Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills, Gord Crossley
Page created 1 October 2000. Corrected and updated 01.12.2004
 

The Fort Garry Horse
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
  1871-1874 independent troops formed in greater Winnipeg region:
 
  • The St. Boniface Troop of Cavalry, raised 1 Sep. 1871 at St. Boniface; disbanded 27 Mar. 1874
  • The Headingley Troop of Cavalry, raised 7 Dec. 1871 at Headingley; redesignated later as Headingley Rifle Company (for mounted patrol duty); disbanded 23 Feb. 1872
 
  1878.09.20 The Winnipeg Troop of Cavalry
raised at Winnipeg, Man.
  189u Winnipeg Dragoons
  1898.03.01 disbanded
 
1912.04.15 34th Regiment of Cavalry
formed at Winnipeg, Man., by expansion of A Squadron, 18th Mounted Rifles
 
  • A Squadron at Stonewall, Teulon and Balmoral
  • B Squadron at Selkirk
  • C Squadron at St. Norbert, Niverville and Otterburn
  • D Squadron at Marquette
1913.01.02 34th Fort Garry Horse
1914.08.30 volunteers contributed to 6th Battalion CEF (later Canadian Cavalry Depot, later The Fort Garry Horse)
1920.03.15 The Fort Garry Horse
1921 reorganised to perpetuate The Fort Garry Horse of CEF
1936.12.15 absorbed The Manitoba Horse without change of title, inheriting its battle honours and perpetuations (HQ at Winnipeg)
 
  • A Squadron at Winnipeg
  • B Squadron at Gunton
  • C Squadron at Dauphin
1939-1945 reorganised for war:
 
  • The Fort Garry Horse, CASF, mobilised 1 Sep. 1939; redesignated 11 Feb. 1941 as 10th Armoured Regiment (The Fort Garry Horse), disbanded 31 Jan. 1946
  • 10th (Reserve) Armoured Regiment (The Fort Garry Horse), formed 1 Sep. 1940 as Flin Flon and Dauphin Manitoba Volunteer Reserve with HQ at Flin Flon; redesignated 1 Mar. 1942; disbanded 1945
1946.04? The Fort Garry Horse
reconstituted in Militia
1949.02.04 The Fort Garry Horse (10th Armoured Regiment)
1958.10.11 1st Fort Garry Horse
[Regular Force]
 
2nd Fort Garry Horse
[Militia]
1960.01.01 The Fort Garry Horse
(two regiments)
1970.06.15 Regular Force component disbanded
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
The Fort Garry Horse (Army site)
The Fort Garry Horse (Regimental site)
The Fort Garry Horse Foundation (Regimental site)
A Brief Regimental History (Regimental site)
10th Armoured Regiment (The Fort Garry Horse), by Chris Johnson (RCAC in World War II)
Fort Garry Horse Deployment and Service [1916-1920]
Fort Garry Horse [Regular Force] Deployment and Service [1958-1970]
   
Cadets:
1226 Fort Garry Horse Cadet Corps (Regimental site)
  10th Armoured Regiment Deployment and War Service [1939-1946]:
 
Colour Key:
War service
Overseas service
Home service
  1939.09.01 mobilised in CASF 2 Can Div
  1940.06 Ontario: Red Rock PW guard duty
  1940.09.01 Ontario: Camp Borden 1 Can Army Tank Bde
  1941.05 1 Can Armd Bde, 5 Can Armd Div
1941.11.09 at sea ship: SS Oronsay
  1941.11.22 England: Liverpool aaa
  1941 Aldershot, later Headley
  1942.12 Hove, Sussex 3 Can Army Tank Bde
  1943.07 Sussex 2 Can Armd Bde, 3 Can Inf Div
  1944.06.06 NW Europe 2 Can Armd Bde, 3 Can Inf Div
  1945.05.03 Germany: Oldenburg
  1945 Netherlands: Doetinchem
  1945.11.30 at sea
  1945 Canada
  1946.01.31 disbanded
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference)
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
The Fort Garry Horse Regimental Association (Regimental site)
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
The FGH Museum and Archives, Winnipeg (Regimental site)
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

