{"id":9889,"date":"2014-11-08T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2014-11-08T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T11:00:04","slug":"rmr-settling-down-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-settling-down-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR SETTLING DOWN TO WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sunday, November 8, 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> \u201cDuty Battalion.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9817&amp;preview=true#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9761\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/08-Nov-14.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9761 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/08-Nov-14-300x217.png\" alt=\"08 Nov 14\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Washing clothes &#8211; Salisbury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0Writing earlier in the week, the London correspondent of The Globe reported: &#8211; \u201cThe task of unloading the troop ships and transporting the Canadian Soldiers and stores to Salisbury Plain has practically been completed, and the men are already settling down to the hard work of training preparatory to their dispatch to the fields of war. Great as was the camp at Valcartier, it is not to be compared to Salisbury, where, in addition to over thirty thousand troops from Canada, there are no less than two hundred thousand British troops, and there is room for thousands more.\u00a0 The Canadian contingent is quartered in four different camps, divisional headquarters being at Bustard, which is about five miles from Amesbury railway station, while the rest of the Canadian troops are chiefly at West Down North, West Down South and Pond Farm, all of which are several miles apart. While having many advantages, the character of the Salisbury country is such that it does not offer the same opportunity for tactical schemes as might be wished.\u00a0 While there are some hills, the land for the most part is flat, and it would be possible to see a body of troops from a great distance.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1] War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Nov 8, 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]\u00a0 Canadian War Museum Photo Archives 52K 13, # 19790262-020\n\n[3]\u00a0\u00a0 William Marchington, \u201cSETTLING TO WORK ON SALISBURY PLAIN: Canadians Alongside 200,000 British Soldiers GEN. ALDERSON POPULAR Puts Men on Their Honor for Good Behavior--A Healthy Lot of Men--Col. Williams May be Camp Commandant--Three Fatalities.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/hnpglobeandmail\/pubidlinkhandler\/sng\/pubtitle\/The+Globe+$281844-1936$29\/$N\/1396352\/DocView\/1356426613\/abstract\/BF80F3C97B4C4047PQ\/3?accountid=14369\"><em>The Globe (1844-1936)<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Toronto, Ontario, Wednesday, November 4, 1914, pg. 3, col. 1.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, November 8, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDuty Battalion.\u201d \u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0Writing earlier in the<\/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-9889","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\/9889","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=9889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}