{"id":30391,"date":"2020-12-11T13:34:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/?p=30391"},"modified":"2021-02-24T18:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:11:18","slug":"annual-battlefield-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/annual-battlefield-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Visite annuelle du champ de bataille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaque ann\u00e9e, en f\u00e9vrier, le d\u00e9partement d\u2019histoire du Coll\u00e8ge militaire royal du Canada organise une visite de champs de bataille durant la semaine de rel\u00e2che. Ce voyage, inaugur\u00e9 en 2003 et financ\u00e9 presque exclusivement par des dons vers\u00e9s \u00e0 la Fondation des CMR depuis 2004, permet aux \u00e9l\u00e8ves-officiers de visiter des champs de bataille fran\u00e7ais et belges de la Premi\u00e8re Guerre mondiale et de la Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale, o\u00f9 des Canadiens ont combattu. Depuis 2003, il s\u2019agit d\u2019une des plus importantes activit\u00e9s du Coll\u00e8ge, pour laquelle l\u2019escadre des \u00e9l\u00e8ves-officiers montre un int\u00e9r\u00eat grandissant.<\/p>\n<p>La visite annuelle des champs de bataille donne aux \u00e9l\u00e8ves-officiers l\u2019occasion de sortir des salles de classe pour vivre une exp\u00e9rience d\u2019immersion permettant une compr\u00e9hension approfondie des r\u00e9cits de guerre et de l\u2019importance de ces sites historiques. En marchant sur les plages de Normandie, par exemple, les \u00e9l\u00e8ves-officiers saisissent toute l\u2019importance des gestes pos\u00e9s par nombre de soldats canadiens pour d\u00e9finir le Canada comme nation.<\/p>\n<p>Touring the old European battlefields of WWI and WWII is spectacular; however, what enhances the experience, even more, is the staff. RMC is the only University in Canada that has the ability to provide their own ex\/currently serving military WWI and WWII history experts to guide the Battlefield Tour. The breadth of experience and knowledge provided by each RMC professor is astounding, and their guidance throughout the experience is what makes the tour truly unique.<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la g\u00e9n\u00e9rosit\u00e9 de 5586 Ian et Rosemary Mottershead que les \u00e9tudiants du Coll\u00e8ge militaire royal ont acc\u00e8s \u00e0 ce voyage ann\u00e9e apr\u00e8s ann\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Battle-Field-Tour-Memorial.jpg\" alt=\"Battle field tour memorial | RMC Foundations\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Battle-Field-Tour-Memorial.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Battle-Field-Tour-Memorial-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/> \u00ab Les souvenirs de ce voyage sont encore frais \u00e0 mon esprit. \u00c7a a \u00e9t\u00e9 un moment marquant, et m\u00eame le point culminant, de ma formation au CMR. Il a fa\u00e7onn\u00e9 la personne que je suis devenu. Cette exp\u00e9rience a \u00e9t\u00e9 si importante pour moi que, pendant mes vacances lors de mon d\u00e9ploiement en Afghanistan, j\u2019ai amen\u00e9 ma famille voir bon nombre des sites que nous avions visit\u00e9s. \u00bb \u2013 23241 Craig Scott, promotion de 2005<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u00ab La visite de champs de bataille du CMR de 2019 a permis \u00e0 des \u00e9l\u00e8ves-officiers de se rappeler l\u2019h\u00e9ritage qu\u2019ils honorent chaque jour en portant l\u2019uniforme.  Je veux absolument remercier la Fondation, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 laquelle la devise V\u00e9rit\u00e9, devoir, vaillance a pris pour moi un sens nouveau, plus profond que jamais. \u00bb  \u2013 27847 Andr\u00e9 Turenne, promotion de 2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RMC History Department embarks on the Annual Battlefield Tour over reading week each February. This tour, established in 2003, and almost exclusively funded through donations to the RMC Foundation since 2004, allows Cadets to tour First and Second World War Canadian Battlefields in France and Belgium. Since 2003 this tour has become a major&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380,381],"tags":[400,388,389],"class_list":["post-30391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donor-impact","category-news","tag-academic","tag-battlefield-tour","tag-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmcalumni.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}