{"id":7848,"date":"2014-08-05T05:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2014-08-05T05:51:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:51:45","slug":"rmr-gets-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-gets-named\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR gets named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/05-Aug-1914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7851\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/05-Aug-1914-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"05 Aug 1914\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/strong>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; August 5, 1914:\u00a0 After being ordered to combine their forces, and following a series of meetings involving the Grenadier Guards, the Victoria Rifles, and the Carabiniers de Mont-Royal, an active service battalion was created.\u00a0 The Canadian Minister of Defence, Col. Hon. Sam Hughes, bestowed on the new unit the title \u201cRoyal Montreal Regiment\u201d and under this name the battalion fought in France.\u00a0 At the time the use of the word Royal was not legitimate. Officially the warrant to use the royal prefix was granted by King George only after the Regiment had established its worth in battle and had returned to Canada.\u00a0 In the meantime the title \u201cRoyal Montreal Regiment\u201d was used to designate the Battalion in the Army List issued by the War Office. [1]<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, this day began with the opening land battle of the war when the German Second Army, following the German \u201cSchlieffen Plan,\u201d crossed the frontier into neutral Belgium in order to attack France from the north. This was the first time since 1839 that German troops had entered Belgium.\u00a0 This opening attack was to become known as The Battle of Liege.\u00a0 It lasted from August 5<sup>th<\/sup> to 16th 1914.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1]The Montreal Daily Mail, August 5, 10914, pg. 1.<\/pre>\n<pre>[2]Featherstonhaugh, R.C., <em>The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>,\u00a0 pg. 5<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; August 5, 1914:\u00a0 After being ordered to combine their forces, and following a series of meetings involving the Grenadier Guards, the Victoria Rifles, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centennial","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848","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=7848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}