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Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 14.07.2006
 
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14th Canadian Hussars

Regimental Crest
© DND
Saskatchewan, 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
1910.04.01 27th Light Horse
raised at Swift Current, Sask.
1914 contributed volunteers to 5th Battalion CEF
  raised 209th Battalion CEF
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
 
  • HQ Squadron at Shaunavon
  • A Squadron at Maple Creek
  • B Squadron at Swift Current
  • C Squsdron at Climax
1940.08.01 14th Canadian Hussars
1941.04.01 8th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Battalion (14th Canadian Hussars)
1942.06.08 8th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars)
1947.06.19 8th Armoured Car Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars)
1949.02.04 14th Canadian Hussars (8th Armoured Car Regiment)
1954.07.30 14th Canadian Hussars (8th Armoured Regiment)
1958.05.19 14th Canadian Hussars 
1965.03.31 disbanded (placed on Supplemental Order of Battle)
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
pip 8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars), by Chris Johnson (RCAC in World War II)
Deployment and Service:
 
Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
       
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Biography and Gallantry Awards:
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Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
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Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

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

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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Record of Colours:
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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.
Uniform: blue; facings: white
headdress (1940?): black-brown busby with white bag and white plume
   
   
     
   
   
  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
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  Honorary Colonels
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  Traditions
 
Motto: Free and fearless
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Marches: Bonnie Dundee
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Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances Introduction to Alliances
   
UK flag 14th King's Hussars
-1922
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14th/20th The King's Royal Hussars

1922-1965
New Zealand flag Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles
 
 
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
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Full Histories:
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