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The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)

Regimental Crest
© DND
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
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage
1936.12.15 The Essex Regiment (Tank)
raised with HQ and four(?) coys at Windsor, Ont.
1942.01.27 30th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Battalion (Essex Regiment)
1942.06.08 30th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Regiment (Essex Regiment)
1946.04.01 22nd Reconnaissance Regiment (Essex Regiment)
1949.02.04 The Windsor Regiment (22nd Reconnaissance Regiment)
1954.10.01 The Windsor Regiment (22nd Armoured Regiment)
1958.05.19 The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
The Windsor Regiment (RCAC) (Regimental site)
History of the Regiment (Regimental site)
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:
The Windsor Regiment Association (Association site)
The Regimental Association (Regimental site)
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
[no external sites have been found]
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

[none]

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges: Armorial Description: On crossed carbines a tank surmounted by the Crown; across the grips of the carbines a scroll inscribed THE WINDSOR REGIMENT
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
[none]
  Honorary Colonels
Honourary Colonel:
1945.06.01 Col. E.S. Wigle VD [to 5 Oct. 1964]
1964.12.08 Col. The Honourable P. Martin PC CC CD [to 7 Dec. 1980]
1982.04.15 Brig-Gen. W.W Bradley CD [to 18 Nov. 1992]
1993.05.01 Col. J.E. Gibson CD
1998 Colonel West CD
  Traditions
 
Motto: Semper paratus
Nicknames:
Anniversaries:
Freedoms:
Marches: My Boy Willie
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances Introduction to Alliances
1938-1946?
1951-1971

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)

1971-present
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
 
Short Histories: