{"id":9265,"date":"2014-09-17T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9265"},"modified":"2014-09-17T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T10:00:29","slug":"rmrs-mock-battles-rattle-camp-valcartier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmrs-mock-battles-rattle-camp-valcartier\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR&#039;s Mock Battles Rattle Camp Valcartier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/17-Sept-1914.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9008 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/17-Sept-1914-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"17 Sept 1914\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 17 September 1914 &#8211; \u201cThe Highland Brigade was engaged in a sham battle to-day, and the fighting became so fierce that at one time the men actually leathered one another.\u00a0 The manoeuvres were closely followed by the Minister of Militia.\u00a0 Col. Meighen of Montreal commanded the attacking force, which was composed of the 5<sup>th<\/sup> Royal Highlanders and the 1st Royal Montreal Regiment, while the defending force under Col. Leckie of Vancouver was composed of the 48<sup>th<\/sup> Highlanders of Toronto, the Cameron Highlanders of Winnipeg, and the Seaforth Highlanders of Vancouver.\u00a0 Col. Turner, V.C., chief umpire with the attacking force, considered that the exercises had been well carried out, taking into account the restricted area in which the men had to work.\u00a0 The artillery had been compelled to come into action at rather short range, but they had kept well concealed, and had never been exposed to rifle fire, although they were quite within range of it.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the scheme of the defending forces involved their retirement, which was well covered, Col. Turner said, by their artillery.<\/p>\n<p>The Highlanders left camp at 7 o\u2019clock in the morning, carrying sufficient food with them for the day.\u00a0 They returned in the evening tired but happy, every man singing as they marched back to camp.<\/p>\n<p>The correspondent had started his report of the day stating \u201cOn Monday [Sept 21<sup>st<\/sup>] there is to be a sham battle in which the whole force is to be engaged.\u00a0 Up to the present tactical exercises on a large scale have not been attempted; but the training work has now reached the stage where it is considered advisable to have more than 25,000 men engaged in one large scheme.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1] W. Marchington, Staff Correspondent, \u201cSham Battle will Occupy Whole Force<em>,\u201d The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, September 18, 1914, pg. 3.<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[2]<\/a> Ibid.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 17 September 1914 &#8211; \u201cThe Highland Brigade was engaged in a sham battle to-day, and the fighting became so fierce that at one time the<\/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-9265","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\/9265","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=9265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}