{"id":11536,"date":"2015-07-02T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=11536"},"modified":"2015-07-02T05:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T09:00:27","slug":"officer-casualty-rate-is-double-the-troops-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/officer-casualty-rate-is-double-the-troops-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer Casualty Rate Is Double The Troops In 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Friday, July 2, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Billets &#8211;\u00a0La Cr\u00eache<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote nothing for this day: \u00a0[1]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cIt will be important hereafter in computing the effect of wastage from sickness and wounds to note two announcements made in Britain yesterday. \u00a0Sir Wm. Osler says this is the first great war in history in which bullet, shell and bayonet will kill more men than disease, and that 60 percent of the wounded are able to return to their places at the front. \u00a0The War Office lists show that the proportion of killed to wounded is 23.5 among the rank and file and 43.6 among officers. \u00a0The reason for this tremendous disproportion is that the traditions of the British army require the officers \u2013 especially the Captains, Lieutenants and Sub-Lieutenants \u2013 to lead their men when a charge is ordered. \u00a0In many cases the officers, who are the first to appear from the trenches, are shot almost as soon as they emerge. \u00a0In field operations the proportion of officers killed and wounded would not be nearly so great as it is in trench actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, July 2, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089762.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089762.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0 \u201cWar Summary\u201d <em>The Globe (1844-1936<\/em>), Toronto, Ontario, Friday, July 2, 1915 pg. 1, col. 6; pg.2 col. 2<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, July 2, 1915 Billets &#8211;\u00a0La Cr\u00eache The Battalion War Diarist wrote nothing for this day: \u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cIt will be important hereafter in computing the effect<\/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-11536","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\/11536","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=11536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}