{"id":9717,"date":"2014-10-20T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9717"},"modified":"2014-10-20T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:00:46","slug":"rmrs-boy-mascot-is-stowaway-from-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmrs-boy-mascot-is-stowaway-from-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR&#039;s BOY MASCOT IS STOWAWAY FROM MONTREAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 20 October 1914 &#8211; From the 14<sup>th<\/sup> BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tuesday, October 20, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cWeather fine. Meeting of officers to discuss arrangements with Harrods, which did not seem likely to be satisfactory.\u00a0 Pte. Hartley buried in Shrewton Churchyard.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MONTREAL BOY MASCOT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the Canadian Contingent\u2019s supply transport approached Salisbury Camp upon its arrival in England, the local citizens spied an unusual sight.\u00a0 \u201cWhen the supply convoy first hove into view a tiny wasp of a lad was discovered on one of the caissons.\u00a0 He was blowing lustily on a battered bugle, the cracked notes flaring up in a strange crescendo.\u00a0 Around his shoulders was a big overcoat loaned him by a grizzled sergeant.\u00a0 The youngster is a Montreal newsboy who stowed away on one of the ships and who has become the pet of the contingent.\u00a0 He put in every spare moment on shipboard practicing the bugle and hoped to qualify as a performer on that instrument in order that he may follow the troops to France.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This \u201cboy mascot\u201d was 14 year old Bugler Anthony Ginley #26265 of The Royal Montreal Regiment about whom more will be written at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Oct. 20, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089670.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089670.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>The Toronto World<\/em>, Saturday, October 17, 1914, pg. 1, col. 1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 20 October 1914 &#8211; From the 14th BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY: Tuesday, October 20, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South \u201cWeather fine. Meeting of<\/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-9717","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\/9717","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=9717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}