The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry [Canada]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 08.06.2005

Disclaimers

	The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
	Ontario, 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

Titles and Lineage

Alphabetic Index of Titles
Numeric Index of Titles


	1862.12.11	13th Battalion Volunteer Militia of Canada raised at Hamilton, Ont.
	18uu	13th Battalion of Infantry Hamilton
	1900.05.08	13th Royal Regiment
	1920.05.01	The Royal Hamilton Regiment
	1920.09.01	reorganised to perpetuate CEF:
		1st Battalion, perpetuating 4th Battalion CEF and 13th Battalion CM 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 86th Battalion CEF 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 120th Battalion CEF 4th (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 205th Battalion CEF
	1927.03.15	The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
	1936.12.15	amalgamated with The Wentworth Regiment, to form The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment)

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Regiments


	*History:*
		[no external sites have been found]

Deployment and Service:

Colour Key:

War service

Overseas service

Home service


	*Biography and Gallantry Awards:*
		[no external sites have been found]

	*Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:*
		[no external sites have been found]

	*Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:*
		Regimental Museum, Hamilton (Regimental site)

Battle Honours

Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

Colours, Standards and Guidons

Introduction to Colours

Uniforms and Badges

Badges:

Uniform:

Colonel-in-Chief

Index of Royal Colonels

Honorary Colonels


	1907	Maj-Gen. The Hon. John Morison Gibson, KCMG, VD
	1929	Maj-Gen. The Hon. Sidney Chilton Mewburn, PC, CMG, VD



	Past Senior Appointments of the RHLI (Regimental site)

Traditions


	Motto:
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:
	Marches:
	Musicians:
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*

Alliances

Introduction to Alliances


		The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)	1910-1936

Bibliography

How To Find Books


	Regimental Journal:


	Full Histories:


	Short Histories:


	First World War:
		[see perpetuated CEF battalions]

	Second World War: