{"id":9100,"date":"2014-09-02T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2014-09-02T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T10:00:44","slug":"rmr-confirmed-as-14th-cef-manages-to-keep-pants-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-confirmed-as-14th-cef-manages-to-keep-pants-on\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR Confirmed As 14th CEF, Manages to Keep Pants On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #1e1e1e;\">THIS DAY IN HISTORY \u2013 02 September 1914 \u2013\u00a0<\/span>\u201cBy the end of August thousands of troops had poured into Valcartier and organization of a Canadian division was in process.\u00a0 After one or two tentative formations had been abandoned, the Royal Montreal Regiment, which for some time had been known as the 1st Battalion, R.M.R. was given the title 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, and placed in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Canadian Infantry Brigade, under the command of Col. R.E.W. Turner, V.C., D.S.O., a veteran of the South African War, who had won his primary distinction at Komati River, on November 7, 1900. With the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Royal Montreal Regiment, in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Brigade were the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada, from Montreal; the 15<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, 48<sup>th<\/sup> Highlanders, from Toronto; and the 16<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Canadian Scottish, composed of units from the Seaforth Highlanders (Vancouver), the Gordon Highlanders (Victoria), the Cameron Highlanders (Winnipeg), and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Hamilton).<\/p>\n<p>These units commanded respectively by Lieut.-Cols. F.O.W. Loomis, J.A. Currie, and R.G.E. Leckie, caused the formation to be spoken of as the \u201cHighland Brigade\u201d and at one time it was suggested that the 14<sup>th<\/sup> should doff trousers and don the kilt.\u00a0 The incongruity of Grenadiers, Riflemen, and French-Canadian Infantry in kilts was pointed out, however, and the proposal definitely rejected.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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; pg. 8.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN HISTORY \u2013 02 September 1914 \u2013\u00a0\u201cBy the end of August thousands of troops had poured into Valcartier and organization of a Canadian division was in process.\u00a0 After<\/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-9100","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\/9100","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=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}