontario battalions and other battalions of 3rd<\/sup> Brigade\u201d.\u00a0<\/em>[1]<\/a><\/p>\n THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0This exchange of men between battalions was occasioned by the fact noted in the previous day\u2019s diary – \u201cLarge draft of about 276 men arrived from England, mostly men from Toronto and Ontario points.\u00a0 It was discovered that men from Montreal who had come to England with 23rd<\/sup> Bn. C.E.F., and who were mostly from home units of the 14th<\/sup> Bn. had been sent to Ontario units in France.\u00a0 Much resentment felt by all ranks at this.\u00a0 Draft sent 14th<\/sup> Bn. was however, of good quality.\u201d\u00a0 [2]<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Although the First Canadian Division, C.E.F. had been mobilized in August and September 1914, and sailed for England in October, it was on this date that an article detailing its composition appeared in the national press. The article published May 8th<\/sup>, 1915 in The Globe<\/em>, Toronto under the following title, gave a listing of all the infantry battalions that made up the First Canadian Division.\u00a0 Each battalion was listed by brigade, with the name of its commanding officer, and then the names of the various units which had contributed men to the formation of the twelve battalions.<\/p>\n Although it would seem rather late in the day to publish a detailed listing of the many\u00a0 units making up the various infantry battalions of the First Canadian Division, such news had perhaps not been publicly disclosed before in such a detailed format.\u00a0 Without repeating the details for all sixteen battalions of the Division, suffice it to say that the 14th<\/sup> Battalion was correctly shown as part of the 3rd<\/sup> Infantry Brigade, commanded by Colonel R.E.W. Turner, V.C., D.S.O., R.O.<\/p>\n The Globe\u2019s listing for the 14th <\/sup>Battalion (RMR) shows it was commanded by Lt.-Col. F.S. Meighen, (1st<\/sup> Regiment), and showed the 14th <\/sup>\u00a0(RMR) was composed of detachments of troops from the following regiments:<\/p>\n This list agrees with the list recorded in Col. A.F. Duguid\u2019s \u201cOfficial History,\u201d Vol. 1 Pt 2, which also details the numbers of officers and men coming from each unit.<\/p>\n This table, however, does not mention two additional units that apparently supplied troops to the 14th<\/sup> on its establishment, but the 14th<\/sup> Battalion history records:\u00a0 \u201cTo bring the battalions of the newly formed 3rd<\/sup> Canadian Infantry Brigade up to war strength, reinforcements were allotted as required.\u00a0 To the 14th<\/sup> Battalion drafts were allocated from the<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday, May 8, 1915 In billets, Bailleul (Nouveau Monde) The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cNew men drafted to Companies, several exchanges of men arranged with Ontario battalions<\/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-11202","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\/11202","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=11202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"08](\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/08-May-15-300x60.png\")
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[1]\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, May 8, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089731.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, May 7, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089731.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[3] \u201cCanada\u2019s Battalions: Where they Came From,\u201d The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, May 8, 1915, pg. 23.<\/pre>\n
[4]\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid.<\/pre>\n
[5]\u00a0\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201cOfficial History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919, Vol. I, Part 2,<\/em> Chronology, Appendices and Maps,<\/em> King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, appendix 85, pg. 57.<\/a><\/pre>\n
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[6]\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. 9.<\/pre>\n
![http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089731.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n[2]\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, May 7, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089731.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n[3] \u201cCanada\u2019s Battalions: Where they Came From,\u201d The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, May 8, 1915, pg. 23.<\/pre>\n[4]\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid.<\/pre>\n[5]\u00a0\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201cOfficial History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919, Vol. I, Part 2,<\/em> Chronology, Appendices and Maps,<\/em> King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, appendix 85, pg. 57.<\/a><\/pre>\nhttp:\/\/www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca\/dhh-dhp\/his\/docs\/CFGW_VOL1Pt2_E.pdf<\/a><\/pre>\n[6]\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. 9.<\/pre>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, May 8, 1915 In billets, Bailleul (Nouveau Monde) The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cNew men drafted to Companies, several exchanges of men arranged with Ontario battalions<\/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-11202","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\/11202","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=11202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089731.jpg\"){kind=link}