Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 15 October 2000. Corrected and updated 21.02.2005
 
 

The Royal Westminster Regiment
 
British Columbia, 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 104th Regiment
formed with HQ at New Westminster, BC, from a nucleus of 6th Regiment (The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles); the Army recognises lineage starting with the 5th British Columbia Provisional Regiment of Garrison Artillery in 1883, but the regiment claims origins in the 1863 New Westminster Volunteer Rifle Corps
 
  • A Company at New Westminster, redesignation of A Coy, 6th Regiment (The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles)
  • A Company at New Westminster, redesignation of B Coy, 6th Regiment (The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles)
  • C Company at New Westminster, raised 1 Apr. 1910
  • D Company at New Westminster, raised 1 Apr. 1910
  • E Company at Chilliwack, raised 1 Apr. 1912
  • F Company at New Westminster, raised 1 Apr. 1913
  • G Company at Chilliwack, raised 1 Apr. 1913
  • H Company at Cloverdale, raised 1 Apr. 1913; moved later to Chilliwack
1913.12.15 104th Regiment "Westminster Fusiliers of Canada"
1914 104th Regiment (Westminster Fusiliers of Canada)
1914.08.22 formed 7th Battalion, CEF
1920.03.20 amalgamated with 6th Regiment (The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles) to form
3rd Battalion, 1st British Columbia Regiment
1924.05.15 The Westminster Regiment
re-formed by reorganisation of 1st British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own):
 
1936.12.15 The Westminster Regiment (M.G.)
absorbed C Company, 11th Machine Gun Battalion, CMGC; HQ at New Westminster
 
  • A Company at New Westminster
  • B Company at New Westminster
  • C Company at Mission
  • D Company at Chilliwack
1941.04.01 The Westminster Regiment (Motor)
1954.10.06 The Westminster Regiment
1966.12.09 The Royal Westminster Regiment
  • A Company at New Westminster
  • B Company at Mastaqui; moved later to Aldergrove
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
The Royal Westminster Regiment (Army site)
The Royal Westminster Regiment (Regimental site) [internet archive]
The Royal Westminster Regiment (unofficial Regimental site) [internet archive]
The Royal Westminster Regiment, by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
 
Cadets:
1838 Royal Westminster Regiment RCACC, Maple Ridge
1922 Royal Westminster Regiment RCACC, Aldergrove
2822 Royal Westminster Regiment RCACC, Surrey
2316 Royal Westminster Regiment RCACC, New Westminster
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:
Museum of The Royal Westminster Regiment Historical Society (Regimental site) [internet archive]
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

The Great War: [awarded battle honours for services of 47th Battalion CEF and 131st Battalion CEF:] Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Hill 70, Ypres 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, France and Flanders 1916-18

The Second World War: Liri Valley, Melfa Crossing, Gothic Line, Coriano, Lamone Crossing, Misano Ridge, Casale, Naviglio Canal, Italy 1944-45, Ijsselmeer, Delfzijl Pocket, North-West Europe 1945
  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges: Armorial Description: On a demi sun resting on a scroll inscribed The Royal Westrninster Regiment, a maple leaf surcharged with a beaver ensigned with the imperial crown and resting on a scroll inscribed PRO RECE ET PATRIA.
Uniform:
   
   
cap badge
   
   
   
  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
Maj-Gen. Gerald Cavendish (Grosvenor), 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, OBE, TD, DL [also Col. Cmdt. Yeomanry; Hon. Col. R Merc&Lanc Yeo, 7th Regt AAC]
  Honorary Colonels
  Traditions
 
Motto: Pro rege et patria
Nicknames: The Westies
Anniversaries:
Freedoms:
Marches:
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances Introduction to Alliances
The Royal Munster Fusiliers 1913-1920
The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers
-1968
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers 1968-present
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
 
Short Histories: