{"id":9288,"date":"2014-09-20T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9288"},"modified":"2014-09-20T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T10:00:15","slug":"25000-men-paraded-in-valcartier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/25000-men-paraded-in-valcartier\/","title":{"rendered":"25,000 Men Paraded in Valcartier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20-Sept-1914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20-Sept-1914-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"20 Sept 1914\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 20 September 1914 &#8211; \u201cIssue of material and equipment continued through September, service uniforms gradually replacing the militia uniforms and mufti in which the troops had reached camp.\u00a0 As a result of these issues the men presented a smart appearance when reviewed by H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught on September 20<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Departure of the Contingent was imminent by this time and many people were visiting the camp to wish the troops good-bye, among them H.R.H.. the Duchess of Connaught, H.R.H. the Princess Patricia, The Right Honourable Sir Robert Borden, and many of the heads of Church and State.\u00a0 The parade therefore, was memorable, and improvement in the bearing of the troops was noted, particularly when the units marched past in columns of half battalions in line.\u00a0 The march past of thirty thousand men is always an impressive sight, but this occasion had special significance as Canada\u2019s royal Governor-General was reviewing the First Contingent for the last time.\u00a0 With emotion, therefore, he bade the troops \u201cGod speed\u201d.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were 25,000 men in the march past which occupied an hour; every man was properly uniformed, and all were armed, the whole force \u2013 horse, foot and artillery showing a state of readiness. In the morning, mass was solemnized at three stations, and there were communion services for Anglican and Presbyterian soldiers.\u00a0 Later there was a union service [interdenominational], the first ever held at a military camp in Canada at which clerical representatives of Protestant denominations and Catholic priests stood on the same platform.\u00a0 There were fully 20,000 men at the service, the battalions being massed before a stand draped with patriotic colours.\u00a0 On the stand stood a signal sergeant who \u201cwig-wagged\u201d the numbers of the hymns to the battalion signallers who gave the numbers to their own units.\u00a0 Another feature of the service was that the books of the service were distributed from a motor truck.\u00a0 Chaplain Major R.H. Steacy, of Ottawa (Divisional Chaplain) conducted the service, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Canon Scott of Quebec.\u201d <a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1] <em>\u201c<\/em>Valcartier Saw Finest Review Held In Canada,\u201d<em> The Montreal Daily Mail<\/em>, Montreal, Monday, September 21, 1914, pg. 2, col.1.<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[2]<\/a> 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. 10..<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[3]<\/a> \u201cValcartier Review a Memorable Scene, Men advanced to a High State of Efficiency,\u201d <em>The Globe (1844-1936), <\/em>Toronto, Ontario, Monday, September 21, 1914,\u00a0 pg. 3, col. 1.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 20 September 1914 &#8211; \u201cIssue of material and equipment continued through September, service uniforms gradually replacing the militia uniforms and mufti in which the troops<\/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-9288","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\/9288","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=9288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}