{"id":9968,"date":"2014-11-18T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2014-11-18T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T11:00:06","slug":"funeral-for-field-marshal-lord-roberts-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/funeral-for-field-marshal-lord-roberts-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNERAL FOR FIELD MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS IN FRANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Wednesday, November 18, 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> \u201cFrost and very cold. Drill\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;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/18-Nov-14_B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9770\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/18-Nov-14_B.png\" alt=\"18 Nov 14_B\" width=\"936\" height=\"459\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/18-Nov-14_A.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9769 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/18-Nov-14_A-189x300.png\" alt=\"18 Nov 14_A\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0\u201cLondon, November 18th. \u00a0The Official Press Bureau gives a touching account of the funeral services for Field Marshal Lord Roberts at the Headquarters of the British Army in France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The route of the cortege from the house where he died to the market square where the funeral service was held says the Press Bureau\u2019s statement \u201cwas lined with British and French troops. \u00a0The coffin was borne on a gun-carriage. \u00a0It was an impressive ceremony. \u00a0The guards of honour were Indian and British troops.<\/p>\n<p>To the wail of \u2018The Flowers of the Forest\u2019 from the Pipers, the procession moved slowly through double ranks of soldiers with arms reversed. \u00a0General Officers acted as pall bearers. Those following the casket included representatives of King Albert and President Poincare; the Prince of Wales, and Prince Arthur of Connaught, and General French.<\/p>\n<p>The simple funeral service was conducted by Chaplain Anderson of the British forces. \u00a0At the conclusion of the service the British bugles rang out \u201cThe Last Post.\u201d \u00a0As the coffin was removed to a motor ambulance for conveyance to Boulogne, French trumpeters across the square blew a fanfare, and the guns of Lord Roberts old regiment roared out a last farewell.\u00a0A double rainbow gleamed, a mass of dark clouds and an aeroplane circling above, one of the aerial guard watching and protecting the procession, dipped in salute.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>[4]<strong> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<pre>[1]\u00a0<i>War Diary, 14<\/i><i>th<\/i><i> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/i>, Nov 18, 1914. \u00a0Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg\n\n[<\/a>2] The Dead Field Marshal Borne Through Troops,\u201d <i>The Montreal Daily Mail<\/i>, Montreal, Wednesday, November 18,1914, pg. 3, \u00a0col. 3.\n\n[3] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garenewing.co.uk\/angloafghanwar\/articles\/roberts_funeral.php\">http:\/\/www.garenewing.co.uk\/angloafghanwar\/articles\/roberts_funeral.php<\/a>\n\n[4] \u201cThe Dead Field Marshal Borne Through Troops,\u201d <i>The Montreal Daily Mail<\/i>, Montreal, Wednesday, November 18,1914, pg. 3, \u00a0col. 3.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, November 18, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cFrost and very cold. Drill\u201d \u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0\u201cLondon,<\/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-9968","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\/9968","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=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}