{"id":9972,"date":"2014-11-19T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2014-11-19T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:00:30","slug":"rmrs-attend-memorial-service-for-earl-roberts-in-salisbury-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/rmrs-attend-memorial-service-for-earl-roberts-in-salisbury-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"RMR&#039;s attend memorial service for Earl Roberts in Salisbury Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thursday, November 19, 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> \u201cFine and cold. \u00a0Detachment of 1 N.C.O. and 25 men under command of Lieut. English, and with Lt.-Col. Burland representing Battn. H.Q. attended memorial service for Earl Roberts in Salisbury Cathedral.\u201d \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9817&amp;preview=true#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9771\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/19-Nov-14.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9771 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/19-Nov-14-150x150.png\" alt=\"Salisbury Cathedral\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Salisbury Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: \u00a0\u201cLondon. \u00a0Nov. 19. \u00a0(Canadian Associated Cable) \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0Six hundred members of the Canadian contingent attended the memorial service at Salisbury Cathedral to-day in honour of the late Lord Roberts. \u00a0The divisional staff was largely represented, and the proceedings were most impressive. \u00a0Hon. G.H. Perley** attended the St. Paul\u2019s service, where several Canadian officers on leave were also present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lying_in_state\">lying in state<\/a> in Westminster Hall, London, (one of two non-Royals to do so during the 20th century, the other being <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winston_Churchill\">Sir Winston Churchill<\/a>), Lord Roberts was given a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/State_funeral\">state funeral<\/a> and was buried in St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, in the presence of the King.<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">* \u00a0\u00a0Lieutenant Alfred Soden English.<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0<i>War Diary, 14<\/i><i>th<\/i><i> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/i>, Nov 19, 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] <a href=\"http:\/\/someinterestingfacts.net\/history-of-salisbury-cathedral\/\">http:\/\/someinterestingfacts.net\/history-of-salisbury-cathedral\/<\/a> \u00a0\n\n[3] \u201cAttended Services In Honour of Roberts,\u201d <i>The Montreal Daily Mail<\/i>, Montreal, Quebec, Friday, November 20, 1914, pg,5 \u00a0col. 2<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 19, 1914 Camp Salisbury Plain, West Down South The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cFine and cold. \u00a0Detachment of 1 N.C.O. and 25 men under command<\/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-9972","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\/9972","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=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}