{"id":9963,"date":"2014-11-16T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2014-11-16T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T11:00:29","slug":"wooden-huts-to-improve-life-for-rmrs-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wooden-huts-to-improve-life-for-rmrs-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Huts to Improve Life for RMR's in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, November 16, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n

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

The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDuty Battalion\u201d \u00a0[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBustard Camp, Salisbury, Eng., Nov 16. -The Princess Patricia\u2019s regiment left to-day for Winchester to join a British Division leaving shortly for the front.\u201d<\/p>\n

These would be the first Canadian troops to leave England for France to join the battle.<\/p>\n

\"16<\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: London, Nov 16. \u00a0Wooden winter quarters for the Canadian contingent are rapidly approaching completion at Lark\u2019s Hill. [sic] \u00a0Seeing that a frosty-edged wind sweeps over Salisbury Plain almost daily, the members naturally hail with delight the prospect of leaving tents for the more enduring habitations. \u00a0Men from the west don\u2019t mind the loneliness, although they say Salisbury Plain beats Calgary for that, and at Lark\u2019s Hill they will be a bit nearer such company as the thatched village of Thams, near Amesbury, can offer.<\/p>\n

What they abuse most heartily is the English damp, says the correspondent of The Manchester Guardian<\/i>, who gives a highly entertaining description of a visit to the camp. \u00a0Nevertheless, they are happy under canvas, in spite of a solid month of such dirty weather that they have often worn wet clothes for days. \u00a0You cannot mix with Canadians for long without being struck by the passionate loyalty of Canada. \u00a0\u201cThey all express loyalty, which is part of their love for Britain,\u201d continues this writer. \u00a0\u201cI did not find a single soldier who does not intend to return to Canada as soon as the war was over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday was a half-holiday in the camp, and noisy baseball games were going on in half a dozen places. \u00a0To an English observer the game looked like \u201ca violent form of rounders.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Bustard they dread the long, black evenings, and all praise Valcartier, which was lighted from end to end with electricity and fitted with open-air kinematograph shows, and rifle ranges three miles long. \u00a0There are the inevitable grumbles about food which arise from human weariness of stew and a yearning for more butter.\u201d \u00a0[4]<\/p>\n

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[1]\u00a0War Diary, 14<\/i>th<\/i> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/i>, Nov 16, 1914. \u00a0Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg\n\n[<\/a>2] William Marchington, Staff Correspondent, \u201cPrincess Patricia\u2019s Going to The Front,\u201d The Globe (1844-1936),<\/i> Toronto, Ontario, November 17, 1914, pg. 1, col. 5.\n\n[3] \u201cHuts Will Improve Life on Salisbury Plain ; A Frost Edged Wind Makes Soldiers Glad to Forsake The Tents,\u201d \u00a0The Globe (1844-1936),<\/i> Toronto, Ontario, November 17, 1914, pg. 13, col. 5\n\n[4] Ibid.<\/pre>\n
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