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Infantry Regiments 1900-1919
Dawson Rifles
GGFG
Kootenay Rifles
PPCLI
Royal Canadian Regiment

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CEF Battalions 1914-1920

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Infantry Regiments 1920-2000
1st British Columbia Regiment
1st BC Regt (D. of Conn.'s Own)
Algonquin Regiment
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Argyll Light Infantry
Black Watch (RHR) of Canada
BC Regt (D. of Conn's Own Rifles)
Calgary Highlanders
Calgary Regiment
Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa
Canadian Airborne Regiment
Canadian Scottish Regiment
Canadian Fusiliers (C of L Regt)
Canadian Guards
Canadian Grenadier Guards
Cape Breton Highlanders
Carleton and York Regiment
Durham Regiment
Elgin Regiment
Essex Scottish
Essex & Kent Scottish
Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
Fusiliers Mont Royal
Fusiliers du St. Laurent
48th Highlanders of Canada
Gov Gen Foot Guards
Grey & Simcoe Foresters
Halifax Rifles
Hastings and Prince Edward Regt
Highland Fusiliers of Canada
Highland Light Infantry of Canada
Irish Fusiliers
Irish Fusiliers of Can (Vancouver R.)
Irish Regiment
Irish Regiment of Canada
Kent Regiment
King's Own Rifles of Canada
Lake Superior Regiment
Lincoln and Welland Regiment
Loyal Edmonton Regiment
Lorne Scots
Midland Regiment
Mississauga Regiment
New Brunswick Rangers
New Brunswick Scottish
North Nova Scotia Highlanders
North Shore (New Brunswick) Regt
North Waterloo Regiment
Oxford Rifles
Perth Regiment
Peterborough Rangers
Pictou Highlanders
PPCLI
Prince Albert and Battleford Voltrs
Princess Louise Fusiliers (MG)
Prince Rupert Regiment
Princess of Wales' Own Regiment
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
Queen's Rangers (1st Am. Regt.)
Queen's York Rangers (1st Am. R.)
Régiment de la Chaudière
Régiment de Chateauguay
Régiment de Levis
Régiment de Maisonneuve
Régiment de Montmagmy
Régiment de Saguenay
Régiment de St. Hyacinthe
Régiment de Québec
Regina Rifle Regiment
Rocky Mountain Rangers
Royal 22e Regt
Royal Canadian Regiment
Royal Highlanders of Canada
Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada
Royal Regiment of Canada
Royal Regina Rifles
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
Royal Montreal Regiment
Royal New Brunswick Regiment
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Royal Rifles of Canada
Royal Scots of Canada
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Saskatoon Light Infantry
Scots Fusiliers of Canada
S, D and G Highlanders
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
South Alberta Regiment
South New Brunswick Regiment
South Saskatchewan Regiment
Toronto Regiment
Toronto Scottish Regiment
Vancouver Regiment
Victoria Rifles of Canada
Voltigeurs de Quebec
Waterloo Regiment
Westminster Regiment
West Nova Scotia Regiment
West Toronto Regiment
Winnipeg Grenadiers
Winnipeg Light Infantry
York Rangers
Yukon Regiment

The Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

The Princess Louise Dragoon Guards was a regiment of cavalry formed in the Canadian Army as part of the Militia.

Lineage

23 May 1872: Ottawa Troop of Cavalry authoarized
15 Nov 1872: Redesignated Dragoon Guards
3 Jan 1879: Redesignated The Princess Louise' Dragoon Guards
1 Feb 1903: Redesignated 5th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
15 Mar 1920: Redesignated The Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
15 Dec 1936, 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards created from amalgamation of 4th Hussars and Princess Louise Dragoon Guards¹

The Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

Badge of 5th PLDG shown

Headquarters: Ottawa, ON
Predecessor: none
Perpetuates: 8th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles, CEF
Created: 23 May 1872
Amalgamated: with 4th Hussars of Canada on 15 December 1936 to create the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

History

The Ottawa Troop of Cavalry was authorized in May 1872 and redesignated Dragoon Guards in 1878. The unit became a regiment was an additional squadron on 1 January 1903 and a regimental headquarters was authorized on 1 February 1903, being redesignated at that time 5th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. The regiment, known as Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, had contributed volunteers to the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment, the 1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles and the South African Constabulary during the South African War of 1899-1902. The 5th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards went on to contribute volunteers to the 8th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles in the First World War.

The regiment was amalgamated with the 4th Hussars of Canada in 1936.

Insignia

Regiments and Corps describes the regimental badge of the 4th PLDG, which was similar, as

Two "Ls" for Lorne and Louise intertwined, one reversed, banded in the centre with the coronet of a Marquis; below a scroll inscribed "PRINCESS LOUISE DRAGOON GUARDS"; beneath the centre of the crossed "Ls" and above the centre of the scroll the Roman numeral ("V")... the whole surmounted by the coronet of a Princess.²

References

The Regiments and Corps of the Canadian Army (Queen's Printer, Ottawa, ON, 1964) , pp.54-56. See also Stewart, C.H. The Concise Lineages of the Canadian Army 1855 to Date (self-published, Toronto, ON) p.13 who gives a designation of "The IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards"
Regiments and Corps, Ibid.
Regiments and Corps, Ibid.