IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
| South Africa 1900 | Mount Sorrel | Adrano | Troina Valley | Sicily 1943 | Landing at Reggio |
| Motta Montecorvino | Liri Valley | Hitler Line | Melfa Crossing | Gothic Line | Tomba de Pesaro |
| Sant'Angelo in Salute | Casale | Capture of Ravenna | Naviglio Canal | Italy 1943-45 | North-West Europe 1945 |
From World War I, the unit perpetuated the 8th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles.
The 4th Hussars of Canada in Prescott, Ontario (raised 30 Apr 1875) was amalgamated with the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards 15 Dec 1936
The regiment landed in Sicily in 1943 as the Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division. While in Italy, it was re-roled to infantry and fought as part of the 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade in the 5th Canadian Armoured Division. Later, in Northwest Europe, the unit was put back in its original armd recce role with the 1st Division.
The Halifax Rifles (RCAC)
| Northwest Canada 1885 | South Africa 1899-1900 | Mount Sorrel | Somme 1916 | Arras 1917'18 |
| Hill 70 | Ypres 1917 | Amiens | Hindenburg Line | Pursuit to Mons |
From World War I, the unit perpetuated the 40th C.E.F. Battalion.
The Halifax Rifles were converted to an Army Tank Battalion in 1942 and sailed for England, but the regiment was broken up to provide reinforcements for other units on 1 Nov 1943.
12th Manitoba Dragoons
| North West Canada 1885 | South Africa 1900 | Ypres 1915 | Mount Sorrel |
| Somme 1916'18 | Cambrai 1917 | Amiens | Hindenburg Line |
| Pursuit to Mons | Falaise | Falaise Road | The Laison |
| Chambois | The Rhineland | Bad Zwischenahn | North-West Europe 1944-45 |
From World War I, the unit perpetuated the 6th and 32nd C.E.F. Battalions. The unit also perpetuated the 25th Manitoba Grenadiers 1855-1892.
The Border Horse (raised 1 Apr 1908) was amalgamated with the 12th Manitoba Dragoons on 31 Jan 1935.
In World War II, the unit was known as the 18th Reconnaissance Regiment and served as the Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment for II Canadian Corps.
19th Alberta Dragoons
| Ypres 1915'17 | Gravenstafel | St Julien | Festubert 1915 | Mount Sorrel |
| Somme 1916 | Flers-Courcelette | Ancre Heights | Arras 1917'18 | Vimy 1917 |
| Hill 70 | Amiens | Scarpe 1918 | Drocourt-Queant | Hindenburg Line |
| Canal du Nord | Cambrai 1918 | Pursuit to Mons | France and Flanders 1915-1918 |
From World War I, the unit perpetuated the 9th, 66th, 138th, and 202nd C.E.F. Battalions and the 3rd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles.
This regiment was originally raised on 1 Apr 1908 as the 19th Alberta Mounted Rifles at Edmonton and renamed the 19th Alberta Dragoons in 1911. The Alberta Mounted Rifles (note) was amalgamated 16 Feb 1936. The Edmonton Fusiliers (raised 1 Apr 1908) was amalgamated 1 Apr 1946.
Note: This was a separate regiment raised 1 Apr 1908 in Vegreville as the 32nd Mounted Rifles, renamed 1 Jun 1908 the 21st Alberta Hussars and finally renamed the Alberta Mounted Rifles in 1920.
14th Canadian
Hussars
| Ypres 1915'17 | Festubert 1915 | Arras 1917'18 | Hill 70 | Amiens |
| Hindenburg Line | Pursuit to Mons | Caen | Falaise | Falaise Road |
| Clair Tizon | The Laison | The Seine 1944 | Antwerp-Turnhout Canal | The Scheldt |
| Woensdrecht | South Beveland | The Rhineland | Twente Canal | Gronigen |
| Oldenburg | North-West Europe 1944-45 |
From World War I, the unit perpetuated the 209th C.E.F. Battalion.
In World War II, the unit was known as the 8th Reconnaissance Regiment and served as the Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment for the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, including the D-Day landing.
Regiments are listed in reverse chronological order of disbandment. Only regiments not amalgamated or otherwise perpetuated are listed here.
The Elgin Regiment
| Somme 1916 | Arras 1917 | Ypres 1917 | Amiens |
| Sicily 1943 | Italy 1943-45 | North-West Europe 1944-45 |
The 25th Elgin Battalion of Infantry was raised 14 Sep 1866 in St. Thomas, Ontario. It was disbanded 1 Aug 1903 and reorganized on 17 May 1904. From World War I, the regiment perpetuated the 91st CEF Battalion. The Elgins were mobilized on 24 May 1940 and converted to armour Jan 1942. They served in Italy and Northwest Europe as an armoured delivery regiment. On 17 Aug 1997 the regiment was converted to combat engineers as 31 Combat Engineer Regiment (The Elgins).
The
New Brunswick Regiment (Tank)
2nd/10th Dragoons
The 2nd Dragoons were raised 10 May 1872 in St Catherines, Ontario. The 25th Brant Dragoons (10th Brant Dragoons in 1920) were raised 1 Apr 1910 in Brantford, Ontario. The two were amalgamated 15 Dec 1936. In World War II, the unit performed coastal defence as a part of Atlantic Command.
The 2nd Dragoons were linked by continuity of service with the first independent cavalry corps raised in the province of Upper Canada, the 1st Troop of Lincoln Cavalry, raised 24 Apr 1812. That unit later added other troops and served as the Niagara Dragoons on active duty against the United States from 24 Apr 1812 until 24 Mar 1815.
3rd Prince of Wales' Canadian Dragoons
This unit was converted to infantry in 1936 when it was amalgamated with the Peterborough Rangers to form the Prince of Wales' Rangers (Peterborough Regiment).
16th/22nd Saskatchewan Horse
The 16th Canadian Light Horse (raised 3 Jul 1905) was amalgamated with the 22nd Mounted Rifles (raised 1908) in 1936 to form the 16th/22nd Saskatchewan Horse. In 1941, the unit was amalgamated with the Battleford portion of the Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers to form the Battleford Light Infantry (16th/22nd Saskatchewan Horse). In 1946, the pre-war units were reconstituted and the 16th/22nd Saskatchewan Horse was disbanded. The Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers are now part of the North Saskatchewan Regiment.
The Manitoba Mounted Rifles
1st Canadian Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment
| Le Havre | Boulogne 1944 | The Lower Maas | The Roer | The Rhineland |
| The Reichswald | Cleve | Moyland Wood | Goch-Calcar Road | The Hochwald |
| Xanten | The Rhine | Gronigen | North-West Europe 1944-1945 |
This unit invented the Armoured Personnel Carrier by altering armoured vehicles to carry infantry, first using self-propelled artillery and later using Ram tanks. Also known as "the Kangaroos," this unit of the 1st Canadian Army was assigned to fight with 55 different Canadian and British regiments from 11 different divisions.
2nd
Armoured Car Regiment
After WWI, a machine gun component was added to the Canadian Army; a small Regular Army unit, the Royal Canadian Machine Gun Corps, was established and Non-Permanent Active Militia machine gun brigades were formed in each military district, plus three motor machine gun units. Each brigade consisted of a headquarters plus 3 MG companies, these not necessarily being located at one place. The RCMGC was disbanded in 1923 but the N.P.A.M. machine gunners continued to serve in the Militia. In February 1936 the 1st Machine Gun Squadron amalgamated with the 2nd Motor Machine Gun Brigade forming the 2nd Armoured Car Regiment. This unit amalgamated with the 12th Manitoba Dragoons and the Manitoba Mounted Rifles under the designation 18th Reconnaissance Regiment early in WWII, at which time the regiment went out of existence.
The King's Canadian Hussars
| Mount Sorrel | Somme 1916 | France and Flanders 1915-18 |
From World War I, the unit perpetuated the 6th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles.
British Columbia Hussars
| Ypres 1915 | Festubert 1915 |
In World War I, this unit contributed to the 2nd and 11th Canadian Mounted Rifle Regiments.
18th Canadian Light Horse
The Eastern Townships Mounted Rifles
This unit was raised as the 26th Canadian Horse and called the 26th Stanstead Dragoons from 1912 to 1920.
10th Queen's Own Canadian Hussars
13th Scottish Light Dragoons
This regiment originated in the 52nd Bedford Battalion of Infantry at Knowlton, Quebec. It was renamed the 52nd Brome Battalion in 1872 and was amalgamated into the the 79th Shefford Regiment to form the 79th Shefford and Brome Regiment. This unit was converted to cavalry 1 Feb 1904 and renamed the 13th Scottish Light Dragoons.
9th Grey's Horse
28th New Brunswick Dragoons
35th Central Alberta Horse
33rd Vaudreuil et Soulanges Hussars
This unit was started with members of the 17th Duke of York Royal Canadian Hussars, where they returned when this unit was disbanded.
These units were established under the Militia Act of 1855 in cities, towns, and rural areas, but many had even older origins, in some cases reaching back to the War of 1812. Most were in Upper and Lower Canada and the Maritime provinces, but a few were established in Manitoba, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.
During the 1860's and 1870's, most of the volunteer troops were either organized into regiments or disbanded. A few survived longer, but all were gone by the end of the Nineteenth Century.