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Enrolment Requirements

2008-11-21T00:17:58Z

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====3 Primary Criteria====

# Age;
# Citizenship;
# Education

=====Special Note=====

ONTARIO RESIDENTS

It is against the Law in Ontario to leave school before Graduating Grade 12 or 18 years of age.

====Officers====

# Must be a Canadian Citizen.
# Must have have a University Degree or University entrance-level courses and marks.
# Must be free of any Legal Obligations (fines, probations, etc).
# Must be 16 years of age with parental consent for Primary Reserves or 17 with parental consent for the Regular Force. (Note: Applicants to the RMC Jr program may be 16.)
# Must be medically fit for the trade.
# Must meet test standards.

====Non Commissioned Members====

# Must be a Canadian Citizen.
# Must have at least grade 10, grade 12 preferred.
# Must be free of any Legal Obligations (fines, probations, etc).
# Must be 16 years of age (or to turn before enrolled) with parental consent for Primary Reserves or 17 with parental consent for the Regular Force.
# Must be medically fit for the trade.
# Must meet test standards.

====Options====

# For answers to common questions, check the [http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,41136.0.html Recruiting FAQs].
# Still have questions? Search the [http://army.ca/forums/index.php/board,16.0 Army.ca Recruiting Forums].
# Questions unanswered? Ask on the [http://army.ca/forums/index.php/board,16.0 Army.ca Recruiting Forums].
# For official information, please see the [http://www.recruiting.forces.ca/ The Official Canadian Forces Recruiting Site].

For more information, please contact your local Recruiting Centre. Check the Yellow Pages under "Recruiting", www.forces.ca or call 1-800-856-8488 for your local recruiting centre.

====Cadet Service====
Former cadets can receive credit towards promotion in the [[Militia]] and [[Regular Force]]. Here is what the references have to say:

;From CFAO 6-1 -- ENROLMENT - REGULAR FORCE

:;RANK ON ENROLMENT

:9. Non-Commissioned Members. An applicant for enrolment as an NCM shall be enrolled in the rank of private with the status level of private (recruit) (Pte (R)), except as follows:

:A former cadet of any of the Canadian cadet organizations who has completed three years as a cadet within the previous five years, during which time the cadet has passed a six-week trade or specialty course, shall be enrolled as Pte (R) and be granted a time credit of 180 days for the purposes of determining the date on which the member will become eligible to be paid the rate of pay prescribed for a private, pay level 1, incentive pay category 1.

:Note - For Army cadets, qualification as Master Cadet, and for Air cadets, a flying scholarship or two completed summer camp courses, each of two weeks duration, will be considered equivalent to a six-week trade or specialty course. For Sea cadets, two completed summer camp courses will be considered equivalent to a six-week trade or specialty course.

;From CFAO 49-5 -- CAREER POLICY - NON-COMMISSIONED MEMBER -PRIMARY RESERVE

:3. On enrolment, re-enrolment or transfer, a member who has had former service in the Canadian Forces or in a cadet unit, or service with another country, may be granted a time credit for promotion to Cpl and above, in accordance with this paragraph and as determined by the enrolment authority pursuant to 49-11. The time credit or seniority granted shall apply only to the rank granted on enrolment as follows:

Former cadets of any of the Canadian Cadet organizations may be granted time credit for promotion in recognition of qualifications they have obtained prior to enrolment. The amount of credit shall be determined by CHQ.

;From CFAO 49-12 -- PROMOTION POLICY -OFFICERS -PRIMARY RESERVE ANNEX A -- MINIMUM QUALIFYING TIME IN RANK FOR ENTRY TO PROMOTION ZONE FOR NEXT HIGHER RANK

:2. Qualifying time for entry to the promotion zone for the next higher rank is reckoned from the date of seniority in the present rank, except that:

:cadets who have served a minimum of two years in the rank of warrant officer and above may be granted one year qualifying time in the rank of lieutenant for promotion to the rank of captain.

====Criminal Record====
Having a criminal record may or may not preclude a career in the Canadian Forces, either Regular or Reserve, as an NCM or an Officer. A pardon is not necessarily mandatory either. The CF requires applicants to be "of good character" and have no outstanding obligations to the legal system, such as :
* family court issues
* pending charges
* outstanding fines
* are on probation, parolem, etc.

A criminal record will be one of the facts considered when an application is submitted, as will the seriousness of the offence.

From the army.ca forum:
:''My own personal experience: I have a criminal record for impaired driving dating back to 1992, when I was 19. It did not keep me from joining the Reserves as an Officer. In addition, I am currently applying for transfer to the Reg Force, and my file will go before the selection board in May. Now, I was advised that although it will not automatically prevent me from being selected, it will be taken into account with all other facts in my file (education, experience, interview, etc.)''[http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,12896.0]

Another component of every application is a security check; entry into the officer ranks may require a higher security clearance than an NCM position, as well as the possible requirement of a pardon for all convictions, depending again on the seriousness of the offence.

== See Also: ==

* [[Physical Fitness Requirements]]

[[Category:Recruiting]]

Enrolment Requirements

2008-11-21T00:10:59Z

Conz:

====3 Primary Criteria====

# Age;
# Citizenship;
# Education

=====Special Note=====

ONTARIO RESIDENTS

It is against the Law in Ontario to leave school before Graduating Grade 12 or 18 years of age.

====Officers====

# Must be a Canadian Citizen.
# Must have have a University Degree or University entrance-level courses and marks.
# Must be free of any Legal Obligations (fines, probations, etc).
# Must be 16 years of age with parental consent for Primary Reserves or 17 with parental consent for the Regular Force. (Note: Applicants to the RMC Jr program may be 16.)
# Must be medically fit for the trade.
# Must meet test standards.

====Non Commissioned Members====

# Must be a Canadian Citizen.
# Must have at least grade 10, grade 12 preferred.
# Must be free of any Legal Obligations (fines, probations, etc).
# Must be 16 years of age (or to turn before enrolled) with parental consent for Primary Reserves or 17 with parental consent for the Regular Force.
# Must be medically fit for the trade.
# Must meet test standards.

====Options====

# For answers to common questions, check the [http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,41136.0.html Recruiting FAQs].
# Still have questions? Search the [http://army.ca/forums/index.php/board,16.0 Army.ca Recruiting Forums].
# Questions unanswered? Ask on the [http://army.ca/forums/index.php/board,16.0 Army.ca Recruiting Forums].
# For official information, please see the [http://www.recruiting.forces.ca/ The Official Canadian Forces Recruiting Site].

For more information, please contact your local Recruiting Centre. Check the Yellow Pages under "Recruiting", or call 1-800-856-8488 for your local recruiting centre.

====Cadet Service====
Former cadets can receive credit towards promotion in the [[Militia]] and [[Regular Force]]. Here is what the references have to say:

;From CFAO 6-1 -- ENROLMENT - REGULAR FORCE

:;RANK ON ENROLMENT

:9. Non-Commissioned Members. An applicant for enrolment as an NCM shall be enrolled in the rank of private with the status level of private (recruit) (Pte (R)), except as follows:

:A former cadet of any of the Canadian cadet organizations who has completed three years as a cadet within the previous five years, during which time the cadet has passed a six-week trade or specialty course, shall be enrolled as Pte (R) and be granted a time credit of 180 days for the purposes of determining the date on which the member will become eligible to be paid the rate of pay prescribed for a private, pay level 1, incentive pay category 1.

:Note - For Army cadets, qualification as Master Cadet, and for Air cadets, a flying scholarship or two completed summer camp courses, each of two weeks duration, will be considered equivalent to a six-week trade or specialty course. For Sea cadets, two completed summer camp courses will be considered equivalent to a six-week trade or specialty course.

;From CFAO 49-5 -- CAREER POLICY - NON-COMMISSIONED MEMBER -PRIMARY RESERVE

:3. On enrolment, re-enrolment or transfer, a member who has had former service in the Canadian Forces or in a cadet unit, or service with another country, may be granted a time credit for promotion to Cpl and above, in accordance with this paragraph and as determined by the enrolment authority pursuant to 49-11. The time credit or seniority granted shall apply only to the rank granted on enrolment as follows:

Former cadets of any of the Canadian Cadet organizations may be granted time credit for promotion in recognition of qualifications they have obtained prior to enrolment. The amount of credit shall be determined by CHQ.

;From CFAO 49-12 -- PROMOTION POLICY -OFFICERS -PRIMARY RESERVE ANNEX A -- MINIMUM QUALIFYING TIME IN RANK FOR ENTRY TO PROMOTION ZONE FOR NEXT HIGHER RANK

:2. Qualifying time for entry to the promotion zone for the next higher rank is reckoned from the date of seniority in the present rank, except that:

:cadets who have served a minimum of two years in the rank of warrant officer and above may be granted one year qualifying time in the rank of lieutenant for promotion to the rank of captain.

====Criminal Record====
Having a criminal record may or may not preclude a career in the Canadian Forces, either Regular or Reserve, as an NCM or an Officer. A pardon is not necessarily mandatory either. The CF requires applicants to be "of good character" and have no outstanding obligations to the legal system, such as :
* family court issues
* pending charges
* outstanding fines
* are on probation, parolem, etc.

A criminal record will be one of the facts considered when an application is submitted, as will the seriousness of the offence.

From the army.ca forum:
:''My own personal experience: I have a criminal record for impaired driving dating back to 1992, when I was 19. It did not keep me from joining the Reserves as an Officer. In addition, I am currently applying for transfer to the Reg Force, and my file will go before the selection board in May. Now, I was advised that although it will not automatically prevent me from being selected, it will be taken into account with all other facts in my file (education, experience, interview, etc.)''[http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,12896.0]

Another component of every application is a security check; entry into the officer ranks may require a higher security clearance than an NCM position, as well as the possible requirement of a pardon for all convictions, depending again on the seriousness of the offence.

== See Also: ==

* [[Physical Fitness Requirements]]

[[Category:Recruiting]]

Main Page

2008-10-04T12:42:56Z

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2008-10-04T12:40:58Z

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* [[Foreign Militaries]]
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MOSID and MOC

2008-04-14T16:23:25Z

Conz: New page: = MOSID and MOC (Including VIE)= =='''VARIABLE INITIAL ENGAGEMENT LENGTHS BY OCCUPATION - NCMs'''== ===MOSID - MOC - DESCRIPTION - VIE LENGTH=== 00005 - 011 - CRMN - VIE 5...

= MOSID and MOC (Including VIE)=

=='''VARIABLE INITIAL ENGAGEMENT LENGTHS BY OCCUPATION - NCMs'''==

===MOSID - MOC - DESCRIPTION - VIE LENGTH===

00005 - 011 - CRMN - VIE 5

00008 - 021 - ARTYMN - VIE 3

00009 - 022 - ARTYMN - AD - VIE 3

00010 - 031 - INFMN - VIE 3

00339 - 043 - CBT ENGR - VIE 5

00015 - 052 - LMN - VIE 4

00017 - 065 - NW TECH/NCSTTP - VIE 4/VIE 6

00019 - 081 - AES OP/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00021 - 091 - FLT ENGR/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00099 - 111 - INT OP/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00100 - 121 - MET TECH - VIE 5

00101 - 131 - SAR TECH/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00105 - 181 - BOSN - VIE 4

00109 - 226 - ATIS TECH - VIE 5

00110 - 227 - LCIS TECH - VIE 4

00114 - 275 - NCI OP - VIE 4

00115 - 276 - NES OP - VIE 4

00116 - 283 - NE TECH(A)/NCSTTP - VIE 4

00117 - 284 - NE TECH(C)/NCSTTP - VIE 4

00118 - 285 - NE TECH(T)/NCSTTP - VIE 4

00119 - 286 - NE TECH(M)/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00120 - 291 - COMM RSCH - VIE 4

00121 - 312 - MAR ENG MECH/METTP - VIE 4/VIE 6

00122 - 313 - MAR ENG TECH/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00123 - 314 - MAR ENG ART/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00124 - 321 - H TECH - VIE 4

00125 - 331 - E TECH/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00126 - 332 - MAR EL - VIE 4

00129 - 411 - VEH TECH - VIE 4

00130 - 421 - W TECH L - VIE 4

00134 - 441 - MAT TECH - VIE 4

00135 - 514 - AVN TECH - VIE 5

00136 - 526 - AVS TECH - VIE 5

00137 - 541 - IMAGE TECH - VIE 5

00138 - 565 - ACS TECH - VIE 5

00149 - 651 - FIRE FTR - VIE 5

00152 - 714 - MLAB TECH - VIE 4

00153 - 715 - MRAD TECH - VIE 4

00155 - 718 - BE TECH - VIE 4

00161 - 811 - MP - VIE 5

00164 - 861 - COOK - VIE 4

00165 - 862 - STWD - VIE 4

00166 - 871 - MUSCN - VIE 4

00167 - 881 - POST CLK - VIE 4

00168 - 911 - SUP TECH - VIE 3

00169 - 921 - AMMO TECH/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00170 - 933 - TFC TECH - VIE 4

00171 - 935 - MSE OP - VIE 4

00238 - 142 - GEO TECH/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00298 - 836 - RMS CLK - VIE 3

