Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 12.06.2005
 
 

The North Shore
(New Brunswick) Regiment
 
New Brunswick, 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
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  Titles and Lineage
1870.02.25 73rd Northumberland Battalion of Infantry
five companies raised in Active Militia with HQ at Chatham, NB
 
  • No. 1 Company at Newcastle; disbanded 26 Sep.1873 and concurrently replaced by new coy at Buctouche
  • No. 2 Company at Chatham; moved 1 Dec. 1914 to Newcastle
  • No. 3 Company at Black Rock; moved 1 June 1894 to Doaktown; moved 1 May 1905 to Botestown; moved 1 Sep. 1911 to Doaktown
  • No. 4 Company at Black River
  • No. 5 Company at Bay du Vin; moved 1 Sep. 1898 to Black River Bridge
  • No. 6 Company at Campbelltown, raised 1 Dec. 1901
  • No. 7 Company at Richibucto, raised 1 Nov. 1902; moved 15 Dec. 1913 to Dalhousie
  • No. 8 Company at Bathurst, raised 1 Nov. 1902; moved 2 July 1904 to Upper Blackville; moved 1 Dec. 1914 to Chatham
1900.05.08 73rd Northumberland Regiment
1920.03.15 The Northumberland Regiment
reorganised to perpertuate CEF, with HQ at Bathurst:
 
  • 1st Battalion, perpetuating 132nd Battalion CEF
  • 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 165th French Acadian Battalion CEF
1921.03.01 The Northumberland (New Brunswick) Regiment
1922.04.01 The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment
HQ at Newcastle
 
  • HQ Company at Chatham
  • A Company at Chatham
  • B Company at Newcastle
  • C Company at Campbellton
  • D Company at Bathurst
  1940.05.24 reorganised for war:
   
  • [1st Battalion], mobilised in CASF; demobilised 15 Jan. 1946
  • 2nd Battalion, formed in Reserve Army
  • 3rd Battalion, mobilised 1 June 1945 in CAOF; demobilised 13 Apr. 1946
1954.09.30 amalgamated with 28 Field Battery RCA, to form 2nd Battalion, The New Brunswick Regiment (North Shore)
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, by Schoolnet Digital Collections Program
1st Battalion Deployment and Service:
 
Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
  1939.09.01 details mobilised local protective duty
  1940.05.24 bn mobilised
  1941.07.18 at sea
  1941 UK
  1944.06.06 NW Europe 8 Bde, 3 Can Inf Div
  1945.05 Germany?
  at sea
  1946.01.15 demobilised
       
3rd Battalion Deployment and Service:
  1945.06.01 mobilised
  CAOF
  1946.04.13 demobilised
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

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The Second World War: [see successor]
  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
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  Honorary Colonels
     
  Traditions
 
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  Alliances Introduction to Alliances

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