Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 29.10.2005
 
 

The Manitoba Rangers
and
26th Field Regiment, RCA

 
Manitoba, Canada  
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms

  Colonel-in-Chief
  Honorary Colonels
 Traditions
 Alliances
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time Reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage
 
1908.04.01 98th Regiment
raised as a rifles regiment with HQ at Brandon, Man.
 
  • A Company at Brandon
  • B Company at Brandon
  • C Company at Portage La Prairie; redesignated 1 Apr. 1910 as D Coy
  • D Company at Portage La Prairie; redesignated 1 Apr. 1910 as E Coy
  • E Company at Carberry; moved 1 Apr. 1910 to Brandon and redesignated as C Coy
  • F Company at Souris; moved 16 June 1913 to Brandon
1910.06.01 99th Regiment of Rifles
1911.05.01 99th Manitoba Rangers
1920.03.15 The Manitoba Rangers
reorganised to perpetuate CEF:
 
  • 1st Battalion, perpetuating 45th Battalion CEF
  • 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 79th Battalion CEF
  • 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 181st Battalion CEF
1936.12.15 26th Field Brigade, RCA
converted to artillery and absorbed 59 Battery (from independent status)
 
  • 37 Battery at Portage La Prairie
  • 59 Battery at Brandon
  • 70 Battery at Brandon
  • 71 Battery (Howitzer) at Brandon
1946.04.01 26th Field Regiment (Self-Propelled), RCA
reconstituted in Reserves with HQ at Brandon
 
  • 70 Battery at Fort Francis; moved later to Dauphin
  • 71 Battery at Brandon
  • 159 Battery at Brandon
1954.10.01 batteries reorganised:
 
  • 38 Battery at Portage La Prairie, transferred from 48 Anti-Tank Regt
  • 70 Battery at Dauphin
  • 71 Battery at Brandon
1955.03.25 70 Field Bty transferred to 40 Medium Regt and redesignated 121 Medium Battery
1960.04.12 26th Field Artillery Regiment (Self-Propelled), RCA
1964.11.01 26th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA
1965.01.31 batteries reorganised:
  • 13 Battery at Virden, transferred from disbanded 39 Field Regt; moved 1 Apr. 1970 to Portage La Prairie
  • 19 Battery at Neepawa, transferred from disbanded 39 Field Regt
  • 38 Battery at Portage La Prairie; moved 31 May 1968 to Brandon
  • 70 Battery at Dauphin
  • 71 Battery at Brandon
1970.04.01 19 Bty, 38 Bty and 70 Bty disbanded (placed on Supplemental Order of Battle)
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
26th Field Artillery Regiment (RCA regimental site)
Deployment and Service:
 
Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
       
     
       
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external sites have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
[no external sites have been found]
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
XII Manitoba Dragoons and 26 Fd. Regt RCA Museum, Brandon, MT, by Bill Hillman.
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

The Great War:

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges:
Uniform: scarlet; facings: lincoln green
   
   
     
   
   
  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
[none]
  Honorary Colonels
     
  Traditions
 
Motto: Semper paratus
Nicknames:
Anniversaries:
Freedoms:
Marches:
Musicians: Pipes and Drums formed 21 Mar. 1949, the first artillery unit in the British Commonwealth to have an authorized pipe band.
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances Introduction to Alliances

The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)

-1970
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
 
Short Histories: