{"id":9734,"date":"2014-10-26T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9734"},"modified":"2014-10-26T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T10:00:20","slug":"canucks-can-sleep-on-a-picket-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/canucks-can-sleep-on-a-picket-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks can sleep on a picket fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 26 October 1914 &#8211; From the 14<sup>th<\/sup> BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Monday, October 26, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cRain. Training begun\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>LORD ROBERTS\u2019 REVIEW &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>An account by a member of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion (RMR):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/26-Oct-14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9582 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/26-Oct-14-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"26 Oct 14\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Private Harold \u2018Hal\u2019 Hareward Brown, No 25694 of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, from Ottawa, son of Mr. J.H. Brown, of First Avenue in that city, had written to his father from camp on Salisbury Plain, telling of the review of the Canadian Contingent by Lord Roberts the previous Saturday, October 24<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were reviewed this morning by Earl Roberts, lined up on the brow of a hill back of the camp.\u00a0 The parade included our regiment, the First Royal Montreal, the Fifth Royal Highlanders, the Forty-eighth Highlanders, of Toronto, and several other corps, and took place at noon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBobs, little, stony-eyed and soldierly, drove down our lines in a steel grey car, accompanied by Maj.-Gen. Hughes, and followed in three more grey autos by his military attaches.\u00a0 He seemed smaller and older than I had imagined him, but the quick decisive movements of his head and hands as he looked, questioned, and nodded approval, betrayed an unflagging interest in soldiery affairs.\u00a0 You could tell when he was approaching by the stiffening of the ranks, the tensing of the muscles of the men already stiffly at attention, and the silence &#8211; absolute silence &#8211; that followed in the wake of the old Marshal.<\/p>\n<p>The mounted officers looked like equestrian statues, and as for the men \u2013 well I suppose we looked like graven images.\u00a0 I know I was doing my best to look that way.<\/p>\n<p>Tell the rest of the boys, if they want to achieve popularity, to come over here in a Canuck\u2019s uniform.\u00a0 Some of the older ladies even insist on kissing young and handsome members of the contingent.\u00a0 If we had given away all the buttons we\u2019ve been asked for by fair charmers, we\u2019d be a ragged brigade.\u00a0 If they want to achieve physical fitness also they ought to come along, for we are all strong and ruddy-cheeked, and able to eat at all hours, and able to sleep on top of a picket fence.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 \u00a0<em>War Diary, 14th Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Oct. 25, 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><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0 \u201cCanucks Can Sleep On A Picket Fence,\u201d <em>The Evening Citizen<\/em>, Ottawa, Ontario, Monday November 9, 1914, pg. 1, col.3.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=2194&amp;dat=19141109&amp;id=mHEuAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=P9kFAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2767,3680217\">http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=2194&amp;dat=19141109&amp;id=mHEuAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=P9kFAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2767,3680217<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 26 October 1914 &#8211; From the 14th BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY: Monday, October 26, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South The Battalion War Diarist<\/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-9734","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\/9734","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=9734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}