00299 - 277 - NAV COMM - VIE 4

00301 - 641 - RM TECH - VIE 5

00302 - 642 - ED TECH - VIE 5

00303 - 643 - EGS TECH - VIE 5

00304 - 646 - PH TECH - VIE 5

00305 - 647 - WFE TECH - VIE 5

00306 - 648 - CONST TECH - VIE 5

00307 - 649 - CE SUPT/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00322 - 833 - CRT RPTR/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00324 - 278 - SONAR OP - VIE 4

00327 - 434 - FCS TECH - VIE 4

00329 - 215 - SIG OP - VIE 4

00334 - 737 - MED TECH - VIE 6

00335 - 738 - DENT TECH - VIE 5

00337 - 169/170 AC OP - VIE 5

00339 - 043 - CBT ENGR - VIE 5

00342 - 341/342 - CL DVR/Receptor MOC - No VIE

00343 - 532 - NDT TECH/Receptor MOC - No VIE

=='''VARIABLE INITIAL ENGAGEMENT LENGTHS BY OCCUPATION - OFFICERS'''==

===MOSID - MOC - DESCRIPTION - ENTRY - VIE LENGTH===

00178 - 21 - ARMD - DEO/ROTP - VIE 9/VIE 13

00179 - 22 - ARTY - DEO/ROTP - VIE 9/VIE 13

00180 - 23 - INF - DEO/ROTP - VIE 9/VIE 13

00181 - 24 - ENGR - DEO/ROTP - VIE 9/VIE 13

00182 - 31 - ANAV - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 9

00183 - 32 - PLT - DEO/ROTP - VIE 9/VIE 12

00184 - 39 - AEC - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 10

00185 - 41 - AERE - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 10

00187 - 43 - EME - DEO/ROTP - VIE 9/VIE 13

00189 - 46 - AF ENGR - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 10

00190 - 49 - PHY TH - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 9

00191 - 51 - DENT - DEO/ROTP - VIE 4/VIE 10

00192 - 48 - HCA - DEO/ROTP - VIE 9/VIE 13

00193 - 52 - HSO Receptor MOC - No VIE

00194 - 54 - PHARM - DEO/ROTP - VIE 4/VIE 9

00195 - 57 - NUR - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 10

00196 - 55 - MED - DEO/MOTP - VIE 5/VIE 12

00197 - 56 - BIO - DEO - VIE 6

00198 - 58 - SOCW - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 9

00200 - 61 - CHAP(P) DEO/MCTP - VIE 6/VIE 10

00201 - 62 - CHAP(RC) - DEO/CTP - VIE 6/VIE 10

00203 - 66 - PAFF - DEO - VIE 6

00204 - 67 - LEGAL - DEO/MLTP - VIE 4/VIE 13

00207 - 71 - MARS - DEO/ROTP - VIE 8/VIE 12

00208 - 72 - PSEL - DEO - VIE 6

00210 - 75 - MUSC Receptor MOC - No VIE

00211 - 74 - TRG DEV - DEO - VIE 6

00213 - 82 - INT Receptor MOC - No VIE

00214 - 81 - MPO - DEO/ROTP - VIE 9/VIE 13

00328 - 78 - LOG - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 10

00340 - 83 - CELE (AIR) - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 9

00341 - 84 - SIGS - DEO/ROTP - VIE 9/VIE 13

00344 - 87 - NCS ENG - DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 10

00345 - 88 - MS ENG DEO/ROTP - VIE 6/VIE 10

00346 - 89 - NAV ENG Receptor MOC - No VIE

The Canadian Forces

2008-04-14T15:02:11Z

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== General ==
On February 1, 1968, the Canadian Forces Reorganization Act took effect, amalgamating [[the Canadian Army]], [[the Royal Canadian Navy]] and [[the Royal Canadian Air Force]] to form the Canadian Forces (the CF) as we know it today.

The fundamental goal of [[The Department of National Defence|DND]] and the CF is to protect [[Canada]], and Canadian interests and values, while contributing to international peace and security.

== Organization of the Canadian Forces ==

* [[NDHQ|National Defence Headquarters]]
* [[CEFCOM]]
* [[Canada Command]]
* [[Maritime Command ]]
* [[Land Force Command ]]
* [[Air Command]]
* [[Canadian Special Operations Force Command]]
* [[Canadian Defence Acadamy]]

== Components of the Canadian Forces ==
* [[Regular Force]]
* [[Reserve Force]]

The Reserve Force consists of four sub-components ([[QR&O]] 2.034 refers):
** [[Primary Reserve]]
** [[Supplementary Reserve]]
** [[Canadian Rangers]]
** [[CIC|Cadet Instructor Cadre]]

* [[Special Force]]

== CF Rank & Hierarchy ==
* [[Rank Structure of the CF]]
* [[Staff Organization]]
* [[MOSID and MOC]]

==Historical Background==
*[[Pre "Unification" Canadian Military ]]
*[["Unification" and the creation of the Canadian Forces]]
*[[Canadian Military History|Detailed Canadian Military History]]

[[Category: Canadian Forces| ]]

CF Expres

2007-01-17T03:05:53Z

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'''Canadian Forces Expres Test'''

*[[Minimum Physical Fitness Standards]]
*[[Incentive Exempt Standards]]

Physical Fitness

2007-01-17T03:01:49Z

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*[[DOAD 5023.0 Universality of service]]
*[[DOAD 5023.1 Minimum Operational Standards Related to Universality of Service]]
*[[DOAD 5023.2 Physical fitness program]]
*[[CF Expres]]

RCD REGIMENTAL COMMANDING OFFICERS

2006-09-01T02:06:47Z

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== REGIMENTAL COMMANDING OFFICERS ==
21 Dec 1883 - 1 Nov 1895 - J.F. Turnbull

2 Nov 1895 - 31 Mar 1907 - F.L. Lessard, CB

1 Apr 1907 - 30 Nov 1912 - V.A.S. Williams, CMG, ADC

1 Dec 1912 - 14 Mar 1917 - C.N. Nelles

15 Mar 1917 - 9 Oct 1918 - C.T. Van Staubenzee, MID

11 Oct 1918 - 2 Apr 1919 - T.R.G. Newcomen, MC

3 Apr 1919 - 17 Jun 1919 - W.H. Bell, DSO, MID

18 Jun 1919 - 2 Feb 1920 - A. McMillan, DSO

3 Feb 1920 - 30 Sep 1924 - F. Gilman, DSO

1 Oct 1924 - 2 Jun 1927 - W.H. Bell, DSO, MID

3 Jun 1927 - 17 Nov 1931 - D.B. Bowie, DSO (Major)

18 Nov 1931 - 31 Oct 1936 - R.S. Timmis, DSO

1 Nov 1936 - 30 Jun 1941 - E.L. Caldwell, MID

1 Jul 1941 - 13 Jul 1941 - R. Moss, MC (Major)

14 Jul 1941 - 1 Aug 1941 - J.H. Larocque, CD (Major)

2 Aug 1941 - 12 Feb 1942 - W.E. Gillespie

13 Feb 1942 - 22 Jun 1942 - J.D.B. Smith, CBE, DSO, CD

29 Jun 1942 - 13 Feb 1944 - J.F. Bingham, OBE, MID

14 Feb 1944 - 5 Nov 1945 - K.D. Landell, DSO

6 Nov 1945 - 12 Dec 1945 - J.P. Gautier, DSO, CD (Major)

13 Dec 1945 - 6 Apr 1946 - J.E. Fuger (Major)

9 Apr 1946 - 9 Jan 1949 - H.A. Phillips, OBE, CD

10 Jan 1949 - 21 May 1951 - G.J.H. Wattsford, CD

22 May 1951 - 6 Dec 1953 - J.F. Merner, CD

7 Dec 1953 - 6 Sep 1956 - E.A.C. Amy, DSO, OBE, MC, CD

7 Sep 1956 - 8 Mar 1959 - A.L. Brady, DSO, CD

9 Mar 1959 - 18 Jan 1961 - J.S. Ussher, CD

19 Jan 1961 - 8 Aug 1963 - M.H. Bateman, CD

9 Aug 1963 - 2 Aug 1965 - P.V.B. Grieve, CD

3 Aug 1965 - 21 Aug 1967 - W.T.E. Finan, CD

22 Aug 1967 - 3 Aug 1969 - C.G. Kitchen, CD

4 Aug 1969 - 14 Jun 1970 - R.D. Gross, CD

15 Jun 1970 - 9 Jul 1972 - P.H.C. Carew, CD

10 Jul 1970 - 11 Jul 1974 - R.J. Brown, CD

12 Jul 1974 - 10 Jul 1976 - J.K. Dangerfield, CD

11 Jul 1976 - 11 Jul 1978 - C. Milner, CD

12 Jul 1978 - 26 Jun 1980 - G.J. O'Connor, CD

27 Jun 1980 - 25 Jun 1982 - C.J. Addy, CD

25 Jun 1982 - 22 Jun 1984 - D.M. Dean, CD

22 Jun 1984 - 25 Jun 1986 - D.J. Graham, CD

25 Jun 1986 - 29 Jun 1988 - R.G. Meating, CD

29 Jun 1988 - 20 Jul 1990 - M.W. Appleton, CD

20 Jul 1990 - 26 Jun 1992 - R.J. Hillier, CMM, CD

26 Jun 1992 - 18 Jun 1994 - M.G. Macdonald, MBE,CD

18 Jun 1994 - 27 Jun 1996 - W.N. Brough, CD

27 Jun 1996 - 27 Jun 1998 - W.J. Natynczyk, CD

27 Jun 1998 - 27 Jun 2000 - P.J. Atkinson, CD

27 Jun 2000 - 27 Jun 2002 - M.D. Kampman, CD

27 Jun 2002 - 27 Jun 2004 - D. Milner, CD

27 Jun 2004 - 24 Jun 2006 - L.E. Thomas, CD

24 Jun 2006 - S.M. Cadden, CD
{{photo}}

{{RCD}}

RCD Historical Equipment

2006-07-24T13:26:31Z

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= Equipment Used by The Royal Canadian Dragoons =
{{stub}}

== Turn of the Century ==

== From Horse to Machine ==
*1935 Pattern Armoured Car
Ford

Cheverolet
*Ford Recce Cars

== Second World War ==
*Daimler Armoured Car
*Dingo (Daimler Scout Car Mk 1)
*Fox (Cdn version of Humber Mk IV)
*M8 Greyhound
*Humber Armoured Car
*Lynx Scout Car
*M6 Staghound
*M2 White Halftrack w/75 mm Gun
*C15 Armoured Truck

== Korea ==
*M4A2E8 HVSS
*M20 Greyhound

== Canada's NATO Commitment ==
*Sherman
*Centurion
*Leopard
*Ferret
*Lynx
*Cougar AVGP
*Coyote
*UH-12E (CH-112) Hiller

== Turn of a Second Century ==
*LAV III

==External Links==
[http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Main_Battle_Tank Survey of Canadian medium and main battle tanks.]

{{RCD}}

Requently Asked Questions

2006-06-09T01:37:51Z

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*Recruiting FAQ - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,21101.0.html
*Recruiting Physical Requirements - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,16007.0.html

*Canadian Forces Aptitude Test (CFAT) FAQ - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,23193.0.html
*Enrollment Medical - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,37674.0.html
*CFHS Medical FAQ - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/board,45.0.html
*Trades FAQ - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,17703.0.html
*Army Courses List - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,30899.0.html
*Artillery FAQ - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,22569.0.html
*Infantry FAQ - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,21131.0.html

*Military Urban Myths and Recurring History Subjects FAQ - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,17720.0.html
*Unit Websites - http://army.ca/forums/index.php/topic,26081.0.html

Return to [[Recruiting]].

Recruiting

2006-06-09T01:28:50Z

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* [[Enrollment Requirements]]
*[[Career Progression - Reserve NCM]]

*[[Requently Asked Questions]] (on Army.ca)

[[Category: Careers]]

Trooper Alexander Butler

2006-06-08T14:22:47Z

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== Trooper Alexander Butler ==

Trooper Alexander Butler was born in London England. During World War I he served with The Royal Canadian Dragoons.

Born in London, Butler had served for more than six years with the Seventh Hussars, a British Calvary unit. Soon after war was declared, the 26-year-old immigrant enlisted with the Royal Canadian Dragoons in Valcartier, Quebec and was part of the first Canadian contingent to go overseas. The regiment saw heavy action at Festubert and Givenchy and in the trenches below Messines Ridge, where the Germans constantly harassed the British lines with artillery and sniper fire from high-ground positions.

Butler’s records suggest that he was a competent soldier with no disciplinary problems. In May, 1915, he had suffered a fall from his horse and hit his head. A year later after his regiment had been reinstated as a calvary unit, he suffered another fall, again injuring his head. On June8, 1916, while his regiment rested behind the lines preparing for the Somme offensive, Butler calmly walked up to another trooper, Edward Mickleburgh, and fired five rifle rounds into him.

At his Court-Martial, evidence was given that Butler may have suffered some brain damage from his falls. “There was evidence the accused had acted in an odd manner at times,” according to the charge report. But it found no evidence of insanity. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to death—the only punishment for the capital crime of murder—but recommended mercy.

The Commander-in-Chief, Sir Douglas Haig, who was in the final stages of preparation for the Somme campaign, refused the recommendation of clemency and confirmed the death penalty. Accordingly, Butler was shot by firing squad before dawn on July 2, 1916.

Canadian senior officer received no indication of Butler’s fate. The Canadian Calvary Brigade was not operating with the Canadian Corps, and so he was tried and executed by British authorities.

Butler was one of two men executed for murder during World War I and, therefore, not included in the government recognition in the Book of Remembrance in Ottawa.

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== Trooper Alexander Butler ==

Trooper Alexander Butler was born in London England. During World War I he served with The Royal Canadian Dragoons.

Born in London, Butler had served for more than six years with the Seventh Hussars, a British Calvary unit. Soon after war was declared, the 26-year-old immigrant enlisted with the Royal Canadian Dragoons in Valcartier, Quebec and was part of the first Canadian contingent to go overseas. The regiment saw heavy action at Festubert and Givenchy and in the trenches below Messines Ridge, where the Germans constantly harassed the British lines with artillery and sniper fire from high-ground positions.

Butler’s records suggest that he was a competent soldier with no disciplinary problems. In May, 1915, he had suffered a fall from his horse and hit his head. A year later after his regiment had been reinstated as a calvary unit, he suffered another fall, again injuring his head. On June8, 1916, while his regiment rested behind the lines preparing for the Somme offensive, Butler calmly walked up to another trooper, Edward Mickleburgh, and fired five rifle rounds into him.

At his Court-Martial, evidence was given that Butler may have suffered some brain damage from his falls. “There was evidence the accused had acted in an odd manner at times,” according to the charge report. But it found no evidence of insanity. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to death—the only punishment for the capital crime of murder—but recommended mercy.

The Commander-in-Chief, Sir Douglas Haig, who was in the final stages of preparation for the Somme campaign, refused the recommendation of clemency and confirmed the death penalty. Accordingly, Butler was shot by firing squad before dawn on July 2, 1916.

Canadian senior officer received no indication of Butler’s fate. The Canadian Calvary Brigade was not operating with the Canadian Corps, and so he was tried and executed by British authorities.

Butler was one of two men executed for murder during World War I and, therefore, not included in the government recognition in the Book of Remembrance in Ottawa.

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= RCD Historical Section - Men of the Regiment =

There have been many men and personalities in The Royal Canadian Dragoons over its' long history. Besides the biographies of the [[RCD REGIMENTAL APPOINTMENTS|Colonels of the Regiment]], the [[RCD REGIMENTAL COMMANDING OFFICERS|Commanding Officers]] and the [[RCD REGIMENTAL SERGEANTS-MAJOR|Regimental Sergeants Major]], there are many others who have left their mark on the Regimental History. During the Boer War, at the Action of Leliefontein, four members of the Regiment were recommended for the Victoria Cross. Only three became [[RCD Victoria Cross Recipients|Victoria Cross Recipients]]. There have also been [[RCD Groups and Teams|groups and teams]] who have had a special place in regimental lore.

== [[Trooper R.H. Allen]] ==

== [[Trooper Wilfred Robert George Berry]] ==

== [[Trooper Alexander Butler]] ==

== [[Trooper W.A. Knisley]] ==

== [[Cpl Carter]] ==

== [[Cpl 'Fess' Campbell]] ==

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= RCD Historical Section - Beasts =

== 'Teddy the Grey' ==

'Teddy the Grey' was foaled in 1910 and joined the RCD in 1916, at a time when good horses were hard to come by, so even grey was acceptable in a Regiment mounted on dark horses. Teddy saw service in World War I, but on return to Canada, his colour -- dappled white in his youth and even whiter with age -- precluded him from the pomp and circumstance of post-war musical rides, Royal Escorts, and other ceremonial functions, so the Dragoons mounted a trumpeter on him, and over the years he became a living legend. In 1936, he was the only Grey in the Regiment. At the annual Officer's Mess Ball in St. Jean, Teddy's twenty faithful years of service, as one of the most popular members of the Regiment, was recognized with him being the Guest of Honour with him in a special stall built for the occasion in a small alcove of the Mess.

Teddy probably owed his survival in the First World War to a covering of khaki paint, when he went into battle. After the war, he became a priveleged individual, with a well-developed sense of humour and mischief. He was a favourite of all members of "A" Squadron except the newest recruit who was traditionally assigned to him.

Teddy was an equine veteran of the war, and still the "best all-around horse on mounted sports". The RCD maintained their horses until October 1940. October 1940 saw the Last Mounted Parade in St. Jean. Then the horses were auctioned off, those too old or unsound, were sold to local dealers who disposed of them as dog food. The Government had been persuaded to renounce the few dollars that Teddy's old carcass would have fetched and the Regiment was allowed to 'Honour' him in a more fitting Cavalry fashion.

On that last morning Teddy was curried and combed until his white coat gleamed, his hooves had been lacquered and a gleaming bridle put over his head, while the Regiment in its' best uniforms formed up on the barrack square. 'Teddy the Grey' was led past the Troops by a Trooper who had riden him in the War, through the gate to the Drill Field, where he had performed his faithful duties as a cavalry horse for so many years. Before the Veterinary Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Duhault could dispatch him quickly and humanely, Teddy bolted, and the Squadron had to break ranks and chase after him. He was captured, and the Squadron was reformed on Parade. After the shot was fired, the Regiment was brought to Attention and the 'Last Post' was sounded by Trumpet-Major Galloway, who had ridden Teddy in the First World War. Two minutes of Silence was observed, and then the trumpeter sounded 'Reveille'.

'Teddy the Grey' was buried in a place of honour in the old earthen ramparts of St. Jean.

== 'Peter the Goat' ==

'Peter the Goat' was the mascot of "A" Squadron in the First World War. He resided in St Jean after the war.

Peter's collar was discovered in a Pawn Shop in Belguim. It was mounted on a plaque and presented to the Regiment. It now can be seen on display in the RCD Collection, in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

== 'Cpl Snoopy' ==

'Cpl Snoopy' was a dog, that a Troop in Recce Sqn adopted in Cyprus. He was a friend of all in the Regiment on this Tour and would often show up for inspection. A 'Dog Blanket' was made up for him for more formal occasions. This tiny 'shadrack', with its' accoutraments is in the RCD Collection.

== 'Tpr Bonnie' ==

In the late 1950's, early 1960's, a friendship had developed between the members of The Royal Canadian Dragoons in CFB Gagetown and the crew of the HMCS Bonnaventure. On a visit to the Regiment in Gagetown, the Crew of the Bonnaventure transferred to the Regiment a member of their crew. Documents detailing the transfer are in the Regimental Archives, along with photos, of one of the first inter-service Occupational Transfers to take place, prior to Unification. The gaining unit, The Royal Canadian Dragoons now had a new member, 'Tpr Bonnie'; a horse, complete with Dog Tags, Attestation Papers, and Qualifications.

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== General ==

This website was created to provide information about the Canadian Army to:

* past and present members of the military
* potential recruits
* military and civilian organizations
* anyone with an interest in Canada's Army

== Background ==

Army.ca first came online in December of 1993, under the name of The Canadian Army Home Page. At the time, it was Canada's first military site on the Internet. Since that time, the page has grown considerably, and is always in some stage of development. Much of the information has come from visitors to the page, who have graciously taken the time to contribute information, making a much better site.

Army.ca currently consists of thousands of pages containing of a wide variety of information and from a number of sources.

== Administration ==

Army.ca is owned and maintained Mike Bobbitt, with the generous help of many Staff, senior members and subscribers.

Army.ca is maintained primarily through subscriptions and advertising, and sometimes from Mike's personal funds.

== Disclaimer ==

Army.ca is a private effort, and is in no way sponsored by or connected to the Department Of National Defence, the Canadian Forces, or any other military organization. Army.ca is not supported in any manner, either official or unofficial. As a result, it often does not get the time or resources that it often requires, however it also means that it can operate without the worry of following official administrative guidelines and restrictions.

Despite this freedom, Army.ca attempts to provide accurate and timely information of interest to serving and potential members of the CF, however any information obtained from this page comes "as is" and it's accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

Mike Bobbitt

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= RCD Historical Section - Beasts =

== 'Teddy the Grey' ==

'Teddy the Grey' was foaled in 1910 and joined the RCD in 1916, at a time when good horses were hard to come by, so even grey was acceptable in a Regiment mounted on dark horses. Teddy saw service in World War I, but on return to Canada, his colour -- dappled white in his youth and even whiter with age -- precluded him from the pomp and circumstance of post-war musical rides, Royal Escorts, and other ceremonial functions, so the Dragoons mounted a trumpeter on him, and over the years he became a living legend. In 1936, he was the only Grey in the Regiment. At the annual Officer's Mess Ball in St. Jean, Teddy's twenty faithful years of service, as one of the most popular members of the Regiment, was recognized with him being the Guest of Honour with him in a special stall built for the occasion in a small alcove of the Mess.

Teddy was an equine veteran of the war, and still the "best all-around horse on mounted sports". The RCD maintained their horses until October 1940. October 1940 saw the Last Mounted Parade in St. Jean. Then the horses were auctioned off, those too old or unsound, were sold to local dealers who disposed of them as dog food. The Government had been persuaded to renounce the few dollars that Teddy's old carcass would have fetched and the Regiment was allowed to 'Honour' him in a more fitting Cavalry fashion.

On that last morning Teddy was curried and combed until his white coat gleamed, his hooves had been lacquered and a gleaming bridle put over his head, while the Regiment in its' best uniforms formed up on the barrack square. 'Teddy the Grey' was led past the Troops, through the gate to the Drill Field, where he had performed his faithful duties as a cavalry horse for so many years. After the shot was fired, the Regiment was brought to Attention and the 'Last Post' was sounded by Trumpet-Major Galloway, who had ridden Teddy in the First World War. Two minutes of Silence was observed, and then the trumpeter sounded 'Reveille'.

'Teddy the Grey' was buried in a place of honour in the old earthen ramparts of St. Jean.

== 'Peter the Goat' ==

== 'Cpl Snoopy' ==

== 'Tpr Bonnie' ==

In the late 1950's, early 1960's, a friendship had developed between the members of The Royal Canadian Dragoons in CFB Gagetown and the crew of the HMCS Bonnaventure. On a visit to the Regiment in Gagetown, the Crew of the Bonnaventure transferred to the Regiment a member of their crew. Documents detailing the transfer are in the Regimental Archives, along with photos, of one of the first inter-service Occupational Transfers to take place, prior to Unification. The gaining unit, The Royal Canadian Dragoons now had a new member, 'Tpr Bonnie'; a horse, complete with Dog Tags, Attestation Papers, and Qualifications.

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= RCD Historical Section - Men of the Regiment =

There have been many men and personalities in The Royal Canadian Dragoons over its' long history. Besides the biographies of the [[RCD REGIMENTAL APPOINTMENTS|Colonels of the Regiment]], the [[RCD REGIMENTAL COMMANDING OFFICERS|Commanding Officers]] and the [[RCD REGIMENTAL SERGEANTS-MAJOR|Regimental Sergeants Major]], there are many others who have left their mark on the Regimental History. During the Boer War, at the Action of Leliefontein, four members of the Regiment were recommended for the Victoria Cross. Only three became [[RCD Victoria Cross Recipients|Victoria Cross Recipients]]. There have also been [[RCD Groups and Teams|groups and teams]] who have had a special place in regimental lore.

== [[Trooper R.H. Allen]] ==

== [[Trooper Wilfred Robert George Berry]] ==

== [[Trooper W.A. Knisley]] ==

== [[Cpl Carter]] ==

== [[Cpl 'Fess' Campbell]] ==

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= RCD Historical Section - Men of the Regiment =

== [[Trooper R.H. Allen]] ==

== [[Trooper Wilfred Robert George Berry]] ==

== [[Trooper W.A. Knisley]] ==

== [[Cpl Carter]] ==

== [[Cpl 'Fess' Campbell]] ==

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= The Canadian soldier who conquered the Dutch =

By Alan Edmonds, MACLEANS, June 1967

Wilfred Berry was an obscure Canadian soldier liberating an obscure Dutch village. Then he was killed, and became in death what he’d never been in life – a hero, one of the many who, 20 years later, still make Canadians something special in the Netherlands.

It’s Hard – perhaps impossible – to fully explain why the Dutch should have a special affection for Canada and Canadians.

True, Canadians liberated Holland from the Germans – but the Americans freed half Europe, and they’re still almost universally disliked. True, Canadian tanks went to battle carrying bread for starving Dutch civilians – but, like all soldiers in just-freed Europe, Canadians later profited from a black market. True, 1,900 Canadian soldiers married Dutch girls – but within a year of liberation 3,374 other Dutch girls bore illegitimate children, mostly of Canadian paternity.

But even if all this addition and subtraction seems to amount to a big fat zero, most Dutch men and women over 35 still say of the Canadezen: “Ze kunnen een potje bij ons breken.” Literally translated, that’s: “They can break a pot of mine any time.” In spirit, it means the speaker is so fond of Canadians they can do him harm, and he’ll still like them.

“Ze kunnen een potje bij ons breken.” …it’s something for Canadians to be proud of, that. And if it is hard to explain this entente, it’s also easy to find evidence of it. The tulips of Ottawa which bloom each spring are annual gifts from Queen Juliana who, as crown princess, spent part of the war in our capital. Thousands of Dutch families still exchange Christmas cards with Canadian soldiers befriended in the months after May 5, 1945, when the Germans, holding out in that part of Holland not yet overrun, finally capitulated. There’s an old man from Deventer so grateful for liberation that for 20 years he’s sent the Canadian embassy a Deventer cake, a spicy loaflike confection, on the anniversaries of the freeing of his home town. Annual Liberation Day parades and parties are dying out as memory fades, but the evidence of gratitude remains in streets named after Canada. Canadian generals, Canadian cities. Not long ago, when we stopped outside the royal palace near Hilversum, the queen’s gardener asked where we were from and, on the reply, “Canada,” he made sure the palace guards weren’t looking, plucked a red rose from the regal flower beds and, with a flourish, presented it to my wife.

We were in Holland trying to measure this intangible goodwill Canadian soldiers somehow left behind, along with the babies, the debris of battle and their dead. But nothing – not the gift of tulips, the old man and the cake, the Liberation Day parades, the street names nor even the gallantry of the queen’s gardener -- explained it as well as the story of Trooper Wilfred Robert George Berry, an unknown soldier, and Oldeholpta, an unknown village in the northern part of Holland called Friesland.

Wilfred Berry wasn’t a memorable man. Even his three brothers and one sister don’t remember him well, because their mother died when Wilfred, the eldest, was a teenager and the family split up. He was not particularly ambitious; a competent, but not outstanding, soldier just as he had been a competent, but not outstanding, assemblyman at the General Motors plant in St. Catharines, Ont., before he enlisted on April 13, 1941, at the age of 20. Six months later he was in England, where he waited out a goodly part of his war with a few hundred thousand others. He and the rest of the Royal Canadian Dragoons were still in Italy when the Canadian Army fought up through Belgium and into Holland and swept around the Amsterdam – Hague – Rotterdam area where a third of Holland’s 12 million people live and were the Germans kept control until capitulation.

In March 1945, along with the rest of the Dragoons, Berry landed in Holland to join the fight for northeast Europe. He had won no medals and earned no stripes but simply had done what he was told, usually not knowing, and not caring either, which piece of which jigsaw he was supposed to be in someone’s grand design.

By April 1945 the Canadians had ended the gory battles of southern and southeastern Holland and had rolled across the relentlessly flat countryside beneath the lowering clods of Holland’s spring skies so that, as one veteran remembers it, “it was as though you were driving through a Vermeer landscape.”

Sometime during the drive north through Friesland the crossroads town of Heerenveen became an important strategic objective. Oldeholpta is near Heerenveen: an easily missed side turning wriggles off the main road and past the church of yellowing limestone which, they say dates from the 12th century. Then it becomes the tree roofed main street of Oldeholpta lined with neat bungalows, mostly of red brick, with the newer and bigger houses near the church and the smaller homes toward the other end of the village, perhaps a mile away.

Until the end, Oldeholpta saw little of the war. At first, German officers billeted themselves in the abbé’s house near the church, but they soon left. Later, German trucks would roll into the village without warning and soldiers would search the houses for young men to be pressed into slave labor, and for Jews as well: Holland’s Jewish population was all but exterminated. But usually these raiding parties found no one because the young men had an early-warning system and, as the Germans arrived, would flee across the fields to the marshland half a mile away, where they would hide aboard a raft camouflaged to look like an island. There was an 8 p.m. curfew in the village, as there was everywhere in Holland, but otherwise the village peace was little disturbed: the people didn’t even go hungry, because Oldeholpta is in the heart of verdant farmland, and Jan Dekker, the butcher, was a good provider for himself and his friends, and too important to be dragged away to a labor camp.

In fact, the shooting war didn’t come to Oldeholpta until Thursday April 12. The day before, a patrolling German armored car had broken down at the far end of the village and been abandoned. The night before, the village had lain awake, alternately listening to the radio news from London and to the distant rumble of artillery. That morning, as the sun grew hot, Allied fighters strafed a German convoy on the main road nearby. By noon there was an ominous 2quiet, and Oldeholpta stood expectant by its front gates. At 1.30 p.m. there was a growing rumble from the road behind the church, and then three scout cars – menacing, but their weapons stilled – turned the corner. The Canadians had arrived.

The villagers cheered and draped themselves around the cars and the Canadians grinned and stopped outside Jan Dekker’s meat shop, asking directions for Heerenveen and distributing white bread, chocolate and cigarettes. Then, when villagers told them the crew of the abandoned German armored car parked farther down the road had fled the day before, they turned up the lane alongside Jan Dekker’s and drove to Heerenveen.

Thirty minutes later three more Canadian scout cars drove through the village. This group missed the turning to Heerenveen and drove on toward the apparently abandoned German armored car. The lead scout car was about 150 yards ahead of the others, and as it passed the German vehicle there cam a burst of fire from an antitank rifle. The villagers were wrong: two Germans had remained behind on guard, hidden. The scout car swung out of control, then toppled on its side. Two of the three-man crew scrambled out and took cover. The driver, hit in the back, lay half toppled out of the car, his dark hair hanging limply down, blood spreading on the ground.

It was Wilfred Robert George Berry.

He had been in Holland for three weeks, and 10 days earlier had, for the first time in three years, met his younger brother Lorne by chance during a convoy halt, and said shyly that he was thinking of getting married. Now he was dead, or dying.

== They remember – and cry ==

There are some in Oldeholpta who say he lived for perhaps 30 minutes after the shooting; that he called out for water; that old Andriesje Dekker, the widow in whose front garden the scout car lay, took him water – and to do so braved the bullets sprayed along the street by the two other Canadian scout cars by now parked in the forecourt of Hendrick Kronkamp’s café. But Frau Dekker is dead now and cannot be asked if it’s true.

Anyway, the Germans escaped and the other scout cars went on to Heerenveen, leaving the corpse of Wilfred Berry at the roadside for the villagers to guard overnight. When Jan Dekker, an old man now, sat in his meticulously neat living room telling me this story, he cried when he reached the part where he took his turn guarding the body. He said he still sees Wilfred Berry’s face in his sleep.

The villagers buried Wilfred berry in Oldeholpta, and collected 1,000 guilders for a memorial. It stands there today, a simple shaft of marble that says it is in memory of Trooper Berry; born, Shelburne, Ontario, Canada, on August 23, 1920 – “killed in action.” A maple tree has been planted nearby, and in the spring, summer and fall, you’ll usually find a vase of flowers standing before the memorial. Berry was later reburied in one of the three official Canadian cemeteries for the war dead in Holland, and most years one of the village organizations the billiard club from the Kafe Kroonkamp, the choir, the school-children – goes on a pilgrimage there to tend the grave.

There’s many a father who, 22 years after, can tell of his son’s death with dry eyes. In Oldeholpta they still cry for Wilfred Berry, and the children all know the manner of his death.

But then, 19 years after he was killed, Wilfred Berry came to the rescue of the village in another matter. In 1964 the village built its first new road in20 years. It is perhaps 150 yards long and contains eight houses. The local government – centred in a nearby town of Wolvega, named the new road Yester Straat and the villagers were outraged. Int the local Fries dialect yester is a word that means “cow pen,” and for one thing no one wanted to live in a cow pen and for another the village did not sympathize with those who wanted to impose the dialect on their neighbourhood. And so they besieged the local-government council meetings until, finally, Burgemeester Boelens said the name of Yester Straat could be changed, but only if the villagers could come up with a more suitable name.

Jouke de Leeuw, the schoolmaster called a village meeting in the café at which about 100 people rejected every suggested name until de Leeuw himself stood and proposed Yester Straat become Wilfred Berry Straat. There was a unanimous standing vote of approval. Jouke de Leeuw and Jan Dekker, who was chairman of the meeting, delayed their proposal until early 1965 when all Holland had begun planning celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the liberation. They knew that Burgemeester Boelens could hardly refuse the village permission to rename the street in memory of a Canadian liberator. And so, on May 5, 1965 – 20th anniversary of liberation – the village had a second memorial to the one man who died there during the war. Yester Straat became Wilfred Berry Straat.

The impact that the death of Wilfred Berry had on Oldeholpta is as hard to explain as this special relationship between Canada and Holland. In part, it might be because the Canadians organized a truce with the Germans in midbattle so food could be sent in to starving Dutch civilians in still-occupied Holland. In part, it might be because Canadians fighting in Europe were all volunteers – and the Dutch knew it. In the case of Oldeholpta it might seem, at least to a cynic who’d never been there, that Wilfred Berry’s memory is a sort of communal trophy of the war; the only blood to be shed for that village was his blood. But men like Jan Dekker and Jouke de Leeuw don’t cry for spurious reasons.

Soon, this special relationship between Canada and Holland will vanish; already the young are impatient of their elders’ stories of the war – they want only to forget. Indeed, modern Holland has plenty of problems to occupy the Dutch so that dwelling on yesterday is an irritant or an escape. It has inflation (an ailment it shares with most other Western countries); doctors within its medicare scheme are rebellious; and the popular image of the Dutch as a phlegmatic, if not stolid, race was abruptly shattered when the Dutch took to the streets of Amsterdam to demonstrate their anger that Princess Beatrix should dare marry a German. Then there are the Provos of Amsterdam, a group of social protesters who all wear white, hold spontaneous demonstrations in mid-Amsterdam promptly at 8.30 p.m. each Saturday and seem to believe the world should return to fundamentals, though they’d like to retain one product of scientific progress; the motorized bicycle, which is the Ford of Holland and is locally called the Bromfeits: they make a sound just like their name, and buzz around the cities – notably The Hague – like a swarm of bees, a plague to themselves and everyone else.

There are other signs that memory is fading. The annual transatlantic pilgrimages of relatives of the 5,632 Canadian servicemen buried in Holland to the war cemeteries at Bergen op Zoom, Groesbeek and Holton have ended. Emigration from Holland to Canada, which sent almost a quarter million Dutch to Canada in the past 20 years, is dwindling as the common Market revitalizes Europe.

Even so, it’ll be a long time before the Dutch are permitted to forget the fact of the Canadian liberation. Canadian Generals Crerar and Foulkes are celebrated in street names, along with Churchill and Roosevelt. In Deventer, a still almost-medieval town on the River IJssel, there is even a Bison Straat, named after the brigadier commanding Canadians who liberated the town on April 10, 1945. Deventer is probably best known for its Deventer koek (cake), one of which arrives by mail every April 11 at the Canadian embassy in The Hague. It is sent by Albert van Donselaar, a 66-year old former wholesale tobacconist, as a token of his gratitude for the liberation. Today, van Donselaar lives in retirement in an apartment development about four kilometres outside Deventer, and there recently explained that “no one could under stand quite what liberation meant to us unless they, too, had once been prisoners in their own country.”

On the evening of April 10, 1945, when the tide of fighting had swept through the town and the Dutch emerged from their cellars, van Donselaar gave seven battle-fatigued Canadian soldiers his family’s beds. He remembers still: “Those boys, they slept like dead men, and I sat up all night listening as they ground their teeth and called out, shivering and shouting, fighting in their sleep. Fighting for us, you understand, us they didn’t know.”

The Deventer koek is neither the only, nor the most surprising, reminder of the liberation regularly received by the Canadian embassy. A few months ago they received a letter from a woman who said that after the liberation she had turned down a proposal of marriage from a Canadian soldier, but now she had changed her mind and wanted to accept, so could they help her find him again. From Skiplauten, a man wrote and said he had just cleared his drainage ditch and found the blockage was caused by an old, decaying Canadian Army uniform. Why, he asked, would a soldier bury his uniform in a ditch? And then there are the children the Canadian soldiery left behind: there was much vociferous concern in the two years after fighting ended about the exchange of favors between Dutch girls and their heroes, the liberators. At the time Holland’s leading satirical magazine, Metro, reported: “Our correspondent in Bergen op Zoom [a major Canadian base] says that if a new world war should break out in 20 years, no Canadian army would have to be sent to Holland: a few shiploads of uniforms would be sufficient.” And now, once in a while, the subject comes back to haunt the Canadian embassy: Staff Sergeant Neill Hill, aide to Canada’s military attaché in Holland, not long ago handled a letter from a woman who said the father of her eldest son, now 20, was a Canadian and she wondered if he would be prepared to help pay for the boy’s art-school training. The soldier, she said, had told her his name was Brad Stork. “What do you do for God’s sake?” says Sergeant Hill. “You can cry a little, but I suppose it is a part of war.”

It was to keep the liberators out of trouble that, at Doetinchem, near Arnhem, officers put 100 or so men of the Black Watch to work creating a park out of a piece of scrubland near a housing development on the town’s outskirts. That park, a belt of well-kept lawn on either side of a stream, became a symbol of Doetinchem’s affection for Canada. The streets around it were renamed – Toronto Straat, Winnipeg Straat, Vancouver Straat. The park is Canada Park; the local school is Canada School. There’s an old Canadian tank mounted on a concrete pedestal in the park; it was knocked out in the first round of bitter fighting across the River IJssel at Doetinchem, and stood, derelict, for 20 years as a plaything for two generations of children. Then in 1965, a detachment of Canadians stationed in Germany were sent to smarten up the park for the 20th-anniversary ceremony to be held there. They moved the old tank, and painted it, too.

I was there one bleak, rainy day and a handful of children were clambering over the outside of the tank. Before the tank was painted, they used to climb inside it and light a fire on the driver’s seat and fan the smoke out through the gun barrel. That was fun. But when they moved the tank, the Canadians bolted down the trap-door entrance. I asked the children if they knew who the Canadians were, and one who seemed to be the leader said, “Yes, they’re the ones who fixed the lid of the tank. We do not like them much.”

And so, one day soon, the Canadian in Holland will be greeted with the same smiling, but frequently remote, courtesy with which Europeans greet all tourists. The Canadians will have become just another history-book name for one of the scores of warring tribes that have battled back and forth across Europe for centuries. But for a few years you will still be able to go to Holland and say you’re from Canada and have the queen’s gardener offer your wife a rose.

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= RCD Historical Section - Men of the Regiment =

== [[Trooper Wilfred Robert George Berry]] ==

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The Royal Canadian Dragoons

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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Headquarters: CFB Petawawa, Ontario, Canada</div>'''
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== '''The Royal Canadian Dragoons''' ==
The Royal Canadian Dragoons is a Regular Force armoured reconnaissance regiment and is the senior regiment of the [[Regiments of the Armoured Corps|Royal Canadian Armoured Corps]]. The current role of The Royal Canadian Dragoons is to provide Armour Reconnaissance support to 2 CMBG operations.

=== Definition - (Oxford English Dictionary) ===

==== DRAGOON ====

# A kind of carbine or musket. So called from its "breathing fire" like the fabulous dragon...
# A species of cavalry soldier. The name was originally applied to mounted infantry armed with firearms. This gradually developed into horse-soldiers and the term is now merely a name certain regiments of cavalry which historically represented the ancient dragoons and retain some distinctive features of dress, etc. In France the edict of Louis XIV, 25 July 1665, ranked dragoons among infantry, and this was their status until 1784. In Montecuculi's time, 1688, they still ordinarily fought on foot, though sometimes firing from horseback; when Simes wrote, 1768, they mostly fought on horseback, though still occasionally on foot. The French ''reglement'' of 1 January 1791, confirmed by ''decret'' of 21 February 1793, classed them among horse-soldiers...
# As the type of rough and fierce fellow.

== [[RCD Lineage|Lineage]] ==

The Royal Canadian Dragoons trace their [[RCD Lineage|lineage]] back in 1883 with General Order 13/83 and their formation in the Citadel in Quebec City. The RCD have seen a succession of personalities in various levels of its’ organization. Included here are also lists of successive Colonel’s In Chief of the Regiment, Honorary Colonels of the Regiment, Colonels of the Regiment, Regimental Commanding Officers and Regimental Sergeant-Majors. Other personalities who have left their mark on the Regiment can be found in the [[RCD Historical|Historical Section]].

== [[RCD Guidon|Honours of Precedence of Regimental Standards and Guidons]] ==

Originally, Dragoons had two orders of precedence: in the field they took precedence as "horse" but in garrison they took less precedence as "foot". Dragoons were originally mounted infantry. With their superior speed and carbine firepower they were the shock troops of their day. Gradually their role was assimilated to that of the Cavalry proper and consequently followed the rules of precedence in that arm of service. The precedence continues in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, The Royal Canadian Dragoons having the honour of precedence in the Corps.

== [[RCD Battle|Battle Honours]] ==

The Royal Canadian Dragoons have been awarded twenty-five [[RCD Battle|Battle Honours]], of which 18 are emblazoned on their Fourth Guidon.

== [[RCD Anniversaries|Regimental Anniversaries]] ==

== [[RCD Affiliations|Allied and Affiliated Units]] ==

The Royal Canadian Dragoons maintain numerous Regimental [[RCD Affiliations|affiliations]].

== [[RCD Music|Regimental Music]] ==

[[RCD Music|Music]] of The Royal Canadian Dragoons consist of a The Mounted March, The Dismounted March and a Fanfare.

== [[RCD Prayers and Hymns|Regimental Prayers and Hymns]] ==

== Mottoes ==

The Royal Canadian Dragoons do not have an Official Motto. Unofficial Mottoes are "Bold and Swift", "Audacieux et vit comme l'eclair" or the Latin version, "Audax et Celer".

== [[RCD Home Stations|Home Stations]] ==

Over the history of the Regiment, The Royal Canadian Dragoons have called many places their [[RCD Home Stations|Home Stations]] starting with La Citadel, in Quebec City where their were formed, to Toronto's Stanley Barracks, now the CNE Grounds, and St Jean, Quebec where they occupied the Barracks that would later become the College Militaire Royal. The RCD have had their Home Station located in Winnipeg and then in Germany. Their current Home Station is at Worthington Barracks, CFB Petawawa, Petawawa, Ontario, Canada.

== [[RCD Historical|RCD Historical Section]] ==

There have been many interesting personalities, both [[RCD Man|man]] and [[RCD Beast|beast]], in the history of The Royal Canadian Dragoons. This section is dedicated to them and the [[RCD Historical Equipment|equipment]] they used and role they played in Canada's Military History. The RCD have partaken in many ventures in its' history. It has been to War as a fighting force; to floods and fires as an Aide to the Civil Power; to distant lands as Peacekeepers; an active participant in NATO and a long history in Europe; numerous Operations, Exercises, and Competitions; and more recently heavily involved in Peacemaking and the Reconstruction of Afghanistan. In its’ Reconnaissance Role the Regiment with its’ Coyotes will be in high demand.

== [[RCD Published Histories|Published Histories]] ==

There are currently several [[RCD Published Histories|Published Histories]] covering the history of The Royal Canadian Dragoons.

== RCD Unit and Association Web Sites ==

Regimental Site: http://dragoons.ca/navigation.html

Alberta Chapter: http://www.members.shaw.ca/rcbarwise/

(Under Construction) http://dragoons.ca/Chapters/Alta/alta-intro.html

Atlantic Chapter: http://dragoons.ca/Chapters/Atlantic/atlantic-intro.html

British Columbia Chapter: (Under Construction) http://dragoons.ca/Chapters/BC/bc-intro.html

Kingston Chapter: http://dragoons.ca/Chapters/Kingston/k-intro.html

National Capital Chapter: http://dragoons.ca/Chapters/NCR/index-ncr.html

Ottawa Valley Chapter: (Under Construction) http://dragoons.ca/Chapters/OttawaValley/ottawavalley-intro.html

Southern Ontario Chapter: http://dragoons.ca/Chapters/SCOC/scoc-intro.html

Quebec Chapter: (Under Construction) http://dragoons.ca/Chapters/Quebec/quebec-intro.html

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Halifax Rifles Historical

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= The Halifax Rifles (RCAC) =

== Early History and Organization ==

The regiment was raised 14 May 1860 as the Halifax Volunteer Battalion and later became the Halifax Volunteer Battalion of Rifles on 28 May 1869. Later, on 5 November 1869, they were Redesignated the 63rd The Halifax Battalion of Rifles. It was Redesignated the 63rd Halifax Battalion of Rifles in December 1869 and authorized as the 63rd Regiment (Halifax Rifles) on 8 May 1900.

== World War I ==

During the First World War, the regiment contributed volunteers to the 14th Battalion, CEF, on its' formation in September 1914 and then later raised the 40th Battalion, CEF.

== Post World War I ==

On 15 May 1920, the Regiment was Redesignated the The Halifax Rifles.

== World War II ==

During the Second World War, 1939 - 1945, the Regiment was placed on local protective duty in Canada. It was later sent to England, where the Regiment was broken up to provide reinforcements for other regiments.

== Post World War II ==

On 1 April 1946, the Regiment was Redesignated the 23rd Armoured Regiment (Halifax Rifles), then The Halifax Rifles (23rd Armoured Regiment) on 4 February 1949. It received its' final designation on 19 May 1958. The Regiment served in Halifax until reduced to nil establishment in 1965.

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12 MD Historical

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= 12th Manitoba Dragoons =

== Overview of Early Years ==

=== 12th Manitoba Dragoons ===

The Regiment was raised on 1 July 1903 as the 12th Manitoba Dragoons at Verden, Manitoba.

=== The Border Horse ===

The Regiment was raised on 1 April 1908 as the 20th Mounted Rifles at Pipestone, Manitoba. It was redesignated the 20th Border Horse on 1 Mar 1910, and then the Border Horse on 15 March 1920.

== World War I ==

During the First World War, the 12th Manitoba Dragoons contributed troops to the 5th Battalion, CEF, on its formation in September 1914 and later raised the 32nd Battalion, CEF.

The 20th Border Horse raised the 6th Battalion, CEF.

== Post World War I ==

On 31 January 1935, the 12th Manitoba Dragoons and the 20th Border Horse were amalgamated.

== World War II ==

During World War II the Regiment served as the Corps Reconnaissance Regiment for 2nd Canadian Corps.

== Post World War II ==

After the war, the Regiment served in Verden, Manitoba, as a militia regiment until reduced to nil establishment on 31 December 1964.

It amalgamated with the Border Horse on 31 January 1935. Redesignated the 18th Armoured car Regiment (12th Manitoba Dragoons) on 1 April 1946.

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= 14th Canadian Hussars (RCAC) =

== Early History and Organization ==

The regiment was raised on 1 April 1910 as the 27th Light Horse at Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

== World War I ==

During the First World War, the regiment recruited the 5th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force when it was formed in September 1914. It later provided recruits for the 209th Battalion, also.

== Post World War I ==

On 15 March, 1920, the Regiment was Redesignated the 14th Canadian Light Horse.

== World War II ==

The Regiment was Redesignated the 14th Canadian Hussars on 1 August 1940. It was mobilized as the 14th (Active) Canadian Hussars on 26 January 1941. On 11 February 1941, the unit was renamed the 8th Reconnaissance (14CH) and was formed from personnel of the 2nd Infantry Division in England and by reinforcements from Canada. In Canada, the Regiment was Redesignated the 8th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Battalion (14th Canadian Hussars) on 1 April 1941 and the 8th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) on 8 June 1942.

In Europe, as the 8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars), it landed in Normandy, on 6 July 1944, as part of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. After the Active Regiment was disbanded on 15 December 1945, the Hussars remained as a Militia Regiment.

== Post World War II ==

The Regiment was Redesignated the 8th Armoured Car Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) on 19 June 1947, the 14th Canadian Hussars (8th Armoured car Regiment) on 4 February 1949, and then the 14th Canadian Hussars ( 8th Armoured Regiment) on 30 July 1954. The present designation, 14th Canadian Hussars (RCAC), was authorized on 19 May 1958. The Regiment served as an armoured unit in the Canadian Army (Militia), Headquartered in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, until ordered transferred to the Supplementary Order of Battle on 1 April 1968. It's service to Canada spanned exactly 58 years.

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PEIR Historical

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= The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)=

== A Historic Summary ==

The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC) can trace it's roots through cavalry, infantry, artillery and engineer volunteers and militia units dating back to the French Colonial days. It was these units that helped create the 82nd Queens's County Battalion of Infantry on 25 June 1875. Three batteries of Garrison Artillery were also formed in 1875, which were then amalgamated in 1882 to become the 4th PEI Regiment, Garrison Artillery.

At the turn of the century, the 82nd and the 4th Regiment, as well as the Charlottetown Engineer Company raised and supplied volunteers for the Boer War. The Charlottetown Engineer Company would later be absorbed into the 4th Regiment.

== World War I ==

On 1 June, 1901, "L" Squadron, PEI Rifles was formed. By 1914, "L" Squadron became the 36th PEI Light Horse and they supplied many volunteers to the 5th and 6th Canadian Mounted Rifles, CEF.

The 4th Regiment Garrison Artillery was redesignated the PEI Heavy Brigade Canadian Garrison Arillery prior to WW I.

In 1914, all three units were already providing volunteers for the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Europe. The PEI Heavy Brigade mobilized the 2nd and 8th Siege Batteries, who served overseas. The 82nd recruited the 105th Battalion (PEI Highlanders) in 1915-16 for overseas.

In 1920, the 36th PEI Light Horse were Redesignated the PEI Light Horse. In 1929, they became affiliated with the 9th Lancers, who later became the 9th/12th Lancers, of the British Army. By 1927, the 82nd had become known as the PEI Highlanders, and in 1931 they became affiliated with the Black Watch RHR of the British Army. The PEIR still maintains Regimental Affiliations with these two British Army Units today. (The British Army is again restructuring, and these Units are once again being amalgamated, or merged, into new units.)

== World War II ==

The PEI Highlanders mobilized, serving in Nova Scotia and then in Newfoundland until 1943. During this time they supplied a full company to the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, as well as volunteer drafts to the West Nova Scotia Regiment and other units. Many officers were supplied to other Canadian Units and to British Units as Can Loan Officers. They were brought back up to strength in 1943 and, after serving in British Columbia for a time, were sent overseas to England.

In 1941, the PEI Light Horse mobilized a squadron and they fought with the 2nd Cdn corps in North-West Europe. During the war the Light Horse maintained a Reserve Regiment on the Island, which served as the local Island Garrison, reaching the strength of 7 Squadrons.

The PEI Heavy Brigade was redesignated the 1st PEI Medium Brigade, Canadian Artillery by the outbreak of WW II. They mobilized the 2nd and 8th Medium Batteries. The 2nd served in Italy and North-West Europe. The 8th became the 8th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery and served in North-West Europe.

