Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 15.06.2005
 
 

The Simcoe Foresters
 
Ontario, Canada  
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons
  Badges and Uniforms

  Colonel-in-Chief
  Honorary Colonels
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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
1856.03.20 1st Barrie Rifle Company raised in Volunteer Militia
1860.04.26 Barrie Rifle Coy regimented with other independent companies to form 2nd Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles [its No. 1 Coy]
1866.09.14 35th Simcoe Battalion of Infantry
formed with HQ at Barrie, Ont., by regimentation of existing companies:
 
  • No. 1 Company at Barrie, transferred from 2nd Battalion
  • No. 2 Company at Collingwood
  • No. 3 Company at Cookstown; transferred 2 Apr. 1886 as No. 6 Coy, 36th Battalion; new coy formed 2 Apr. 1886 at Jarrett's Corners be redesignation of No. 6 Coy, 36th Battalion; moved 28 Dec. 1895 to Coldwater; moved 1 Apr. 1899 to Orillia
  • No. 4 Company at Bradford; moved 20 July 1873 to Vespra; moved 1 June 1911 to Collingwood
  • No. 5 Company at Barrie
  • No. 6 Company at Oro; moved 9 July 1878 to Bradford; moved 28 Apr. 1882 to Ivy; moved 12 Feb. 1886 to Huntsville; moved 1 May 1907 to Elmvale; moved 1 June 1910 to Midland
  • No. 7 Company at Orillia
  • No. 8 Company at Bowmore, raised 10 Nov. 1866; moved later to Duntroon; disbanded by 1886
  • No. 9 Company at Bond Head; redesignated 5 Jan. 1871 as No. 8 Coy; redesignated 2 Apr. 1886 as No. 6 Coy, 36th Battalion
  • No. 10 Company at Rosemount, raised 28 Dec. 1866; redesignated 5 Jan. 1871 as No. 9 Coy; moved 5 Aug. 1881 to Alliston; redesignated 2 Apr. 1886 as No. 5 Coy, 36th Battalion
  • [new] No. 10 Company at Wyebridge, raised 7 June 1872; moved 14 Nov. 1879 to Penetanguishene; redesignated 2 Apr. 1886 as No. 8 Coy; moved 28 Dec. 1895 to Midland; moved 1 Aug. 1900 to Penetangushene; moved 15 June 1912 to Elmvale
1867.04.05 35th Battalion "The Simcoe Foresters"
1900.05.08 35th Regiment "Simcoe Foresters"
1914 35th Regiment (Simcoe Foresters)
1920.05.01 The Simcoe Foresters
1920.12.15 reorganised to perpetuate CEF:
 
  • 1st Battalion, perpetuating 157th Battalion CEF
  • 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 177th Battalion CEF
1936.12.15 amalgamated with The Grey Regiment, to form The Grey and Simcoe Foresters
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
The Grey and Simcoe Foresters (Regimental site)
The Grey and Simcoe Foresters, by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

North West Canada 1885

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  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
 
  Honorary Colonels
  Traditions
 
Motto: Spectemur agendo (adopted 5 Apr. 1867)
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