{"id":13064,"date":"2017-05-20T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=13064"},"modified":"2017-05-20T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:00:44","slug":"witness-to-war-sunday-may-20-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/witness-to-war-sunday-may-20-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness to War: Sunday May 20, 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Duval-header_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Duval-header_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/history\/duval-diary\/\">Private Raymond Duval, MM<\/a>, was a soldier of the 14th Battalion (Royal Montreal Regiment) CEF who served overseas during the last two years of the First World War. He participated in some of the fiercest fighting seen by Canadians during the war and was decorated for bravery at Passchendaele. Determined to preserve his memories of the First World War, he maintained a daily record of his experiences. Here is what he wrote precisely 100 years ago today:<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Sunday May 20, 1917:<\/strong> Church in forenoon. Went to Worthing in afternoon with Ian MacDonald Fine little seaside town walked around all over the town and came back after having a real Canadian quick lunch at Phil\u2019s Wrote letter to Clare no 17.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/history\/duval-diary\/\">Search the glossary here for definition<\/a>s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Duvaldiaryheader1600x500.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12683 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Duvaldiaryheader1600x500.jpg\" width=\"1998\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/pre>\n<h5>The RMR Foundation thanks Natalie Dyck for generously sharing her publication of <em>&#8220;The Diary and Memoir of Private Raymond Duval&#8221;<\/em> in order for us to be able to share his story with you 100 years on. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/history\/duval-diary\/\">You can learn more about Private Duval here<\/a>.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Raymond Duval, MM, was a soldier of the 14th Battalion (Royal Montreal Regiment) CEF who served overseas during the last two years of the First World War. He participated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duval-diary","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064","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=13064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}