{"id":9303,"date":"2014-09-25T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2014-09-25T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:00:54","slug":"first-move-to-embarkation-for-rmr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/first-move-to-embarkation-for-rmr\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST MOVE TO EMBARKATION FOR RMR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9015\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/25-Sept-1914.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9015 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/25-Sept-1914-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"25 Sept 1914\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Troops detraining at Quebec City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 25 September 1914 &#8211; \u201cFor the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, which at this time numbered 46 officers and 1,097 other ranks, the move began on the afternoon of September 25<sup>th<\/sup>, when Nos. 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8 Companies, under the command of Lieut.-Col. F.S. Meighen, proceeded by train to Quebec and boarded the Cunard liner <em>Alaunia<\/em>, which was also carrying the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada, the Headquarters of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Canadian Infantry Brigade, and A.S.C. Details (Divisional Train).\u00a0\u00a0 The<em> Alaunia<\/em>, commanded by Capt. Rostron, R.N.R. swung into mid-stream once the troops were on board and with other transports lay beneath the walls of the towering Citadel awaiting orders to sail.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>[1] Dodds, Brig.- Gen. W. O. H., C.M.G., D.S.O. (J.A.Millar) Photographs Relating to the Great War, 1914-1918.; Special Collections, University of Victoria Libraries.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/spcoll.library.uvic.ca\/Digit\/WOD\/Individual%20Photos\/17_4.htm\">http:\/\/spcoll.library.uvic.ca\/Digit\/WOD\/Individual%20Photos\/17_4.htm<\/a><\/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. 11.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 25 September 1914 &#8211; \u201cFor the 14th Battalion, which at this time numbered 46 officers and 1,097 other ranks, the move began on the afternoon<\/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-9303","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\/9303","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=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}