{"id":9751,"date":"2014-10-31T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9751"},"modified":"2014-10-31T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T10:00:22","slug":"officer-selection-from-the-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/officer-selection-from-the-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer Selection from the Ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 31 October 1914 &#8211; From the 14<sup>th<\/sup> BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Saturday, October 31, 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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">OFFICER COMMISSIONS<\/span>: \u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIt was decided early in the War that Commissions should be granted to non-commissioned officers and men who showed that they possessed the requisite qualities for leadership; but while service in the Field was a valuable apprenticeship, special training was of course absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure this the Canadian Training School for Infantry Officers was established at Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex.\u00a0 Here candidates for commissions were given instructions in all branches of practical military knowledge, while junior Officers who needed additional instruction were given special courses and advanced training.\u00a0 The School, which was noted for its precision in drill movements, its <em>esprit-de-corps<\/em> and general efficiency, was an object of great interest to Imperial Officers, among whom Field-Marshal Lord French, when Commander-in-Chief of the Home Forces in Great Britain, placed it on record that he was much impressed by the establishment\u2019s smartness, keenness and efficiency.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/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><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Report of the Ministry, Overseas Military Forces of Canada 1918<\/em>, London, Printed by the Authority of the Ministry, Overseas Military Forces of Canada, pg. 15.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 31 October 1914 &#8211; From the 14th BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY: Saturday, October 31, 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-9751","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\/9751","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=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}