{"id":9899,"date":"2014-11-11T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2014-11-11T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:00:06","slug":"great-wind-storm-hits-camp-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/great-wind-storm-hits-camp-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"GREAT WIND STORM HITS CAMP in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 11, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n

Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South<\/em><\/p>\n

The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cMorning fine.\u00a0 Afternoon very windy; many tents blown down.\u201d \u00a0[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0\u201cOn the 11th<\/sup> a wind storm blew down most of the marquees and all of the divisional headquarters tents but one.\u00a0 Rain, fog, frost and mud, from which there was no respite, made life miserable for men and horses.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 [2]<\/a><\/p>\n

\"11<\/a>GREAT WIND STORM HITS CAMP:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cSalisbury Plain Thursday, Nov 12.\u00a0 Something approaching a cyclone struck the Canadian Camp last night, and the volunteers from the Dominion had a merry half-hour.\u00a0 Tents were torn to shreds, marquees were dashed to the ground, and valuable documents and papers were scattered to the four corners of the wind-swept plain.\u00a0 Of all the weather experienced by the Canadians since their arrival in Britain, this was the worst.\u00a0 The storm broke practically without warning, and in five minutes about the only marquee left standing at Divisional Headquarters was the post office, which members of the postal detachment saved by building a wall of heavy sacks around the tent.\u00a0 Not a single piece of mail matter was lost, the postmen having taken the precaution of placing everything in bags at the first sign of the gale.<\/p>\n

Considerable inconvenience will be caused by the loss of important papers that were blown away when the office of the administrative staff was wrecked.\u00a0 Just before the marquee gave away, officers, seeing that it could not last much longer, gathered up a lot of the documents that were lying about and carried them to the paymaster\u2019s office.\u00a0 Hardly had they completed their task when that marquee also was swept away.\u00a0 In other parts of the Canadian Camp nearly every unit of the force suffered loss of some kind.\u00a0 Orderly offices, mess tents and kitchens by the score were blown about as if they had been so much paper, and their contents were scattered in all directions.\u00a0 In the Ontario camp a sergeants mess tent crashed in as the men were sitting at their evening meal.\u00a0 Scores of the officers were compelled to tramp to adjacent villages for dinner, their canvas dining rooms having failed to live through the storm.\u00a0 Canada\u2019s soldiers are surely having a taste of all kinds of English weather, but they are taking the life easy and thanking their stars that yesterday\u2019s storm broke at six in the evening instead of at midnight.\u201d [4]<\/p>\n

[1] War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Nov 11, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]<\/a>\u00a0Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201cOfficial History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Vol. 1, Part 1,\u201d <\/em>\u00a0King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pg. 129.<\/pre>\n
[3]\u00a0William Marchington, \u201cCanadian Camp Swept By a Terrific Storm; Post Officer Was The Only Tent Left Standing.\u201d The Globe (1944-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, November 28, 1914, pg. 10.<\/pre>\n
[4]\u00a0Ibid<\/pre>\n
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