{"id":9817,"date":"2014-11-01T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9817"},"modified":"2014-11-01T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T10:00:09","slug":"rain-and-mud-greets-rmr-in-november-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rain-and-mud-greets-rmr-in-november-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain and Mud Greets RMR in November 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 01\u00a0November 1914 &#8211; From the 14<sup>th<\/sup> BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sunday, November 1, 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.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9754\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/01-Nov-14.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9754 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/01-Nov-14-300x162.png\" alt=\"01 Nov 14\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Army motor car at Lark Hill, Salisbury, pulled by horses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Rain and Mud:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe weather continued to be cold and raw, with occasional frosts at night, and there were no facilities for drying clothes.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While organization work and training is proceeding, the days are quite short.\u00a0 It is dark when reveille sounds and the men dress by candlelight.\u00a0 At 6:15 am they fall in for a run, then fold blankets and clean tents, and other duties before breakfast which is followed by drill or a route march.\u00a0 There is more drill in the afternoon and the evening meal is served about 5 o\u2019clock, again by candlelight.\u00a0 At present the men are free to enjoy themselves in the evenings but apart from such places such as the Y.M.C.A. there is not much opportunity for recreation.\u00a0 Huts are being built by civilian contractors and men are being detailed from each Canadian battalion to assist the contractors to speed up the completion of these huts for occupancy by the Canadian troops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cFollowing Lord Robert\u2019s visit, the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion Diary states that company training was carried out, several long route marches took place, and on one occasion, battalion manoeuvres in extended order familiarized the troops with the mud which was to play such a part in their lives in the months to come.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\"><em><strong>[4]<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1] War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Nov 1, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2] Army motor car at Lark Hill, Salisbury, pulled by horses; Canadian War Museum Photo Archives Image: M.298; Control No.1990003-362<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201cOfficial History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1, Part 1, King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pg. 128<\/pre>\n<pre><a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[4]<\/a>\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co.,Ltd., 1927, pg. 18.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 01\u00a0November 1914 &#8211; From the 14th BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY: Sunday, November 1, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South The Battalion War Diarist wrote<\/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-9817","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\/9817","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=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}