{"id":9168,"date":"2014-09-12T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9168"},"modified":"2014-09-12T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T10:00:07","slug":"rmr-band-is-authorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-band-is-authorized\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR Band is Authorized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 12 September 1914 &#8211; \u201cIn the War Establishments under which the First Canadian Contingent was organized no provision was made for regimental bands, but battalions which had an authorized peace establishment of pipers were allowed one sergeant piper and five pipers in addition.\u00a0 This, however, did not prevent the formation of bands; three kilted battalions (the 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 15<sup>th<\/sup> and 16<sup>th<\/sup>) had pipe bands from the parent Militia units, and the P.P.C.L.I. took over a civilian pipe band from Edmonton which volunteered as a body; four regimental bands from Militia units \u2013 two brass, one bugle, one fife and drum, with the 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 12<sup>th<\/sup> and 14<sup>th <\/sup>\u2013 accompanied their battalions with authority; two other Militia brass bands accompanied the 7<sup>th<\/sup> and 9<sup>th<\/sup> without prior authority.\u00a0 On 24<sup>th<\/sup> November 1914, by direction of the Minister, who was \u201ca great believer in bands\u201d and wished to see every unit provided with one, the establishment of all C.E.F. battalions was optionally increased by one bandmaster and twenty four men \u2013 an option exercised by seven of the thirteen battalions which fought as a unit in France, viz: 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 16<sup>th <\/sup>and P.P.C.L.I.\u00a0 At Valcartier the bands of the R.C.H.A. and R.C.G.A. were also present and played through the lines, but both returned to their peace stations when the Contingent sailed.\u201d\u00a0 [i]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[i] Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201c<em>Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1<\/em>, <em>Part 1,<\/em> King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pg. 70.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY &#8211; 12 September 1914 &#8211; \u201cIn the War Establishments under which the First Canadian Contingent was organized no provision was made for regimental bands, but<\/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-9168","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\/9168","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=9168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}