Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 29.09.2004
 

The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
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
1920.03.15 The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
formed with HQ at Belleville, Ont., by amalgamation of 16th Prince Edward Regiment, and 49th Regiment (Hastings Rifles)
 
  • 1st Battalion, perpetuating 39th Battalion CEF
  • 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 80th Battalion CEF
  • 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 254th Battalion CEF
1945.06.01 mobilised 2nd Battalion (HPER), 1st Canadian Infantry Regiment
1951.05.04 volunteers raised ? Company (HPER), 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion
1952.04.01 volunteers raised ? Company (HPER), 2nd Canadian Infantry Battalion
1954.09.01 absorbed The Midland Regiment, and 9 Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Self-Propelled) (The Argyll Light Infantry) RCA without change of title
1969 B Coy reconstituted at Peterborough by amalgamation of some personnel of disbanded 50th Medium Anti-Aircraft Regiment (The Prince of Wales Rangers), RCA and 28th RCEME
1995? companies redesignated:
 
  • Assoro Coy, at Belleville, formerly C Coy
  • Moro Coy, at Peterborough, formerly B Coy
  • Cassino Coy, at Cobourg, formerly A Coy
  • Somme Coy (Admin and Log, divided among all 3 locations)
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (Regimental site)
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
History of the Regiment (Regimental site)
Cadets:
Affiliated Cadet Corps (Regimental site)
385 RCACC, Madoc
1129 RCACC, Haliburton
2672 RCACC, Peterborough
2777 RCACC, Campbellford
2817 RCACC, Lindsay
2817A RCACC, Cobourg
2818 RCACC, Belleville
Deployment and Service:
 
Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
       
     
       
       
       
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external links have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
[no external links have been found]
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
Regimental Museum, Belleville, Ont. (Regimental site)
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

[combined battle honours of 16th Prince Edward Regiment, and 49th Regiment (Hastings Rifles), plus:]

The Second World War: Landing in Sicily, Grammichelle, Valguarnera, Assoro, Agira, Adrano, Regalbutto, Sicily 1943, Landing at Reggio, Motta Montecorvino, Campobasso, Torella, The Moro, San Leonardo, The Gully, Ortona, Cassino II, Gustav Line, Liri Valley, Hitler Line, Gothic Line, Lamone Crossing, Misano Ridge, Rimini Line, San Fortunato, Bulgaria Village, Naviglio Canal, Fosso Vecchio, Italy 1943-45, Apeldoorn, North-West Europe 1945
  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
The Colours (Regimental site)
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges: Between two sprays of maple leaves, a Maltese Cross; below the Cross and joining the base of the sprays, a beaver facing dexter, on a log. Between the points of the sprays and surmounting the upper arm of the Cross, the Crown. Upon the Cross an annulus inscribed HASTINGS AND PRINCE EDWARDS REGIMENT: within the annulus a stag's head, facing dexter, upon a wreath. Below the annulus a scroll bearing the motto PARATUS.
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
  Colonel-in-Chief
2002.10 HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, KCVO
  Honorary Colonels
  Traditions
 
Motto: Paratus
Nicknames: the Hasty Pees, Plough Jockeys
Anniversaries:
Mascot: "Chief Petawawa-Much" (life-sized wooden Indian)
Marches: I'm ninety-five
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances Introduction to Alliances
The Royal Sussex Regiment 1934-1966
The Queen's Regiment 1966-1992
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) 1992-present
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
The Regiment. Vol. 1, no. 1 (summer 1993). Belleville, Ont. : The Regimental Senate, 1993. Annual. ISSN: 1199-0287
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment journal. Vol. 1, no. 2 (winter 1993/1994)- . Belleville, Ont. : The Regimental Senate, 1993- Frequency: Semiannual Description: ;
The regiment journal : plough jockey. Summer 1994 (no. 1) ; Vol. 1, issue 4 (winter/spring 1995)- . Belleville, Ont. : Regiment Journal, 1995. ISSN: 1204-4660
Full Histories:
Mowat, Farley. The regiment. [1st ed.] Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1955.
Mowat, Farley. The regiment. [2nd ed.] Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1973. ISBN: 0771065752
Mowat, Farley. The regiment. [new ed.] Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1989. ISBN: 0771066945
Smith, Kenneth B. "Duffy's Regiment". [Toronto?] : K.B. Smith, T.H. Best Print. Co., 1983.
Smith, Kenneth B. Duffy's regiment : a history of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1987. ISBN: 1550020226
 
Short Histories:
Willcocks, K. D. H. (Kenneth D. H.). The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, Canada : a short history. Belleville, Ont. : [s.n.], 1967.
 
Special Topics:
Decorations and awards received during World War II, 1939-1945 by the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. Belleville, Ont. : Published under the authority of the Regimental Senate, 1986.
Capon, Alan Roy. Mascots of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. Picton, Ont. : Picton Gazette Pub. Co., 1977. ISBN: 0920028101