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  • Another successful RMR Reunion Smoker!

    The RMR’s official birthday is 02 November, but in reality the first time that RMR troops formed up together on parade and referred to themselves as “The Royal Montreal Regiment” was in August…

  • RMR Cadets Setting the Standard

    ARTICLE FROM THE SUBURBAN, WEDNESDAY 19 AUGUST 2015, written by P.A. Sevigny It’s always a good day when you’re a 16- year-old army cadet and the commander of the Canadian Armed Forces…

  • RMR Command Team Visits Valcartier

    Valcartier, Quebec, 05 August 2015 – the Commanding Officer, LCol Paul Langlais, and Regimental Sergeant-Major, MWO David Cochrane, accompanied by the Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel, LCol (ret’d) Colin Robinson, visited the RMR soldiers undergoing…

  • PROFILE OF SERVICE: Corporal Erik Schneider is the RMR’s Top Rifle Shot in 2014-15

    The trophy for the Best Rifle Shot in The Royal Montreal Regiment (RMR) is awarded annually at the Church Parade to the soldier receiving the highest score on his/her annual Personal Weapons…

  • PROFILE OF SERVICE: PRIVATE DE LUTIS WINS THE MAJOR P.H. BARRE TROPHY (TOP RECRUIT) FOR 2015

    THE MAJOR P.H.  BARRE, ED, C ST S TROPHY (TOP RECRUIT) is awarded annually to the soldier receiving the highest ranking on his/her Basic Military Qualification / Soldier Qualification course.  The trophy…

  • Final Edition of “This Day In RMR History” Published Today

    Westmount, Quebec – 04 August 2015: The final post of “This Day In RMR History” was published today, twrapping up precisely one year of daily posts telling the story of the RMR’s first year of…

  • Final Post: This Day in RMR History

    Wednesday, August 4, 1915 Piggeries The Battalion War Diarist wrote nothing for this day: “Supplied working parties – 200 men for improvement of trenches etc. under Engineers.”[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: “From…

  • 14th BATTALION STRENGTH FLUCTUATION IN THE FIELD

    Tuesday, August 3, 1915 Piggeries The Battalion War Diarist wrote nothing for this day: “Supplied working parties – 200 men for improvement of trenches etc. under Engineers.”[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: The…

  • RMR Rotates Out of Trenches, Suffers More KIA

    Monday, August 2, 1915 Piggeries The Battalion War Diarist wrote nothing for this day: “8:00 p.m. Left trenches, went to Piggeries”[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY: On this day “Brig.-General Turner inspected the…

  • UNIFORMS OF THE RMR PART ONE: 1945-72

    By Buzz Bourdon (late the RMR, 1975-82) When the Royal Montreal Regiment resumed training in Montreal after the Second World War, its officers and soldiers wore exactly the same uniforms and equipment…