Fish Creek, Batoche, North West Canada 18851

The Great War:2 Somme 1916 '18, Bazentin, Pozieres, Flers-Courcelette, Hill 70, Ypres 1917, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Amiens, Arras 1918, Hindenburg Line, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1916-18

The Second World War: Normandy Landing, Caen, Carpiquet, Falaise, Falaise Road, The Laison, Boulogne 1944, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, The Scheldt, Woensdrecht, The Rhineland, Goch-Calcar Road, The Hochwald, Groningen, Oldenburg, North-West Europe 1944-45

1. inherited 1936 from The Manitoba Horse
2. awarded for service of The Fort Garry Horse of CEF
  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
First Guidon (Militia unit) presented 11 May 1963 at Winnipeg by the Hon. Eric F. Willis, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
First Guidon (Regular unit) presented 14 Aug. 1964 at Fort Beausejour, Germany, by F.M. Earl Alexander of Tunis; laid up 6 June 1970 in Manitoba Legislature.
 
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges: Armorial Description (1913): the Fort Garry Gate resting on a scroll inscribed FACTA NON VERBA
Armorial Description (1920): Superimposed on the centre of a bronze maple leaf, the Fort Garry Gate in silver resting on a silver scroll inscribed FORT GARRY HORSE (inherited from Fort Garry Horse of CEF)
Uniform: Winnipeg Troop (1878): scarlet; facings: yellow; headdress: brass dragoon helmet, red plume.
FGH (1912): scarlet; facings: yellow; khaki breeches with narrow black stripe, later midnight blue overalls with yellow stripe; headdress: white Wolseley helmet with white pugaree.
 
 
   
     
   
   
  Colonel-in-Chief
[none]  
  Honorary Colonels
  Colonel:
1937 Lt-Gen. P.J. Montague, CB, CMG, DSO, MC, VD, CD
1962 Col. J.M. Dunwoody, DSO, ED
1968 Maj-Gen. B.F. McDonald, DSO, CD
Honorary Colonel:
1973 Col. William Jack McKeag, CM, CD
2000 Col. Gary Solar, CD
  Traditions
 
Motto: Facta non verba
Nicknames: the Garrys
Anniversaries: Formation Day (15 Apr.), Cambrai (20 Nov.)
Freedoms: Winnipeg (20 Sept 1997)
Other: Woensdrecht named "Fort Garry Horse Straat" 1964 in honour of 1944 liberation by regiment; Doetinchem has a "Clubhuis Fort Garry Horse" (community centre) across from "Canada Park" containing an FGH Sherman tanks, the park and streets (named after Canadian cities) having been built by FGH when stationed there after the war, while awaiting repatriation
Marches: Quick: El Abanico (inherited from 6th Battalion CEF)
  Quick: St. Patrick's Day (alternate adopted ca. 1926)
  Slow (1960): Red River Valley
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances Introduction to Alliances

4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards

1926-1992
The Royal Dragoon Guards 1992-present
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
Service, G. T. ; Marteinson, J. K. The gate : a history of the Fort Garry Horse. Calgary : Commercial Printers, 1971.
 
Second World War:
Vanguard; the Fort Garry Horse in the Second World War. [Doetinchém, Netherlands : Uitgevers-Maatachappij], 1945.
Vanguard : the Fort Garry Horse in the Second World War. [2nd ed.] Winnipeg : Fort Garry Horse Association, 1980. [Limited ed. of 500 copies]
Wilson, E. M. (Eric Mackay) (ed.).Vanguard : the Fort Garry Horse in the Second World War. [3rd ed.] Winnipeg : Fort Garry Horse Museum and Archives, 1995. ISBN: 0969949200
 
Manuscripts & Archives:
"Deeds not Words , a History of the Fort Garry Horse 1912-1936", Mss., 1937, Regimental Museum. [to be published ca. 2005]