{"id":8986,"date":"2014-08-30T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2014-08-30T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T10:00:47","slug":"routine-sets-in-for-rmr-in-valcartier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/routine-sets-in-for-rmr-in-valcartier\/","title":{"rendered":"Routine Sets in For RMR in Valcartier"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8987\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 558px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/29-Aug-14_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8987 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/29-Aug-14_1.png\" alt=\"29 Aug 14_1\" width=\"558\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">RMR Drilling in Valcartier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 30 August 1914 &#8211; \u201cFor a few days after arrival at Valcartier the Royal Montreal Regiment was occupied with routine.\u00a0 As Sir Andrew Macphail in his official \u201cMedical Services\u201d observed about Valcartier, \u201cmilitary training in a general sense was negligible.\u201d\u00a0 Thirty-three thousand men, drawn from over two hundred units of the Canadian Militia assembled in the camp and time was necessarily spent in \u201corganizing and reorganizing, issuing clothing and equipment, examining and inoculating recruits, and preparing for reviews.\u201d\u00a0 Work on the ranges was also a feature of Valcartier life, in spite of the prevailing shortages of rifles.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Montreal Regiment possessed three hundred rifles only, but these were passed from squad to squad and kept in service, with the result that every man was taught how a rifle should be handled and cared for.\u00a0 Special attention was also given to the Machine Gun Section of the Battalion which throughout the month at Valcartier trained diligently under the command of Lieut. R. de V. Terroux.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1] R.C. Featherstonhaugh, <em>The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pp. 7-8.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 30 August 1914 &#8211; \u201cFor a few days after arrival at Valcartier the Royal Montreal Regiment was occupied with routine.\u00a0 As Sir Andrew Macphail<\/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-8986","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\/8986","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=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}