{"id":13308,"date":"2017-07-29T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=13308"},"modified":"2017-07-29T06:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T10:00:25","slug":"witness-to-war-sunday-july-29-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/witness-to-war-sunday-july-29-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness to War: Sunday July 29, 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 July 29, 1917:<\/strong>\u00a0Church parade text. I am the way the truth &amp; the life very interesting service. Guess will write Dad about it. Name of this town \u2013 Ruitz \u2013 name of these people \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Heaulme Thuillier<\/p>\n<p>Cultivateur<\/p>\n<p>Ruitz<\/p>\n<p>Par Barlin<\/p>\n<p>Pas de Calais<\/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><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><\/p>\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-13308","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\/13308","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=13308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}