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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 01.12.2004
 
 

12th Manitoba Dragoons
 
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
1893.04.07 Manitoba Dragoons
formed by conversion of independent infantry companies:
 
  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 (SOB)
  History (Links) & War Service
  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 1885, South Africa 1900

The Great War:

The Second World War: Falaise, Falaise Road, The Laison, Chambois, The Rhineland, Bad Zwischenahn, North-West Europe 1944-45
  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
     
  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:
Full Histories:
Tascona, Bruce. XII Manitoba Dragoons, 1885-1991. Altona : Regimental Association (printed by Friesen Printers), 1991.
 
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.