== Post World War II ==

In 1946, the PEI Highlanders and the PEI Light Horse amalgamated to form the 17th (PEI) Reconnaissance Regiment. In the same year, the 1st PEI Medium Brigade became the 28th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment. In 1955, they were all amalgamated into the "17th Recce".

On 19 May 1958, the Regiment recieved it's present designation: "The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)".

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Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

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== Regiments of the Armoured Corps ==

(From West to East)

# [[The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own)(RCAC)]] (Vancouver, BC)
# [[The British Columbia Dragoons]] (Kelowna, BC)
# [[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)]] (Edmonton, AB) *
# [[King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)]] (Calgary,AB)
# [[The South Alberta Light Horse]] (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB) (B Sqn)
# [[The Saskatchewan Dragoons]] (Moose Jaw, SK)
# [[The Fort Garry Horse]] (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
# [[The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)]] (Windsor, ON)
# [[The 1st Hussars]] (London and Sarnia, ON)
# [[The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)(RCAC)]] (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
# [[The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)]] (Oshawa, ON)
# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON) *
# [[Le Regiment de Hull (RCAC)]] (Gatineau, PQ)
# [[The Royal Canadian Hussars]] (Montreal and St. Hubert, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Milice)]] (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ) *
# [[The Sherbrooke Hussars]] (Sherbrooke, PQ)
# [[The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)]] (Moncton and Sussex, NB)
# [[The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)]] (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)

NOTE: Regiment's denoted with a * are Regular, the remaining Regiments are Reserve.

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== Regiments of the Armoured Corps ==

(From West to East)

# [[The British Columbia Regiment]] (Vancouver, BC)
# [[The British Columbia Dragoons]] (Kelowna, BC)
# [[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)]] (Edmonton, AB) *
# [[King's Own Calgary Regiment]] (Calgary,AB)
# [[South Alberta Light Horse]] (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB) (B Sqn)
# [[Saskatchewan Dragoons]] (Moose Jaw, SK)
# [[The Fort Garry Horse]] (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
# [[The Windsor Regiment]] (Windsor, ON)
# [[The 1st Hussars]] (London and Sarnia, ON)
# [[The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)]] (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
# [[The Ontario Regiment]] (Oshawa, ON)
# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON) *
# [[Le Regiment de Hull]] (Gatineau, PQ)
# [[The Royal Canadian Hussars]] (Montreal and St. Hubert, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ) *
# [[The Sherbrooke Hussars]] (Sherbrooke, PQ)
# [[The 8th Canadian Hussars]] (Moncton and Sussex, NB)
# [[The Prince Edward Island Regiment]] (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)

NOTE: Regiment's denoted with a * are Regular, the remaining Regiments are Reserve.

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RCAC Hat Badges

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Regimental Hat Badges of the [[Royal Canadian Armoured Corps]].

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= '''HONOURS OF PRECEDENCE OF REGIMENTAL STANDARDS AND GUIDONS''' =

Originally, Dragoons had two orders of precedence: in the field they took precedence as "horse" but in garrison they took less precedence as "foot". Dragoons were originally mounted infantry. With their superior speed and carbine firepower they were the shock troops of their day. Gradually their role was assimilated to that of the Cavalry proper and consequently followed the rules of precedence in that arm of service. The precedence continues in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, The Royal Canadian Dragoons having the honour of precedence in the Corps.

== '''STANDARDS AND GUIDONS''' ==

=== '''INTRODUCTION''' ===

The carrying of colours into battle goes back into the dimmest of distant history. The Israelites carried their sacred standard into battle. The Eagles of Rome, in comparison, are almost modern in the passage of time.

It is through more or less the knights of medieval days that the British Army and subsequently the Commonwealth Armies trace the tradition of individual regimental colours. Knights flew their armorial bearings on their pennants so that their own following of bowmen and men-at-arms would know their location and where to rally in the heat of battle.

A cavalry regiment carried as its banner a guidon, which is derived from the French Guydhomme - the guideman or leader of horse who carried the banner into battle. Eventually the word referred to the banner, rather than to the officer who carried the banner. Ever since, guidons have been carried in the British Army.

The Royal Canadian Dragoons are currently in possession of their Fourth Guidon.

=== '''THE GUIDON''' ===

==== '''Traditions''' ====

Today, because of its historic and sentimental value, it is no longer carried into action, or by a unit in a theatre of war. The RCD were the last Canadian Forces Unit to do so, when they returned to Canada from their UNPROFOR deployment to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, on 7 May 1995. The Guidon still continues, however, to be a visible symbol of pride, honour and devotion to sovereign and country.

When presented, guidons are consecrated by the Chaplain General assisted by the unit chaplains. Through this means, the guidon is sanctified and devoted to service as a symbol of honour and duty and all members of the unit, regardless of classification, dedicate themselves to constancy in the maintenance of these qualities. Once consecrated, guidons are closely guarded and, when uncased, they are honoured by the appropriate compliment. Every effort must be made to prevent the loss of the guidon to enemy forces. Any regiment serving overseas at the outbreak of hostilities shall return their guidon to Canada. It is to be destroyed on threat of capture by hostile elements.

In cavalry regiments, the guidon is carried by the senior MWO and escorted by the two most senior WOs with a Sgt as Guidon Orderly. In the past, when cavalry soldiers had to provide their own horses, the class of private soldiers which any cavalry regiment attracted were generally o much higher standing than those who would gravitate to regiments of foot. This superior breed of soldier led to superior Non-Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers. As a tangible symbol of the trust placed in Warrant Officers and Sergeants within the cavalry, the honour of carrying and escorting the guidon was relinquished by the officers.

The only personnel allowed to handle the guidon are the Guidon Bearer, COs and former COs of the Regiment, Colonels and former Honourary Colonels of the Regiment, and the RSM.

Once the guidon is requested, be it a parade or social function, an appointment is to be made with the Regimental Adjutant who unlocks the case so the Bearer can retrieve the guidon. Once drawn, and until it is placed back in the case, the Guidon Party is responsible at all times for the security and safe keeping of the guidon and will not leave it unguarded. On return, the Adjutant must be informed and after the guidon is returned to it's case, the Guidon Party will proceed with the Adjutant to have the traditional glass of sherry with the CO and toast the Regiment.

==== '''Guidon Protocol''' ====

New guidons will not be carried on parade until they have been consecrated and no compliments are to be paid until consecration has been done. Once consecrated and presented, they shall be accorded the highest honours at all times and treated with the greatest of respect and care.

Guidons are transported to and from parades 'cased' in a cover. The Guidon is 'uncased' at the parade, with the Guidon Orderly responsible for the 'case', and then the Guidon is 'Marched On' Parade. When the Guidon is 'Marched off' Parade the Guidon Orderly will replace the Guidon case, for transport.

Guidons are not to be uncased after retreat or before sunrise, unless the location of the parade is illuminated.

Guidons are never uncased in inclement weather. If the guidon is wet, it shall be hung to dry before returning to it's case.

When a guidon is declared non-serviceable, they are 'laid up' and put on public display where they will 'rot on their staff'. In the past, the old Guidons would be 'laid up' in a Church. Today, it is becoming more customary to find them in museums.

==== '''Custody''' ====

Commanding Officers are responsible for the safeguarding, care and maintenance, and appropriate manner of display of the guidon. When at rest, the guidon will be displayed in the RCD main Foyer, in a secure case, under guard 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

=== '''STANDARD (or Blue Guidon)''' ===

The Standard (or Blue Guidon) was the Regiments First Guidon. It was presented to the Regiment by King George V, when he was still the Duke of Cornwall and York, in Toronto on 11 October 1901. The Battle Honours "North-West Canada 1885" and "South Africa 1900" were emblazoned on this standard as was the badge of that time, The Royal Cypher and in gold on crimson "Royal Canadian Dragoons". The Standard is currently held in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

=== '''KING'S BANNER (or Union Flag) ''' ===

The King's Banner was presented to the Regiment by His Excellency, The Earl of Minto, The Governor General of Canada, in Toronto on 12 November 1904. Although a cavalry regiment, but having served in South Africa as mounted rifles, the Regiment was so honoured by the King who became Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment. The King's Banner is currently held in the museum at CFB Petawawa.

=== '''SECOND GUIDON''' ===

The Second Guidon was delivered to the Regiment in Belgium and was first carried on parade at Amiens when a detachment of the Regiment dedicated a memorial tablet in the Cathedral of that city. It was officially presented to the Regiment at Bramshott Camp, in England, by His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught in 1919. The Springbok was emblazoned on this red guidon along with the two Battle Honours of North-West Canada 1885 and South Africa 1900.

The Second Guidon was presented to the Regiment a second time, in January 1931, when ten additional Battle Honours for the First World War were approve for emblazonment on the Guidon. The Second Guidon is currently residing in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

=== '''THIRD GUIDON''' ===

The Third Guidon was presented to the Regiment by His Excellency The Governor General of Canada, General G.P. Vanier, in Camp Gagetown, on 23 May 1966, in the name of Queen Elizabeth II. It includes Battle Honours approved for emblazonment from the Second World War. It now resides in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

=== '''FOURTH GUIDON''' ===

The Fourth Guidon, is actually the Fifth Guidon. The Fourth Guidon was stolen from the offices of DHH, along with six other Regimental Colours. A Fifth Guidon was produced, and then presented to the Regiment by His Excellency The Governor General of Canada, The Right Honourable Romeo Leblanc, in CFB Petawawa, on 19 June 1998. It replaces the Third Guidon which was worn from operations in Germany, Cyprus, and the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.

In the meantime, the original "Fourth Guidon" and the other stolen Colours, were recovered from a Surplus Store in Alberta, and returned to DHH, where they await presentation to their Units. That Guidon will replace the current Guidon, once it is worn out and will then be the Regiment's Fifth Guidon.

The Current Guidon, the "Fourth Guidon", resides at the Regiment under guard twenty-four hours a day.

Return to [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] Main Page.

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= '''HONOURS OF PRECEDENCE OF REGIMENTAL STANDARDS AND GUIDONS''' =

Originally, Dragoons had two orders of precedence: in the field they took precedence as "horse" but in garrison they took less precedence as "foot". Dragoons were originally mounted infantry. With their superior speed and carbine firepower they were the shock troops of their day. Gradually their role was assimilated to that of the Cavalry proper and consequently followed the rules of precedence in that arm of service. The precedence continues in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, The Royal Canadian Dragoons having the honour of precedence in the Corps.

== '''STANDARDS AND GUIDONS''' ==

=== '''INTRODUCTION''' ===

The carrying of colours into battle goes back into the dimmest of distant history. The Israelites carried their sacred standard into battle. The Eagles of Rome, in comparison, are almost modern in the passage of time.

It is through more or less the knights of medieval days that the British Army and subsequently the Commonwealth Armies trace the tradition of individual regimental colours. Knights flew their armorial bearings on their pennants so that their own following of bowmen and men-at-arms would know their location and where to rally in the heat of battle.

A cavalry regiment carried as its banner a guidon, which is derived from the French Guydhomme - the guideman or leader of horse who carried the banner into battle. Eventually the word referred to the banner, rather than to the officer who carried the banner. Ever since, guidons have been carried in the British Army.

The Royal Canadian Dragoons are currently in possession of their Fourth Guidon.

=== '''THE GUIDON''' ===

==== '''Traditions''' ====

Today, because of its historic and sentimental value, it is no longer carried into action, or by a unit in a theatre of war. The RCD were the last Canadian Forces Unit to do so, when they returned to Canada from their UNPROFOR deployment to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, on 7 May 1995. The Guidon still continues, however, to be a visible symbol of pride, honour and devotion to sovereign and country.

When presented, guidons are consecrated by the Chaplain General assisted by the unit chaplains. Through this means, the guidon is sanctified and devoted to service as a symbol of honour and duty and all members of the unit, regardless of classification, dedicate themselves to constancy in the maintenance of these qualities. Once consecrated, guidons are closely guarded and, when uncased, they are honoured by the appropriate compliment. Every effort must be made to prevent the loss of the guidon to enemy forces. Any regiment serving overseas at the outbreak of hostilities shall return their guidon to Canada. It is to be destroyed on threat of capture by hostile elements.

In cavalry regiments, the guidon is carried by the senior MWO and escorted by the two most senior WOs with a Sgt as Guidon Orderly. In the past, when cavalry soldiers had to provide their own horses, the class of private soldiers which any cavalry regiment attracted were generally o much higher standing than those who would gravitate to regiments of foot. This superior breed of soldier led to superior Non-Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers. As a tangible symbol of the trust placed in Warrant Officers and Sergeants within the cavalry, the honour of carrying and escorting the guidon was relinquished by the officers.

The only personnel allowed to handle the guidon are the Guidon Bearer, COs and former COs of the Regiment, Colonels and former Honourary Colonels of the Regiment, and the RSM.

Once the guidon is requested, be it a parade or social function, an appointment is to be made with the Regimental Adjutant who unlocks the case so the Bearer can retrieve the guidon. Once drawn, and until it is placed back in the case, the Guidon Party is responsible at all times for the security and safe keeping of the guidon and will not leave it unguarded. On return, the Adjutant must be informed and after the guidon is returned to it's case, the Guidon Party will proceed with the Adjutant to have the traditional glass of sherry with the CO and toast the Regiment.

==== '''Guidon Protocol''' ====

New guidons will not be carried on parade until they have been consecrated and no compliments are to be paid until consecration has been done. Once consecrated and presented, they shall be accorded the highest honours at all times and treated with the greatest of respect and care.

Guidons are transported to and from parades 'cased' in a cover. The Guidon is 'uncased' at the parade, with the Guidon Orderly responsible for the 'case', and then the Guidon is 'Marched On' Parade. When the Guidon is 'Marched off' Parade the Guidon Orderly will replace the Guidon case, for transport.

Guidons are not to be uncased after retreat or before sunrise, unless the location of the parade is illuminated.

Guidons are never uncased in inclement weather. If the guidon is wet, it shall be hung to dry before returning to it's case.

When a guidon is declared non-serviceable, they are 'laid up' and put on public display where they will 'rot on their staff'. In the past, the old Guidons would be 'laid up' in a Church. Today, it is becoming more customary to find them in museums.

==== '''Custody''' ====

Commanding Officers are responsible for the safeguarding, care and maintenance, and appropriate manner of display of the guidon. When at rest, the guidon will be displayed in the RCD main Foyer, in a secure case, under guard 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

=== '''STANDARD (or Blue Guidon)''' ===

The Standard (or Blue Guidon) was the Regiments First Guidon. It was presented to the Regiment by King George V, when he was still the Duke of Cornwall and York, in Toronto on 11 October 1901. The Battle Honours "North-West Canada 1885" and "South Africa 1900" were emblazoned on this standard as was the badge of that time, The Royal Cypher and in gold on crimson "Royal Canadian Dragoons". The Standard is currently held in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

=== '''KING'S BANNER (or Union Flag) ''' ===

The King's Banner was presented to the Regiment by His Excellency, The Earl of Minto, The Governor General of Canada, in Toronto on 12 November 1904. Although a cavalry regiment, but having served in South Africa as mounted rifles, the Regiment was so honoured by the King who became Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment. The King's Banner is currently held in the museum at CFB Petawawa.

=== '''SECOND GUIDON''' ===

The Second Guidon was delivered to the Regiment in Belgium and was first carried on parade at Amiens when a detachment of the Regiment dedicated a memorial tablet in the Cathedral of that city. It was officially presented to the Regiment at Bramshott Camp, in England, by His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught in 1919. The Springbok was emblazoned on this red guidon.

The Second Guidon was presented to the Regiment a second time, in January 1931, when ten additional Battle Honours for the First World War were approve for emblazonment on the Guidon. The Second Guidon is currently residing in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

=== '''THIRD GUIDON''' ===

The Third Guidon was presented to the Regiment by His Excellency The Governor General of Canada, General G.P. Vanier, in Camp Gagetown, on 23 May 1966, in the name of Queen Elizabeth II. It includes Battle Honours approved for emblazonment from the Second World War. It now resides in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

=== '''FOURTH GUIDON''' ===

The Fourth Guidon, is actually the Fifth Guidon. The Fourth Guidon was stolen from the offices of DHH, along with six other Regimental Colours. A Fifth Guidon was produced, and then presented to the Regiment by His Excellency The Governor General of Canada, The Right Honourable Romeo Leblanc, in CFB Petawawa, on 19 June 1998. It replaces the Third Guidon which was worn from operations in Germany, Cyprus, and the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.

In the meantime, the original "Fourth Guidon" and the other stolen Colours, were recovered from a Surplus Store in Alberta, and returned to DHH, where they await presentation to their Units. That Guidon will replace the current Guidon, once it is worn out and will then be the Regiment's Fifth Guidon.

The Current Guidon, the "Fourth Guidon", resides at the Regiment under guard twenty-four hours a day.

Return to [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] Main Page.

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= '''HONOURS OF PRECEDENCE OF REGIMENTAL STANDARDS AND GUIDONS''' =

Originally, Dragoons had two orders of precedence: in the field they took precedence as "horse" but in garrison they took less precedence as "foot". Dragoons were originally mounted infantry. With their superior speed and carbine firepower they were the shock troops of their day. Gradually their role was assimilated to that of the Cavalry proper and consequently followed the rules of precedence in that arm of service. The precedence continues in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, The Royal Canadian Dragoons having the honour of precedence in the Corps.

== '''STANDARDS AND GUIDONS''' ==

=== '''INTRODUCTION''' ===

The carrying of colours into battle goes back into the dimmest of distant history. The Israelites carried their sacred standard into battle. The Eagles of Rome, in comparison, are almost modern in the passage of time.

It is through more or less the knights of medieval days that the British Army and subsequently the Commonwealth Armies trace the tradition of individual regimental colours. Knights flew their armorial bearings on their pennants so that their own following of bowmen and men-at-arms would know their location and where to rally in the heat of battle.

A cavalry regiment carried as its banner a guidon, which is derived from the French Guydhomme - the guideman or leader of horse who carried the banner into battle. Eventually the word referred to the banner, rather than to the officer who carried the banner. Ever since, guidons have been carried in the British Army.

The Royal Canadian Dragoons are currently in possession of their Fourth Guidon.

=== '''THE GUIDON''' ===

==== '''Traditions''' ====

Today, because of its historic and sentimental value, it is no longer carried into action, or by a unit in a theatre of war. The RCD were the last Canadian Forces Unit to do so, when they returned to Canada from their UNPROFOR deployment to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, on 7 May 1995. The Guidon still continues, however, to be a visible symbol of pride, honour and devotion to sovereign and country.

When presented, guidons are consecrated by the Chaplain General assisted by the unit chaplains. Through this means, the guidon is sanctified and devoted to service as a symbol of honour and duty and all members of the unit, regardless of classification, dedicate themselves to constancy in the maintenance of these qualities. Once consecrated, guidons are closely guarded and, when uncased, they are honoured by the appropriate compliment. Every effort must be made to prevent the loss of the guidon to enemy forces. Any regiment serving overseas at the outbreak of hostilities shall return their guidon to Canada. It is to be destroyed on threat of capture by hostile elements.

In cavalry regiments, the guidon is carried by the senior MWO and escorted by the two most senior WOs with a Sgt as Guidon Orderly. In the past, when cavalry soldiers had to provide their own horses, the class of private soldiers which any cavalry regiment attracted were generally o much higher standing than those who would gravitate to regiments of foot. This superior breed of soldier led to superior Non-Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers. As a tangible symbol of the trust placed in Warrant Officers and Sergeants within the cavalry, the honour of carrying and escorting the guidon was relinquished by the officers.

The only personnel allowed to handle the guidon are the Guidon Bearer, COs and former COs of the Regiment, Colonels and former Honourary Colonels of the Regiment, and the RSM.

Once the guidon is requested, be it a parade or social function, an appointment is to be made with the Regimental Adjutant who unlocks the case so the Bearer can retrieve the guidon. Once drawn, and until it is placed back in the case, the Guidon Party is responsible at all times for the security and safe keeping of the guidon and will not leave it unguarded. On return, the Adjutant must be informed and after the guidon is returned to it's case, the Guidon Party will proceed with the Adjutant to have the traditional glass of sherry with the CO and toast the Regiment.

==== '''Guidon Protocol''' ====

New guidons will not be carried on parade until they have been consecrated and no compliments are to be paid until consecration has been done. Once consecrated and presented, they shall be accorded the highest honours at all times and treated with the greatest of respect and care.

Guidons are transported to and from parades 'cased' in a cover. The Guidon is 'uncased' at the parade, with the Guidon Orderly responsible for the 'case', and then the Guidon is 'Marched On' Parade. When the Guidon is 'Marched off' Parade the Guidon Orderly will replace the Guidon case, for transport.

Guidons are not to be uncased after retreat or before sunrise, unless the location of the parade is illuminated.

Guidons are never uncased in inclement weather. If the guidon is wet, it shall be hung to dry before returning to it's case.

When a guidon is declared non-serviceable, they are 'laid up' and put on public display where they will 'rot on their staff'. In the past, the old Guidons would be 'laid up' in a Church. Today, it is becoming more customary to find them in museums.

==== '''Custody''' ====

Commanding Officers are responsible for the safeguarding, care and maintenance, and appropriate manner of display of the guidon. When at rest, the guidon will be displayed in the RCD main Foyer, in a secure case, under guard 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

=== '''STANDARD (or Blue Guidon)''' ===

The Standard (or Blue Guidon) was the Regiments First Guidon. It was presented to the Regiment by King George V, when he was still the Duke of Cornwall and York, in Toronto on 11 October 1901. The Battle Honours "North-West Canada 1885" and "South Africa 1900" were emblazoned on this standard as was the badge of that time, The Royal Cypher and in gold on crimson "Royal Canadian Dragoons". The Standard is currently held in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

=== '''KING'S BANNER (or Union Flag) ''' ===

The King's Banner was presented to the Regiment by His Excellency, The Earl of Minto, The Governor General of Canada, in Toronto on 12 November 1904. Although a cavalry regiment, but having served in South Africa as mounted rifles, the Regiment was so honoured by the King who became Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment. The King's Banner is currently held in the museum at CFB Petawawa.

=== '''SECOND GUIDON''' ===

The Second Guidon was delivered to the Regiment in Belgium and was first carried on parade at Amiens when a detachment of the Regiment dedicated a memorial tablet in the Cathedral of that city. It was officially presented to the Regiment at Bramshott Camp, in England, by His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught in 1919. The Springbok was emblazoned on this red guidon.

The Second Guidon was presented to the Regiment a second time, in January 1931, when ten additional Battle Honours for the First World War were approve for emblazonment on the Guidon. The Second Guidon is currently residing in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

=== '''THIRD GUIDON''' ===

The Third Guidon was presented to the Regiment by His Excellency The Governor General of Canada, General G.P. Vanier, in Camp Gagetown, on 23 May 1966, in the name of Queen Elizabeth II. It includes Battle Honours approved for emblazonment from the Second World War. It now resides in the CFB Petawawa Military Museum.

=== '''FOURTH GUIDON''' ===

The Fourth Guidon, is actually the Fifth Guidon. The Fourth Guidon was stolen from the offices of DHH, along with six other Regimental Colours. A Fifth Guidon was produced, and then presented to the Regiment by His Excellency The Governor General of Canada, The Right Honourable Romeo Leblanc, in CFB Petawawa, on 19 June 1998. It replaces the Third Guidon which was worn from operations in Germany, Cyprus, and the Former Republic of Yugoslavia.

In the meantime, the original "Fourth Guidon" and the other stolen Colours, were recovered from a Surplus Store in Alberta, and returned to DHH, where they await presentation to their Units. That Guidon will replace the current Guidon, once it is worn out and will then be the Regiment's Fifth Guidon.

The Current Guidon, the "Fourth Guidon", resides at the Regiment under guard twenty-four hours a day.

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== Deployments ==
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">North West Canada</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">South Africa</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">France & Belgium (WW I & WW II)</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Sicily & Italy (WW II)</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Liberation of Holland (WW II)</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Korea (UN)</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Germany (NATO)</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Egypt, Sinai, Cyprus (UN)</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Somalia (UN)</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia (UN & NATO)</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Afghanistan (NATO)</div>'''
|-
|}
|}
|}

== BATTLE HONOURS OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN DRAGOONS ==

The following Battle Honours are emblazoned on the present Guidon of The Royal Canadian Dragoons:

# North West Canada 1885
# South Africa 1900
# Festubert 1915
# Somme 1916-18
# Bazentin
# Cambrai 1917-18
# St Quentin
# Amiens
# Hindenburg Line
# Beaurevoir
# Pursuit to Mons
# France and Flanders 1915-18
# Lire Valley
# Gothic Line
# Lamone Crossing
# Italy 1944-45
# Groningen
# North West Europe 1945

The following Battle Honours have also been awarded to The Royal Canadian Dragoons:

# Pozieres
# Flers-Courcelette
# St Quentin Canal
# Misano Ridge
# Sant Angelo in Salute
# Fosso Vecchio
# Bad Zwischenahn

Also of note is The King's Banner, which was presented to the Regiment in 1904 by His Excellency The Governor General of Canada, The Earl of Minto, on behalf of His Royal Highness King Edward VII in recognition of services rendered the Empire in South Africa.

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= Regimental Prayer =

Hear us, almighty God, who offer You our prayers, remember those of the Prince Edward Island Regiment who have stood firm in the years of war and peace to defend our country. Grant to those who have died rest, and to those who remain, strength to uphold freedom and peace. In times of trouble and danger, be with us and give us Your presence and grace to carry out the missions entrusted to us. Grant also, O Lord, that all the world may turn from violence and injustice to seek the true peace for which this Regiment has fought. All glory, dominion and power is Yours now and forever. Amen.

