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The Governor General's
Horse Guards
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
1855.12.27 1st Troop of Volunteer Militia Cavalry of the County of York
raised at York (Toronto)
1866.04.27 1st York Troop The Governor General's Body Guard for Upper Canada 
1867.07.01 The Governor General's Body Guard for Ontario 
1889.05.17 augmented to regimental status with addition of C Troop and D Troop
 
1895.07.13 The Governor General's Body Guard for Upper Canada 
1936.12.15 The Governor General's Horse Guards
absorbed The Mississauga Horse 
1941.02.11 3rd (Reserve) Armoured  Regiment (The Governor General's Horse Guards)
1943.01.01 3rd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The Governor General's Horse Guards)
1949.02.04 The Governor General's Horse Guards (3rd Armoured Regiment)
1958.05.19 The Governor General's Horse Guards
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
The Governor General's Horse Guards (Army site)
The Governor General's Horse Guards (Regimental site) [web archive]
3rd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The Governor General's Horse Guards), by Chris Johnson (RCAC in World War II)
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Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
       
     
       
       
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
Colin Fraser Barron, VC (3rd Battalion CEF), by Mike Chapman (VC Reference)
George Fraser Kerr, VC (3rd Battalion CEF), by Mike Chapman (VC Reference)
   
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
[no external sites have been found]
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[no external sites have been found]
  Battle Honours

North West Canada 1885, South Africa 1900

The Great War: Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916, Flers-Courcelette, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Hill 70, Ypres 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe 1918, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai 1918, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1915-18

The Second World War: Liri Valley, Melfa Crossing, Gothic Line, Lamone Crossing, Misano Ridge, Fosso Munio, Italy 1944-45, Ijsselmeer, North-West Europe 1945
  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
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  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
1952.02.06 HM Queen Elizabeth II
  Honorary Colonels
Honorary Colonel (the Governor General):
1867 Sir Charles Stanley (Monck), 4th Viscount Monck, GCMG
1869 Sir John (Young), 1st Baron Lisgar, 2nd Bt., KP, KCB, GCMG
1872 Frederick Temple (Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood), 1st Earl of Dufferin, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE
1878 Lt-Col. (Hon.Col.) John Douglas Sutherland (Campbell), 9th Duke of Argyll, KT, GCMG, GCVO, VD
1883 Sir Henry Charles Keith (Petty-Fitzmaurice), 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, 6th Earl of Kerry, GCSI, GCIE
1888 Sir Frederick Arthur (Stanley), 1st Baron Stanley of Preston, 16th Earl of Derby, KG, GCVO, CB
1893 Sir John Campbell Hamilton (Gordon), 7th Earl and 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, GCM, GCVO
1898 Sir Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond (Elliot), 4th Earl of Minto, KG, GCSI, GCMG
1904 Sir Albert Henry George (Grey), 4th Earl Grey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO
1911.10.13 F.M. HRH Arthur William Patrick Albert, 1st Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, KG, KT, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, GBE, VD, TD
1916 Sir Victor Christian William (Cavendish), 9th Duke of Devonshire, KG, GCVO, GCMG
1921 Gen. Sir Julian Hedworth George (Byng), Viscount Byng of Vimy, GCB, GCMG, MVO
1926 Sir Freeman (Freeman-Thomas), 1st Marquess of Willingdon of Ratton, Viscount Ratendone of Willingdon, Baron Willingdon of Ratton, and Viscount Willingdon, GCMG, GCSI, GCIE, GBE
1931 Sir Vere Brabazon (Ponsonby), 9th Earl of Bessborough, GCMG
1935 Sir John (Buchan), 1st Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, CH, GCMG, GCVO
1940.06.02 Maj-Gen. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, KG, PC, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO, ADC
1946 F.M. Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George (Alexander), Viscount Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis and Baron Rideau of Ottawa, and of Castle Derg, KG, GCB, GCMG, CSI, DSO, MC
1952 The Rt. Hon. Charles Vincent Massey, CH
1959 Maj-Gen. The Rt. Hon. Georges Philias Vanier, DSO, MC, CD
1967 The Rt. Hon. Daniel Roland Michener, CC, CCM, CD
1974 The Rt. Hon. Jules Léger, CC, CCM, CD
1979 The Rt. Hon. Edward Richard Schreyer, CC, CCM, CD
1984 The Rt. Hon. Jeanne Mathilde Sauvé, CC, CCM, CD
1990 The Rt. Hon. Ramon John Hnatyshyn, CC, CCM, CD
Colonel of the Regiment (title change 1992 for the Governor General):
1992 The Rt. Hon. Ramon John Hnatyshyn, CC, CCM, CD
1995 The Rt. Hon. Roméo Leblanc, CC, CCM, CD
1999 The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson, CC, CCM, CD
Honorary Colonel (new appointment, 1992):
1992 Col. The Hon. N.N.R. Jackman, OC, CD
2002 Col. Peter W. Hunter, CD
  Traditions
 
Motto: Nulli secundus
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  Alliances Introduction to Alliances
-1969
1st The King's Dragoon Guards
-1959
The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
-1959
1st The Queen's Dragoons Guards 1959-present

The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)

1969-present
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
 
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