{"id":7249,"date":"2014-04-27T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=7249"},"modified":"2014-04-27T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T15:46:56","slug":"98th-annual-ypres-dinner-held-by-rmr-ncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/98th-annual-ypres-dinner-held-by-rmr-ncos\/","title":{"rendered":"98th annual &quot;Ypres Dinner&quot; held by RMR NCO&#039;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westmount, 26 April 14 &#8211; The Warrant Officers&#8217; &amp; Sergeants&#8217; Mess of the RMR held their 98th annual mess dinner to commemorate the first major action fought by the RMR (the &#8220;Second Battle of Ypres&#8221;), where so many of their comrades were killed, gassed, wounded, or taken prisoner. \u00a0The RMR NCO&#8217;s held their first commemorative dinner in 1916 and have never failed to mark this significant anniversary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7259\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-26-18.16.01-e1398613343659.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7259 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-26-18.16.01-e1398613343659-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2014-04-26 18.16.01\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/unknown-captain-steacie-headstone-now-in-rmr-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steacie Marker<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year, to accompany the traditional empty table representing our fallen comrades, the RSM and PMC decided to include the grave marker of Captain Richard Steacie, the first\u00a0RMR officer killed in action &#8211; and killed\u00a0at the Second Battle of Ypres &#8211; and whose remains\u00a0were only recently identified. \u00a0The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/unknown-captain-steacie-headstone-now-in-rmr-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steacie marker<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0now resides in the Museum and will eventually be incorporated into a permanent display at the RMR.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Close to 50 guests were in attendance, a mix of serving RMR NCO&#8217;s, former members, as well as guests from the Regiment&#8217;s affiliated cities, other units in 34 Brigade and the Army Reserve Sergeant-Major.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7260\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-26-18.16.08.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7260 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-04-26-18.16.08-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"2014-04-26 18.16.08\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">PMC and RSM prior to receiving guests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westmount, 26 April 14 &#8211; The Warrant Officers&#8217; &amp; Sergeants&#8217; Mess of the RMR held their 98th annual mess dinner to commemorate the first major action fought by the RMR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249","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=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}