{"id":9820,"date":"2014-11-02T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9820"},"modified":"2014-11-02T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T11:00:56","slug":"rehearsal-for-inspection-by-the-king-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rehearsal-for-inspection-by-the-king-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehearsal for Inspection by The King in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 02 November 1914 &#8211; From the 14<sup>th<\/sup> BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Monday, November 2, 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. Rehearsal for coming inspection of Division by H.M. The King.\u00a0 Division in line of battalions in mass on both sides of road from Bustard to West Down South.\u00a0 Major Beatty, A.D.C. to General Alderson representing the King.\u00a0 All movements exactly as to be carried out when the King is present\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rehearsal for Inspection by The King: \u00a0<\/strong>The Battalion history says: \u201cOn November 2nd the Canadian Division, drawn up in line of battalions in mass on both sides of the road from Bustard to West Down South, spent three hours practicing for a review by His Majesty the King.\u00a0 Rain poured during the rehearsal and the men were drenched to the skin.\u00a0 All, however, were anxious to do well before the King and took the cold discomfort in good part.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November more than an inch of rain fell; in the high winds the light tents afforded little protection, and the number of blankets per man was increased from three to four.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1] War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Nov 2, 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><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, <em>The Royal Montreal Regiment 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette, Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 18.<\/pre>\n<pre>\u00a0<a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201c<em>Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1<\/em>, <em>Part 1,<\/em> King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pp. 128-129.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 02 November 1914 &#8211; From the 14th BATTALION (RMR) WAR DIARY: Monday, November 2, 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-9820","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\/9820","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=9820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}