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== Regiments of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps == [[Image:RCAC Outline.JPG|right|400px|thumb|[[Current RCAC Badge]] ]]

(From West to East)

# [[The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own)(RCAC)]] (Vancouver, BC)
# [[The British Columbia Dragoons]] (Kelowna, BC)
# [[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)]] (Edmonton, AB) *
# [[King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)]] (Calgary,AB)
# [[The South Alberta Light Horse]] (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB) (B Sqn)
# [[The Saskatchewan Dragoons]] (Moose Jaw, SK)
# [[The Fort Garry Horse]] (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
# [[The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)]] (Windsor, ON)
# [[The 1st Hussars]] (London and Sarnia, ON)
# [[The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)(RCAC)]] (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
# [[The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)]] (Oshawa, ON)
# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON) *
# [[Le Regiment de Hull (RCAC)]] (Gatineau, PQ)
# [[The Royal Canadian Hussars]] (Montreal and St. Hubert, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Milice)]] (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ) *
# [[The Sherbrooke Hussars]] (Sherbrooke, PQ)
# [[The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)]] (Moncton and Sussex, NB)
# [[The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)]] (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)

NOTE: Regiment's denoted with a * are Regular, the remaining Regiments are Reserve.

=== Seniority - Regular Force Armoured Regiments ===

# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON)
# [[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)]] (Edmonton, AB)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ)

=== Seniority - Reserve Force Armoured Regiments ===

[[Image:Rcac colour.JPG|right|300px|thumb|[[Previous RCAC Badge]]]]
# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
# [[The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)]] (Moncton, Sackville, and Sussex, NB)
# [[The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)]] (Oshawa, ON)
# [[The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)(RCAC)]] (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
# [[The Sherbrooke Hussars]] (Sherbrooke, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Milice)]] (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
# [[The 1st Hussars]] (London and Sarnia, ON)
# [[The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)]] (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)
# [[The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)]] (Montreal, PQ)
# [[The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own)(RCAC)]] (Vancouver, BC)
# [[The South Alberta Light Horse]] (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB)
# [[The Saskatchewan Dragoons]] (Moose Jaw, SK)
# [[King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)]] (Calgary,AB)
# [[The British Columbia Dragoons]] (Kelowna, BC)
# [[The Fort Garry Horse]] (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
# [[Le Regiment de Hull (RCAC)]] (Gatineau, PQ)
# [[The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)]] (Windsor, ON)
[[Image:RCAC RCAC Low Res.jpg|right|235px|thumb|[[RCAC Hat Badge on the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II]]]]
=== Supplementary - Armoured Corps Regiments ===

# [[The Fort Garry Horse (Canadian Army Regular)]]
# [[IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards (RCAC)]]
# [[The Halifax Rifles (RCAC)]]
# [[12th Manitoba Dragoons]]
# [[19th Alberta Dragoons (RCAC)]]
# [[14th Canadian Hussars (RCAC)]]

Note: [[The Elgin Regiment (RCAC)]] converted to Engineers in the 1997 Militia reorganization.

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== Regiments of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps == [[Image:RCAC Outline.JPG|right|400px|thumb|[[Current RCAC Badge]] ]]

(From West to East)

# [[The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own)(RCAC)]] (Vancouver, BC)
# [[The British Columbia Dragoons]] (Kelowna, BC)
# [[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)]] (Edmonton, AB) *
# [[King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)]] (Calgary,AB)
# [[The South Alberta Light Horse]] (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB) (B Sqn)
# [[The Saskatchewan Dragoons]] (Moose Jaw, SK)
# [[The Fort Garry Horse]] (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
# [[The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)]] (Windsor, ON)
# [[The 1st Hussars]] (London and Sarnia, ON)
# [[The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)(RCAC)]] (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
# [[The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)]] (Oshawa, ON)
# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON) *
# [[Le Regiment de Hull (RCAC)]] (Gatineau, PQ)
# [[The Royal Canadian Hussars]] (Montreal and St. Hubert, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Milice)]] (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ) *
# [[The Sherbrooke Hussars]] (Sherbrooke, PQ)
# [[The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)]] (Moncton and Sussex, NB)
# [[The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)]] (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)

NOTE: Regiment's denoted with a * are Regular, the remaining Regiments are Reserve.

=== Seniority - Regular Force Armoured Regiments ===

# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON)
# [[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)]] (Edmonton, AB)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ)

=== Seniority - Reserve Force Armoured Regiments ===

[[Image:Rcac colour.JPG|right|300px|thumb|[[Previous RCAC Badge]]]]
# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
# [[The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)]] (Moncton, Sackville, and Sussex, NB)
# [[The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)]] (Oshawa, ON)
# [[The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)(RCAC)]] (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
# [[The Sherbrooke Hussars]] (Sherbrooke, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Milice)]] (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
# [[The 1st Hussars]] (London and Sarnia, ON)
# [[The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)]] (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)
# [[The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)]] (Montreal, PQ)
# [[The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own)(RCAC)]] (Vancouver, BC)
# [[The South Alberta Light Horse]] (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB)
# [[The Saskatchewan Dragoons]] (Moose Jaw, SK)
# [[King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)]] (Calgary,AB)
# [[The British Columbia Dragoons]] (Kelowna, BC)
# [[The Fort Garry Horse]] (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
# [[Le Regiment de Hull (RCAC)]] (Gatineau, PQ)
# [[The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)]] (Windsor, ON)

=== Supplementary - Armoured Corps Regiments ===

# [[The Fort Garry Horse (Canadian Army Regular)]]
# [[IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards (RCAC)]]
# [[The Halifax Rifles (RCAC)]]
# [[12th Manitoba Dragoons]]
# [[19th Alberta Dragoons (RCAC)]]
# [[14th Canadian Hussars (RCAC)]]

Note: [[The Elgin Regiment (RCAC)]] converted to Engineers in the 1997 Militia reorganization.

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King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)

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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Headquarters: Calgary, AB. </div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Predecessor: 103rd Regiment (Calgary Rifles). </div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Perpetuates: 50th Battalion, CEF. </div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Regimental Birthday: 1 Apr 1910.</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Colonel in Chief: HM Queen Elizabeth II.</div>'''
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|'''<div style="font-size: 80%">Current Role: Reconnaissance </div>'''
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The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) is a Land Force Reserve armoured regiment. The regiment parades regularly at Mewata Armouries (where their headquarters are located) as well as training at the Area Support Centre in Calgary as well as at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright. The Regiment has contributed many men to overseas Peacekeeping missions in recent years, as well as providing instructors and resources for training courses for units throughout the Calgary Garrison and 41 Canadian Brigade Group.

==History==
On 15 May 1924, when the First Battalion of the Calgary Regiment was redesignated simply "[[The Calgary Highlanders|Calgary Highlanders]]" and formed into its own regiment, the Second Battalion of The Calgary Regiment was likewise redesignated to become simply The Calgary Regiment. Thus were born two equally proud units, both direct descendants of the 103rd Regiment (Calgary Rifles) that had been created on 1 April 1910.

The new Calgary Regiment inherited the history of several CEF battalions that had fought in the Great War, including the Battle Honours of the 50th (Calgary) Battalion, and now proudly lay claim also to the memory of John George Pattison (shown at right) who was awarded the Victoria Cross for actions on 10 April 1917 at Vimy Ridge. He was killed in action less than two months later. Seventeen hard earned Battle Honours were granted the 50th for service with the 4th Canadian Division in France and Flanders.

In 1936, after extensive reorganization of the Militia, the Regiment was briefly retitled as a Machine Gun Regiment, and then later in the year redesignated Calgary Regiment (Tank) becoming one of just six Infantry regiments in Canada so designated. In 1939, the unit was not mobilized, and some officers and men enlisted in other units mobilizing for war, including the Calgary Highlanders. Mobilization came in February 1941, as 14th Army Tank Battalion (The Calgary Regiment (Tank))

The home service component of the Calgary Regiment (Tank) was redesignated in April 1941 as the 14th (Reserve) Army Tank Battalion (The Calgary Regiment(Tank)), and in 1942 the designation "Regiment" was subsituted for "Battalion." The former infantry (Tank) regiments, along with the former horse cavalry units, were mechanized and formed the new Canadian Armoured Corps (which would be granted the Royal prefix in 1945).

While this unit trained in Canada as part of the reserve army the overseas battalion trained on a variety of equipment in England, and on 19 August 1942 provided the armour support component of the Dieppe Raid. The history of the Raid is well known. The tanks of the Calgary Regiment were for the most part unable to get off the landing beaches. However, the tank crews resolutely stayed at their posts, finding the armour of their Churchill tanks impervious to the German anti-tank weaponry found defending the beach. Many crews stayed in their tanks until every round of ammunition was expended, covering the landing and eventual withdrawal of the infantry and foot-borne soldiers. Many tank crews thus went into captivity having sacrificed their freedom for the lives of the withdrawing soldiers.

The Regiment was rebuilt in England, becoming the 14th Canadian Armoured Regiment and re-equipping with Sherman tanks. As part of the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade, the unit landed in Sicily in July 1943 and onto the mainland of Italy in September. The brigade fought independently and in support of many different formations during the long campaign in Italy. With the rest of the Canadians in that theatre, they repatriated to First Canadian Army in Holland in the spring of 1945, where they ended the war. Eventually, sixteen more Battle Honours were granted, to join those of the 50th Battalion CEF on the Regimental Guidon.

Several changes in designation occurred postwar.

*22 July 1946: 14th Armoured Regiment (King's Own Calgary Regiment)
*4 Feb 1949: The King's Own Calgary Regiment (14th Armoured Regiment)
*19 May 1958: The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)

When the Highlanders were presented a new Queen's Colour by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in June 1990, the KOCR were also full participants on parade, being inspected by Her Majesty as well as performing a very impressive roll past with their Cougars and Iltis vehicles.

The Regiment is always actively recruiting prospective soldiers interested in the challenges and experiences they will find in a Reserve Armoured Regiment.

==Interesting Facts==
The Regimental March of the King's Own Calgary Regiment is "Colonel Bogey", the same tune that gained popularity in the motion picture The Bridge On The River Kwai. Coincidentally, "Colonel Bogey" was the march adopted by the Tenth Battalion, CEF, forerunners of the Calgary Highlanders.

The motto of the KOCR (as well as the Calgary Highlanders) is ONWARD, also the motto of the City of Calgary.

The first cap badge of the Calgary Regiment was inspired by the Coat of Arms of the City of Calgary. The sunburst violates custom, however, in that the sunburst is above the Crown. When the Regiment was redesignated as King's Own after the Second World War, the offending sunburst was removed. The current badge is still very heavily influenced by the City's coat of arms.

The Regiment has an alliance with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment of the British Army.

[[Category: Armoured Regiments]]

Regiments of the Armoured Corps

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== Regiments of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps == [[Image:RCAC Outline.JPG|right|400px|thumb|[[Current RCAC Badge]] ]]

(From West to East)

# [[The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own)(RCAC)]] (Vancouver, BC)
# [[The British Columbia Dragoons]] (Kelowna, BC)
# [[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)]] (Edmonton, AB) *
# [[King's Own Calgary Regiment]] (Calgary,AB)
# [[The South Alberta Light Horse]] (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB) (B Sqn)
# [[The Saskatchewan Dragoons]] (Moose Jaw, SK)
# [[The Fort Garry Horse]] (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
# [[The Windsor Regiment]] (Windsor, ON)
# [[The 1st Hussars]] (London and Sarnia, ON)
# [[The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)(RCAC)]] (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
# [[The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)]] (Oshawa, ON)
# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON) *
# [[Le Regiment de Hull (RCAC)]] (Gatineau, PQ)
# [[The Royal Canadian Hussars]] (Montreal and St. Hubert, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Milice)]] (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ) *
# [[The Sherbrooke Hussars]] (Sherbrooke, PQ)
# [[The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)]] (Moncton and Sussex, NB)
# [[The Prince Edward Island Regiment]] (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)

NOTE: Regiment's denoted with a * are Regular, the remaining Regiments are Reserve.

=== Seniority - Regular Force Armoured Regiments ===

# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON)
# [[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)]] (Edmonton, AB)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ)

=== Seniority - Reserve Force Armoured Regiments ===

[[Image:Rcac colour.JPG|right|300px|thumb|[[Previous RCAC Badge]]]]
# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
# [[The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)]] (Moncton, Sackville, and Sussex, NB)
# [[The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)]] (Oshawa, ON)
# [[The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)(RCAC)]] (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
# [[The Sherbrooke Hussars]] (Sherbrooke, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Milice)]] (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
# [[The 1st Hussars]] (London and Sarnia, ON)
# [[The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)]] (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)
# [[The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)]] (Montreal, PQ)
# [[The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own)(RCAC)]] (Vancouver, BC)
# [[The South Alberta Light Horse]] (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB)
# [[The Saskatchewan Dragoons]] (Moose Jaw, SK)
# [[King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)]] (Calgary,AB)
# [[The British Columbia Dragoons]] (Kelowna, BC)
# [[The Fort Garry Horse]] (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
# [[Le Regiment de Hull (RCAC)]] (Gatineau, PQ)
# [[The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)]] (Windsor, ON)

=== Supplementary - Armoured Corps Regiments ===

# [[The Fort Garry Horse (Canadian Army Regular)]]
# [[IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards (RCAC)]]
# [[The Halifax Rifles (RCAC)]]
# [[12th Manitoba Dragoons]]
# [[19th Alberta Dragoons (RCAC)]]
# [[14th Canadian Hussars (RCAC)]]

Note: [[The Elgin Regiment (RCAC)]] converted to Engineers in the 1997 Militia reorganization.

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