{"id":9940,"date":"2014-11-14T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9940"},"modified":"2014-11-14T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T11:00:57","slug":"canadian-soldiers-repudiate-complaints-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/canadian-soldiers-repudiate-complaints-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"CANADIAN SOLDIERS REPUDIATE COMPLAINTS IN 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Saturday, November 14, 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> \u201cSports day for men in the afternoon.\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: center;\">The Regimental history mentions that at a divisional field day General Alderson directed the proceedings by signals sounded on a huntsman\u2019s horn.\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0The Canadian news report from London this day reported \u2013 \u201cThe pioneers of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Brigade, have lost the regimental dog Buller, which has been ordered into quarantine.\u00a0 The pioneers are now appealing to English friends to find them another mascot.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY<\/strong><\/span>: \u00a0\u201cLondon, Nov. 15. \u2013 A communication subscribed to by a number of Canadian soldiers appears in the Saturday morning papers complaining of a wrong impression that has been spread about by the more \u201cchicken-hearted of the members\u201d that conditions at Salisbury Plain camp are far from satisfactory.\u00a0 \u201cIt is true,\u201d they say, \u201cthat they are not such as we should adopt for pleasure in times of peace, but have we not adopted them in grim earnest at a time of imperial danger for ourselves and all those with whom we have come in contact?\u00a0\u00a0 We most assuredly say that we are a great deal more comfortable and better off than most troops in England to-day.\u00a0 Our tents are not poor.\u00a0 We have three or four good blankets apiece, straw mattresses, pillows, and waterproof sheets.\u00a0 We have good greatcoats and an abundant supply of warm underclothing, sweaters, socks, helmets and boots.<\/p>\n<p>Finally we should like to say that Canadian troops arriving in England were given a reception that went to the hearts of us all, and particularly those who are Canadian-born and strangers in this country.\u00a0 This treatment has, we regret to say, been returned in a manner that may well bring the blush of shame to all those, happily in the great majority, who have come here not to picnic, but to undergo whatever might be necessary, to give up our comforts, or if need be, our lives in the service of the Empire.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Nov 14, 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 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. 19.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3]\u00a0 \u201cWith the Canadians on Salisbury Plain,\u201d <em>The Globe (1844-1936<\/em>), Toronto, Ontario, November 16, 1914, pg. 9.<\/pre>\n<pre>[4]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cCanadian Soldiers Repudiate the Wail:\u00a0 They sign Public Communication saying Salisbury Conditions are not so bad,\u201d <em>The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Monday, November 16, 1914:\u00a0 pg.13, col 1.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 14, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cSports day for men in the afternoon.\u201d \u00a0[1] The Regimental history mentions<\/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-9940","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\/9940","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=9940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}