{"id":8801,"date":"2014-08-14T05:46:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T09:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2014-08-14T05:46:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T09:46:21","slug":"rain-for-first-rmr-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rain-for-first-rmr-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain for first RMR parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"14<\/a><\/p>\n

THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 14 August 1914 – \u00a0The Montreal Garrison parade scheduled for the<\/span> evening of August <\/span>14th turned out to be an event<\/span> not to be forgotten. Thunder roared and lightning flashe<\/span>d<\/span> during the parade, rain swept in sheets across the ground, and the troops, most of whom were still in civilian clothes and many of whom had drilled for only a day or two, manoeuvered uncertainly, but with anxiety to do well, in mud and water ankle deep.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"14<\/a>From a military standpoint the review was a failure, as was the march through the city which followed. That <\/span>night<\/span> <\/span>in August remained as the first occasion on which many of the men realized that days of bitterness and testing lay inevitably before them.<\/span> It was a baptism of sorts, and would be the first of very many such wet days for the Battalion<\/span> <\/span>in the<\/span> months and<\/span> years ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is this where the term “RMR Weather” was born…?<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Dodds, Brig.- Gen. W. O. H., C.M.G., D.S.O. (J.A.Millar) Photographs Relating to the Great War, 1914-1918.; Special Collections, University of Victoria Libraries, The War Pictorial, p. 53; http:\/\/spcoll.library.uvic.ca\/Digit\/WOD\/Individual%20Photos\/05_1.htm\n\n2.\u00a0Featherstonhaugh, R.C., The Royal Montreal Regiment 14th Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925, pg. 6.\n\n3. The Montreal Daily Mail, Saturday, August 15, 1914, pg. 1, col. 1.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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