{"id":9935,"date":"2014-11-12T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9935"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:59:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:59:21","slug":"demon-booze-a-problem-for-canadians-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/demon-booze-a-problem-for-canadians-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon Booze A Problem For Canadians in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thursday, November 12, 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 and (bad) storm.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9817&amp;preview=true#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/12-Nov-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/12-Nov-14-300x160.png\" alt=\"12 Nov 14\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0\u201cOttawa, Nov 13.\u00a0 There have been fifteen new \u201ccasualties\u201d among the Canadian troops on Salisbury Plain.\u00a0 But the casualties are due to the common enemy of all mankind, and not to the Germans or Austrians.<\/p>\n<p>Too much British hospitality and too much firewater taken by some of the Canadian troops while on leave from camp in London or elsewhere have resulted in fifteen privates being dismissed from the ranks.\u00a0 Word to this effect was received here today, and the pay of the men has been stopped by the Militia Department.\u00a0 It is also stated that in a few cases lieutenants have been reduced in rank to sergeants for the same cause.<\/p>\n<p>These sporadic outbreaks of men on leave after the strict discipline of Valcartier and Salisbury have evidently caused General Alderson a little trouble.\u00a0 Hence his public request to the British public to stop treating the Canadian troops, with his added statement that unless more discretion is shown passes will have to be stopped entirely.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Nov 12 , 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\u00a0 \u201cFifteen Casualties Among The Canadians,\u201d Privates Dismissed Because Of Indulgence In Liquor \u2013 General\u2019s Warning,\u201d\u00a0 <em>The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Saturday, November 14, 1914, pg. 3, col. 3.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 12, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cRain and (bad) storm.\u201d \u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0\u201cOttawa, Nov<\/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-9935","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\/9935","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=9935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}