The Middlesex Light Infantry [Canada]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 1 November 2002. Corrected and updated 08.06.2005

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	The Middlesex 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


	1800	Regiment of Middlesex formed in Sedentary Militia
		1st Battalion 2nd Battalion <1812>
	1866.09.14	26th Middlesex Battalion of Infantry formed in Active Militia with HQ at London, Ont., by regimentation of independent companies:
		No. 1 Company at Delaware, raised 30 Jan. 1863 No. 2 Company (Lobo) at Komoka, raised 17 July 1861 No. 3 Company at Harriettsville, raised 6 Feb. 1863 No. 4 Company at Thamesford, raised 11 Sep. 1862 No. 5 Company at Lucan, raised 19 Dec. 1862 No. 6 Company at Wardsville, raised 2 Jan. 1863 No. 7 Company at Strathroy, raised 8 June 1866
	1880.03.24	26th Middlesex Battalion of Light Infantry
	??	HQ moved to Strathroy, Ont.
	1900.05.08	26th Regiment (Middlesex Light Infantry)
	1920.04.01	The Middlesex Light Infantry
	1921.06.01	reorganised to perpetuate CEF:
		1st Battalion, perpetuating 135th Battalion CEF 2nd (Reserve) Battalion
	1936.12.15	amalgamated with The Huron Regiment, to form The Middlesex and Huron Regiment

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Regiments


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Deployment and Service:

Colour Key:

War service

Overseas service

Home service


	*Biography and Gallantry Awards:*
		1828 Militia Men of Malahide Township Elgin County, Upper Canada [2nd Regiment Middlesex Militia]

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

	*Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:*
		[no external sites have been found]

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

Traditions


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

Alliances

Introduction to Alliances


		The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)	-1936

Bibliography

How To Find Books


	Regimental Journal:


	Full Histories:


	Short Histories:


	First World War:
		[see perpetuated CEF battalions]

	Second World War: