Authors and Contributors this page:
T.F. Mills
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Page created
15 November 2002
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Corrected and updated
22.09.2005
Disclaimers
Royal Canadian Dragoons
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