12th Manitoba Dragoons [Canada]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 14.07.2006

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	12th Manitoba Dragoons
Regimental Crest © DND	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

Alphabetic Index of Titles
Numeric Index of Titles


	1893.04.07	Manitoba Dragoons formed by conversion of independent infantry companies:
		A Troop at Virden, conversion of Brandon Infantry Coy (late No. 6 Coy, 91st Battalion Manitoba Light Infantry) B Troop at Portage La Prairie, conversion of Portage La Prairie Coy (late No. 2 Coy, 95th Battalion Manitoba Grenadiers)
	1901.06.01	disbanded, less B Troop redesignated as D Squadron, Canadian Mounted Rifles

	1903.07.01	12th Manitoba Dragoons formed with HQ at Brandon, Man., by regimentation of independent B, C, D, E and F Squadrons, Canadian Mounted Rifles; later officially deemed to perpetuate 95th Battalion Manitoba Grenadiers
	1912.04.01	elements separated to form 32nd Light Horse
	1921	reorganised to perpetuate 6th Battalion CEF and 32nd Battalion CEF
	1935.01.31	absorbed The Border Horse* without change of title (HQ at Virden)*
		A Squadron at Virden B Squadron at Souris C Squadron at Minnedosa
	1941	reorganised for war:
		18th (Manitoba) Reconnaissance Battalion, mobilised 10 May 1941; redesignated 26 Jan. 1942 as 18th (Manitoba) Armoured Car Regiment; disbanded 31 Jan. 1946 12th (Reserve) Manitoba Dragoons, organised in Reserve Army
	1946.04.01	18th Armoured Car Regiment (12th Dragoons) reconstituted in Militia with HQ at Virden
	1949.02.04	12th Manitoba Dragoons (18th Armoured Car Regiment)
	1954.10.01	12th Manitoba Dragoons (18th Armoured Regiment)
	1958.05.19	12th Manitoba Dragoons
	1964.12.31	disbanded (placed on Supplemental Order of Battle)

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Regiments


		18th Armoured Car Regiment (12th Manitoba Dragoons), by Chris Johnson (RCAC in World War II)

Deployment and Service [1941-1946]:

Colour Key:

War service

Overseas service

Home service

1941.05

mobilised

1942.09

at sea

1942

England

1944.07.08

France: Normandy

1944.07

NW Europe

2 Can Corps Troops

1945.05.04

Germany

at sea

1946.01.31

disbanded in Canada


	*Biography and Gallantry Awards:*
		LCpl. Danny Slator (1926-1944), by Kevin Slator.

	*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


	North West Canada 1885¹, South Africa 1900 The Great War: The Second World War²: Falaise, Falaise Road, The Laison, Chambois, The Rhineland, Bad Zwischenahn, North-West Europe 1944-1945 1. awarded 1914 for service of 95th Battalion 2. awarded 1958.

Colours, Standards and Guidons

Introduction to Colours


	Record of Colours:

Uniforms and Badges

Badges:

Armorial Description: A buffalo charging on a prairie; the prairie inscribed in the centre with the Roman numeral XII; below a scroll inscribed MANITOBA DRAGOONS.

Uniform:

Colonel-in-Chief

Index of Royal Colonels


	[none]

Honorary Colonels

Traditions


	Motto:	Ubique honor et equis
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:
	Marches:	Colonel Bogey
	Musicians:
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*

Alliances

Introduction to Alliances


		12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)	-1960
		9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)	1960-1964

Bibliography

How To Find Books


	Regimental Journal:
		*The Staghound*. Brandon : XII Manitoba Dragoons Association, 1980-

	Full Histories:
		Tascona, Bruce. XII Manitoba Dragoons, 1885-1991. Altona : Regimental Association (printed by Friesen Printers), 1991.

	First World War:
		[see perpetuated CEF battalions]

	Second World War:
		Henry, C.E. Regimental history of the 18th Armoured Car Regiment (XII Manitoba Dragoons), France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, 8 July 1944-4 May 1945. Deventer, Netherlands : Nederlandse Diepdruk Inrichting, 1945.