{"id":8895,"date":"2014-08-19T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=8895"},"modified":"2014-08-19T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T10:00:44","slug":"8895-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/8895-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR mobilized as part of 1st Canadian Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/19-Aug-14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7891 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/19-Aug-14.jpg\" alt=\"19 Aug 14\" width=\"224\" height=\"703\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 19 August 1914 &#8211; Although the Canadian Government\u2019s initial offer, made at the beginning of the month, to send troops to the aid of Great Britain contemplated sending one division comprising approximately 22,500 \u2013 23,000 troops, volunteers for active service appeared in such great numbers that the initial target was very quickly exceeded.\u00a0 By August 18<sup>th<\/sup> reports indicated that more than 25,000 men would mobilize and that number would be far exceeded in the days to come.<\/p>\n<pre>[1] \u201cCanadian Troops Mobilize Today: Orders to Commanding Officers Are Issued,\u201d <em>The Globe (1844-1936); <\/em>Aug 19, 1914; pg. 1.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 19 August 1914 &#8211; Although the Canadian Government\u2019s initial offer, made at the beginning of the month, to send troops to the aid 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-8895","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\/8895","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=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}