{"id":9918,"date":"2014-11-10T10:44:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9918"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:44:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:44:18","slug":"rmr-featured-in-ottawa-citizen-article-about-great-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmr-featured-in-ottawa-citizen-article-about-great-war\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR featured in Ottawa Citizen article about Great War"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article about the RMR in WW1 was originally published in the Ottawa Citizen on 08 November 2014, written by Bruce Deachman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It details the action at Mount Sorrel, in which the RMR suffered the most deaths in a single day: 119<\/p>\n

The following is from the War Diaries of the 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion (RMR) with which Private Albert Croteau served, during the Battle of Mount Sorrel, June 3 and 4, 1916. Croteau suffered a gunshot wound to the back of his right thigh on June 3.<\/p>\n

\"Mount<\/a>
PHOTO: Canada. Dept. of National Defence\/Library, Archives Canada Mount Sorrel with Armagh House in the foreground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAt 8.17 A.M. word was received to advance. Under Major Powell the whole Battalion swept forward. They were met with a concentrated machine gun and rifle fire from the enemy\u2019s trenches and an almost incredible weight of artillery was brought to bear upon them. Steadily they went forward, the lines reforming automatically as the growing number of casualties robbed the first lines of their effectives. For almost three hundred yards they continued towards the German trenches, one Officer, Lieut. Major with a small following actually reaching the German Line, other parties advancing right up to his wire. Major Powell finding his strength reduced to one third and losing heavily at every step then stopped the advance and ordered the Battalion to dig in where it stood. Under continuous heavy fire of all descriptions the Battalion established a line here, dug in and held it all day until relieved early the following morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cMajor Powell kept charge of the firing line, although wounded, until it appeared to be established, when he handed over to Lieut. R.A. Pelletier, who although blown up twice and once rendered unconscious for a short time kept the command, and handed over only to the relieving Battalion. No communication with Headquarters was possible for over three hours. Through the day the firing line was never stronger than about 80 of all ranks with small detached parties on the flanks, the whole representing what remained of the Battalion.<\/p>\n

\"Lieutenant<\/a>
Lieutenant A.F. Major<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOf the Officers of Companies and Details taking part in the advance every one was either killed, wounded, blown up or buried by shells. Major Powell, Capt. C.B. Price, Lieut. Lugar, Lieut. Worrall, Lieut. Evans, Lieut. Torrance, Lieut. O\u2019Brien, Lieut. Rexford, Lieut. MacKenzie, Lieut. Owen, Lieut. Walker and Lieut. Marion were all wounded. Capt. E.A. Whitehead, Lieut. A.F. Major and Lieut. M.M. Grondin were killed. Capt. Frost was twice blown up by shells but remained on duty. Lieut. Pelletier had a similar experience and also remained so did Lieut. Nesbitt who was partially buried. Lieut. Beaton had a shell splinter in his shoulder but did not leave his post nor did Lieut. McKenna wounded in the hand. Major G. McCombe, Capt. F.W. Utton and Lieut. C.G. Power came through unscathed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAltogether the Battalion lost in this advance 379 all ranks.<\/p>\n

\"Captain<\/a>
Captain E.A. Whitehead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt had achieved what would have been a fine feat for the best troops in the World. The men had come up to unknown ground on an unknown task through miles of country under intermittent shellfire without any loss of morale. They had advanced through two of the most severe barrages of artillery fire possible to imagine. They has established a line through a bad gap in our defences under the same conditions; prevented any further advance of the enemy to the key of the salient; had reclaimed a large portion of ground written off as lost and had established a line from which a successful attack on the lost positions could be and was eventually launched.<\/p>\n

\"Lieutenant<\/a>
Lieutenant M.M. Grondin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe Batallion was relieved early in the morning of June 4th and marched to Dominion Lines. On the following afternoon they were ordered to Patricia Lines. Lieut. Beaton and Lieut. Nesbitt responded to a call from Col. Clark for volunteers to go back and bury the dead. They took fifty other ranks with them, and did much valuable work in burial of the dead and reclaiming the wounded who had been overlooked, on that night June 4\/5th. This party suffered three killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

RMR’s Roll of Honour<\/strong><\/span>: 119 Dead<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From Saturday, June 3, 1916<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Officers (3)<\/span><\/p>\n

Lieutenant Maurice Marcel Grondin K in A
\nLieutenant Albert Frederick Major K in A
\nCaptain Edward Ashworth Whitehead K in A<\/p>\n

Sergeants (9)<\/span>
\n26152 Company Sergeant-Major George Armstrong K in A
\n26394 Company Sergeant-Major Ludovic Duhamel K in A
\n26029 Company Sergeant-Major Richard William Rankin K in A
\n25934 Sergeant John Douglas Campbell K in A
\n404372 Sergeant Albert Henry Hunt K in A
\n63247 Lance Sergeant Thomas John Clinch K in A
\n26217 Sergeant Ernest William King K in A
\n25656 Lance Sergeant Alexander Wallis K in A
\n25900 Sergeant Alexander Wells K in A<\/p>\n

OR\u2019s (107)<\/span>
\n448002 Private David Brown Adams K in A
\n127376 Private Thomas F. Adcock K in A
\n412081 Private William James Anderson Missing
\n404257 Private Walter Bagshaw K in A
\n435042 Private Joe Barraclough K in A<\/p>\n

444178 Private Alexander Basque K in A
\n63137 Private John Robert Bell K in A
\n444234 Private William Nobles Belyea K in A
\n404263 Lance Corporal Percy Frank Bennett K in A
\n164039 Private John Boute K in A
\n448035 Lance Corporal John Brooks K in A
\n163536 Private Alfred Carroll Burritt K in A
\n457243 Private John Caine K in A
\n448042 Private Alfred Carey K in A
\n140039 Private Andrew Walker Clarke Missing
\n404297 Private Reuben Clayton Missing
\n22981 Private Frank Clifford K in A
\n22855 Private John James Collins K in A
\n444073 Private Walter Vincent Cook K in A
\n451170 Private Charles William Archibald Corin K in A
\n444197 Private George Court K in A
\n140048 Private William Crane K in A
\n26538 Private Arthur Cusson K in A
\n412215 Private William Desilest K in A
\n444130 Lance Corporal Roy B. Dick K in A
\n63253 Lance Corporal Arthur Carmichael Drysdale K in A
\n164076 Private Clarence Glee Eggleton K in A
\n163319 Private Walter English K in A
\n451835 Corporal Wilbert Robinson Ferguson K in A
\n416217 Private Jean Fiset K in A
\n444358 Private Charles Adrian Fisher K in A
\n448091 Private Patrick Fitzpatrick K in A
\n25582 Private Frank Flanagan K in A
\n404339 Private Benjamin Forbes Missing
\n25714 Lance Corporal William Henry Fry K in A
\n457812 Private James Gaboury Missing
\n26552 Private Isadore Gaudreau Missing
\n23552 Corporal Grantley Gilbert K in A
\n412742 Private Thomas Edgar Greenfield K in A
\n63398 Lance Corporal George H. Gregory K in A
\n444075 Lance Corporal Walter Lawson Hanson K in A
\n63442 Lance Corporal Arthur Walter Hazelgrove K in A
\n139606 Private Mark Humphreys K in A
\n25734 Private John Hempenstall Kearney K in A
\n144183 Private Wilbrod Lecraw K in A
\n23666 Private Alfred Lemay K in A
\n23293 Private Fred H. Madden K in A
\n410021 Private Francis Lorne May K in A
\n444157 Private Harry Carruthers McArthur K in A
\n404410 Private William McCurdie K in A
\n23162 Private Malcolm McDonald K in A<\/p>\n

416393 Private Eusebe McDuff Missing
\n140141 Private Walter McFarland K in A
\n23292 Private Peter Joseph McKenna K in A
\n444213 Private Charles McLean K in A
\n163392 Private Samuel McMahon K in A
\n23683 Private Henry Mitchell K in A
\n412793 Private Stanley Mitchell K in A
\n416904 Private Clinton Mongeau K in A
\n63616 Private Richard Moody K in A
\n64032 Private John Moran K in A
\n144053 Private Alfred Morin K in A
\n457406 Private Archibald Munn K in A
\n412802 Private Harold Mustchin K in A
\n444079 Lance Corporal George Howard Nesbitt K in A
\n404416 Private Herbert Nuttall K in A
\n46872 Private Daniel O\u2019Kane K in A
\n25625 Private William Officer Missing
\n26490 Private Joseph Paradis K in A
\n444223 Private George William Paul K in A
\n451911 Private Albert Penfold K in A
\n448198 Private Simeon Povar K in A
\n444163 Private Bertholomew Preshong Missing
\n26117 Private Arthur George Raby K in A
\n458065 Private Walter Reid K in A
\n404445 Private John Cameron Robertson K in A
\n457275 Corporal Walter Rowbotham K in A
\n448213 Private Donat Roy Missing
\n444215 Private Ernest Walter Saunders Missing
\n603075 Private Theodore Schuler K in A
\n26635 Corporal Robert Scott, MM K in A
\n412158 Private Harman Joseph Simmons K in A
\n126973 Private Roderick Alexander Mackay Smith K in A
\n404460 Private Norman Southorn K in A
\n404462 Private George Speers K in A
\n46540 Private Albert Ernest Spriggs K in A
\n435451 Private Edwin Leon Spurr K in A
\n25645 Private George Alexander Stewart K in A
\n444248 Private Ralph Burns Stuart K in A
\n444753 Private Robert William Tardy Missing
\n444129 Private Nectaire Theriault Missing
\n602986 Private Edward Turner Missing
\n457398 Private John H. Walker K in A
\n602874 Private Frederick Wiffin K in A
\n412864 Private William Dempey Woodrow K in A
\n404499 Private Robert James Woodwards K in A
\n602490 Private Frederick Ziegler K in A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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