{"id":9742,"date":"2014-10-28T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2014-10-28T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T10:00:28","slug":"camp-life-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/camp-life-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Life in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 28 October 1914 &#8211; From the 14<sup>th<\/sup> BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Wednesday, October 28, 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.\u00a0 Training under difficulties on account of bad weather.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/28-Oct-14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9584 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/28-Oct-14-300x63.jpg\" alt=\"28 Oct 14\" width=\"300\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a>CAMP LIFE: \u00a0<\/strong>Apparently the question of how the troops at Salisbury Camp were to pass their off-duty time was of considerable concern.\u00a0 \u201cA promising response is being made to Sir Edward Ward\u2019s appeal for gifts of books for the troops on Salisbury Plain.\u00a0 Fifty thousand volumes are asked for and will certainly be quickly obtained.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Ward has been appointed by the War Office generally to advise Lord Kitchener in regard to matters affecting the overseas contingent.\u00a0 His idea is to organize a lending library at Salisbury Camp.\u00a0 Already the Canadian contingent has received from the minister of the interior a neat little collection of patriotic poems and songs beginning with the Maple Leaf and ending with Kipling\u2019s Recessional.<\/p>\n<p>The canteen question at Salisbury Plain is likely to take on a new phase, at any rate among section dwellers in camp.\u00a0 A strong feeling is growing that canteens should be in charge of a canteen sergeant, who will see proper regulations enforced, instead of such an institution being under contract from an outsider, who may only show anxiety to establish as big a trade as possible.\u00a0 Amongst the officers there is a strong desire to establish regimental messes, instead of the present brigade messes, which prove expensive.\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>\n\n[2]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Question of Library, Messes and Canteens Discussed at Salisbury Plain,\u201d Canadian Associated Press Cable, <em>The Ottawa Citizen,<\/em> Wednesday, October 28, 1914, pg 1, col. 7.<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 28 October 1914 &#8211; From the 14th BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY: Wednesday, October 28, 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-9742","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\/9742","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=9742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}