Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 15 November 2002. Corrected and updated 22.09.2005
1892-present
Canada  
Note:This is a battalion history of the Regular Army. See the main regimental page for full lineage and other information.
Colour Key
Lineage
War service
Overseas service
Home service
 
     
  1892.05.24 Canadian Dragoons
       
     
       
  1893.05.24 The Royal Canadian Dragoons
       
     
       
  <1914.08> Quebec: Valcartier Camp
  1914 at sea
  1914.10 England
  1915.05 France
  1915.05 France and Flanders 1 Can Div (dismounted)
  191u France and Flanders Can Cav Bde
       
       
     
       
  1941.02.11 1st Armoured Car Regiment (Royal Canadian Dragoons)
       
     
       
  1946.01 Canada: Camp Borden
  1946.10.16 1st Armoured Regiment (Royal Canadian Dragoons)
  1946 Canada: Camp Borden  
  1949.03.02 Royal Canadian Dragoon (1st Armoured Regiment)
  1949 Canada
  1951.06 1st Armoured Squadron
formed with one troop each of volunteers from 8th Hussars, Halifax Rifles, Prince Edward Island Regiment, Régiment de Trois Rivières, Régiment de Hull
  1951.11 1st Armoured Sqn redesignated D Squadron (personnel rebadged RCD later)
  1951.11 Germany [C Sqn] 27 Bde
  1953.07 D Sqn disbanded
1953.10 Canada
  1954.04 Korea [D Sqn] 25 Bde
  1954.11 Canada
  1955.10 Germany [A Sqn]
  1957.08 Canada
  1957.09 Germany: Iserlohn 4 Can Inf Bde
  1958.05.19 Royal Canadian Dragoons
  1959.02 Sinai [D Sqn] UNEF I
  1960.02 Canada: CFB Gagetown
  1962.02 Sinai [A Sqn] UNEF I
  1963.02 Canada: CFB Gagetown
  1964.03 Cyprus [one sqn] UNFICYP
  1964.10 Canada: CFB Gagetown
  1965.05 Cyprus [A Sqn] UNFICYP
  1965.09 Cyprus [B Sqn] UNFICYP
  1966.04 Canada: CFB Gagetown
  1967.04 Cyprus [A Sqn] UNFICYP
  1967.10 Canada: CFB Gagetown
  1970 C Sqn and D Sqn disbanded
  1970.06.15 Germany: Iserlohn
  1970.10 Lahr
  1978 C Sqn re-formed at Gagetown (as "fly-over" reinforcement for Germany)
  1978 Lahr
  1987 Canada: CFB Petawawa
  1989.03 Cyprus UNFICYP
  1989.09 Canada: CFB Petawawa
  1993.01 Somalia [A Sqn] UNOSOM
  1993.06 Canada: CFB Petawawa
  1994.10 Bosnia UNPROFOR
  1995.05 Canada: CFB Petawawa
  1996.01 Bosnia [A Sqn] IFOR
  1996.06 Canada: CFB Petawawa
  1999.12 Kosovo [recce sqn] MNB(C), KFOR
  2000.06 Canada  
  2003.08 Afghanistan: Kabul [D Sqn] KMNB, ISAF [to Jan. 2004]
  2003.09 Bosnia [A Sqn] SFOR
  2004.03 Canada: CFB Petawawa
  2005.01 Afghanistan: Kabul [B Sqn] KMNB, ISAF
  2005.08 Afghanistan: Kabul [D Sqn] KMNB, ISAF
  2006.01 Canada: CFB Petawawa