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1910.04.01 |
27th Light
Horse
raised at Swift Current, Sask. |
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1914 |
contributed
volunteers to 5th Battalion CEF |
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raised
209th Battalion CEF |
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1920.03.15 |
14th Canadian
Light Horse
reconstituted in Militia at Swift Current,
Sask., and reorganised to perpetuate 209th Battalion CEF; HQ moved
by 1939 to Climax |
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- HQ Squadron at Shaunavon
- A Squadron at Maple Creek
- B Squadron at Swift Current
- C Squsdron at Climax
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1940.08.01 |
14th Canadian
Hussars |
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1941.04.01 |
8th (Reserve)
Reconnaissance Battalion (14th Canadian Hussars) |
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1942.06.08 |
8th (Reserve)
Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) |
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1947.06.19 |
8th Armoured
Car Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) |
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1949.02.04 |
14th Canadian
Hussars (8th Armoured Car Regiment) |
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1954.07.30 |
14th Canadian
Hussars (8th Armoured Regiment) |
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1958.05.19 |
14th Canadian
Hussars |
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1965.03.31 |
disbanded
(placed on Supplemental Order of Battle) |
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War
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Overseas
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Home
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Biography
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The Great War:1
Ypres 1915 '17, Festubert 1915, Arras 1917 '18, Hill 70, Amiens,
Hindenburg Line, Pursuit to Mons
The Second World War: Caen,
Falaise,
Falaise Road, Clair Tizon, The Laison, The Seine 1944, Antwerp-Turnhout
Canal, The Scheldt, Woensdrecht, South Beveland, The
Rhineland, Twente Canal, Groningen, Oldenburg, North-West Europe
1944-1945
1. awarded for service of 209th Battalion CEF
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Badges: |
A bucking horse
Or above a scroll Argent edged Or inscribed FREE & FEARLESS in letters
Sable, set on a like scroll inscribed 14TH CANADIAN HUSSARS. |
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blue; facings:
white
headdress (1940?): black-brown busby with white bag and white
plume |
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Motto: |
Free and fearless |
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Bonnie Dundee |
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Full Histories: |
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