{"id":9977,"date":"2014-11-21T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2014-11-21T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:00:05","slug":"water-rationing-for-rmr-in-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/water-rationing-for-rmr-in-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Rationing for RMR in 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, November 21, 1914<\/em><\/p>\n

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

The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cDrill. Light rain.\u201d \u00a0[1]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Washing<\/a>
Washing up mess tins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cScanty water supply of the main camps was piped up to open reservoirs from pumping stations at wells or streamlets; as a rule there were but two taps in the lines of each battalion for all purposes. For each unit a marquee was provided for bathing and some used bell tents also, but the ration of fuel – 2 pounds wood and 1 pound coal per man until 21st November, with an added pound of wood thereafter – and the lack of boilers allowed little hot water.<\/p>\n

The equipment per battalion for the first two months was only six tubs, one forty gallon cistern, and a stove. The Southern Command fitted up the Old Corn Store in Salisbury – ten to fifteen miles from the camps – so that a man might have a hot bath for four pence, if he could find his way there between 5 and 8 p.m. on week days or on Sunday afternoon. Village washerwomen plied a lively trade, and enterprising laundry firms in Salisbury and even London made arrangements for collecting washing weekly by motor truck.<\/p>\n

Washing and bathing in rivers, streams or mist ponds and the watering of horses in the last, were strictly forbidden; reservoirs and pumping stations were out of bounds and under armed guard. Horse troughs connected to the camp water system were placed to serve a number of neighbouring units.\u201d \u00a0[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Nov 21, 1914.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089676.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/vimyridgehistory.com\/kit-1\/cda-rallies\/salisbury-plain\/images\/#gallery\/2198\/518\/0<\/pre>\n
[3]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Col. A.F. Duguid, \u201cOfficial History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919,<\/em> Vol. 1, Part 1, King\u2019s Printer, Ottawa, 1938, pp. 117-119.<\/pre>\n
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