{"id":7921,"date":"2014-08-11T05:52:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T09:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2014-08-11T05:52:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T09:52:39","slug":"seeing-double-two-colonels-running-rmr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/seeing-double-two-colonels-running-rmr\/","title":{"rendered":"SEEING DOUBLE? TWO COLONELS RUNNING RMR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7881\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 282px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/11-Aug-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/11-Aug-14.jpg\" alt=\"Lt.-Col. W.W. Burland, D.S.O. Commanding Officer - June 19th, 1915 - Oct 28th, 1915\" width=\"282\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Lt.-Col. W.W. Burland, D.S.O.<br \/>Commanding Officer &#8211; June 19th, 1915 &#8211; Oct 28th, 1915<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 11 August 1914 &#8211; The officer named second-in-command of the newly formed Royal Montreal Regiment was Lieut.-Colonel William Watt Burland, the Commanding Officer of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Regiment, Victoria Rifles of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>William Watt Burland was born at Montreal, September 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 1877, son of Lieut.-Col. William Benjamin Burland MD and Flora Stewart (Watt) Burland. He was educated in Montreal.\u00a0 He became a Lieutenant, in the Canadian Military in 1895; Captain, 1903; Major, 1910, and Lieutenant-Colonel 12 Sept. 1912.\u00a0 After being appointed second in command of the 14th Battalion in 1914 he went overseas with the Battalion in September 1914.<\/p>\n<p>In June 1915 Burland was gazetted to succeed Lt.-Col. F.S. Meighen in command of the 14th Battalion in France, a post he held until October 28<sup>th<\/sup>, 1915.\u00a0 He was then posted to command the Canadian Military School, at Shorncliffe.\u00a0 \u00a0He was &#8220;Mentioned in Despatches&#8221; three times and was wounded in May 1915.\u00a0\u00a0 For distinguished service in the field Lieutenant Colonel Burland was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order following the Second Battle of Ypres [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915].<\/p>\n<p>Following his appointment at Shorncliffe, Burland was appointed General Staff Officer for the 39<sup>th<\/sup> Division Imperial Army October 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 1917 to July 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 1918.\u00a0 He then moved to the IX Corps, Imperial Army for the period July 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 1918 to January 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 1919.<\/p>\n<p>Lieut.-Colonel William Watt Burland died December 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 1935. \u00a0At his funeral on December 20<sup>th<\/sup> six former Victoria Rifles Commanding Officers acted as pall bearers at the head of a long cortege.\u00a0 Burial took place in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Various Sources including:<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/lib.militaryarchive.co.uk\/library\/Biographical\/library\/The-VC-and-DSO-Volume-II\/files\/assets\/basic-html\/page411.html\">http:\/\/lib.militaryarchive.co.uk\/library\/Biographical\/library\/The-VC-and-DSO-Volume-II\/files\/assets\/basic-html\/page411.html<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~coigach\/altimack.htm\">http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~coigach\/altimack.htm<\/a>- The-VC-and-DSO-Volume-II<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 11 August 1914 &#8211; The officer named second-in-command of the newly formed Royal Montreal Regiment was Lieut.-Colonel William Watt Burland, the Commanding Officer of<\/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-7921","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\/7921","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=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}