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Royal Canadian Dragoon, Boer War Sculpture by Renowned sculptor Hamilton MacCarthy, Halifax Public Gardens ( 1903 ) The Royal Canadian Dragoons is the most senior cavalry regiment in Canada, having been formed on December 21, 1883, 3: 03 pm, as the Cavalry School Corps, as a result of the Militia Act of 1883, which also created the Infantry School Corps ( now The Royal Canadian Regiment ).
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Royal and Canadian
* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
* 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
* John Morgan-Canadian comedian best known for his roles on Royal Canadian Air Farce.
* Royal Canadian Air Force
The first international convention for coin collectors was held 15 – 18 August 1962, in Detroit, Michigan, and was sponsored by the American Numismatic Association and the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association.
They may wish to take advantage of a spike in demand for a particular coin ( for example, during the annual release of Canadian numismatic collectibles from the Royal Canadian Mint ).
Marconi's station at Marconi Towers, on the outskirts of Glace Bay, became the chief communication center for the Royal Canadian Navy in World War I through to the early years of World War II.
Later this same year, the Royal Canadian Air Force placed an additional order for 180 T-50s.
It is still used in this form by the British Territorial Army, and the Royal Canadian Armour Corps of the Canadian Army.
In the Canadian Army, a number of regular and reserve units have cavalry roots, including The Royal Canadian Hussars ( Montreal ), the Governor General's Horse Guards, Lord Strathcona's Horse, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and the South Alberta Light Horse.
** Royal Canadian Mounted Police — accorded the status of a regiment of Dragoons in 1921 and remained so until 1937.
; Royal prerogative: Reserve powers of the Canadian Crown, being remnants of the powers once held by the British Crown, reduced over time by the parliamentary system.
Also in 2006, Cronenberg was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars.
Memorial Stained Glass window at Royal Military College of Canada of 2770 LCol KL Jefferson, a member of the 12th Manitoba Dragoons, an armoured regiment of the Canadian Army and Canadian Forces
There are three dragoon regiments in the Canadian Forces: the Royal Canadian Dragoons and two reserve regiments, the British Columbia Dragoons and the Saskatchewan Dragoons.
The Royal Canadian Dragoons is the senior Armoured regiment in the Canadian Forces.
Royal and Dragoon
Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.
The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.
The island town hosts a range of attractions including the Castle Coole Estate and Enniskillen Castle, which is home to the museum of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.
The Royal Danish Army includes amongst its historic regiments the Jutish Dragoon Regiment, which was raised in 1670.
* Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
* Royal Dragoon Guards
All companies are now associated with The Royal Welsh except for Prestatyn Platoon which is cap-badged ' REME ', Llandudno Platoon and Bangor Platoon which are cap-badged ' Royal Artillery ', Mold and Porthmadog Platoons which are cap-badges ' Queens Dragoon Guards ( QDG )', and Bradley and Benllech platoons which are cap-badged ' Welsh Guards '.
** The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ( Carabiniers and Greys )-Armoured
** The Royal Dragoon Guards-Armoured
* Catterick-The Royal Dragoon Guards ( Armoured ); Queen's Royal Lancers ( Formation Reconnaissance )
* Fallingbostel-The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ( Carabiniers and Greys ) ( Armoured )
* The Heavy Cavalry and Cambrai Band-this band represents the regiments of The Royal Dragoon Guards, Queens Dragoon Guards, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Royal Tank Regiments, and was formed in 2006 by the amalgamation of the Band of the Dragoon Guards and the Royal Tank Regiment Cambrai Band.
Royal and Boer
During the Second Boer War, a Boer force attempting to sneak up on the Royal Canadian Dragoons was defeated after their movements startled the nearby springbok, thus alerting the Canadian sentries, which is why the Dragoons have the springbok as their cap badge and as their mascot.
During the Boer War, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, later renamed Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, was founded under Royal Warrant.
In the Boer War and throughout the First World War, the army officially called the regiment " The Royal Welsh Fusiliers " but the archaic " Welch " was officially restored to the regiment's title in 1920 under Army Order No. 56.
Convicts housed in hulks were used to build the Royal Naval Dockyard there, and during the Second Boer War, Boer prisoners-of-war were sent to the archipelago and imprisoned on one of the smaller islands.
He enlisted in the 3rd ( militia ) regiment of the Royal Irish Rifles on 11 January 1900 to serve in the Second Boer War.
After graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Wavell was commissioned on 8 May 1901 into the Black Watch and fought in the Second Boer War.
* Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake received his first VC in 1902 during the Boer War while serving as a surgeon captain in the South African Constabulary attached to the 5th Field Ambulance, and the Bar whilst serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps near Zonnebeke, Belgium in 1914.
In the final peace treaty, the Pretoria Convention, negotiated by a three-man Royal Commission, the British agreed to complete Boer self-government in the Transvaal under British suzerainty, the Boers accepting the Queen's nominal rule and British control over external relations, African affairs and native districts.
Otter commanded the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry, at the time of the Second Boer War.
When an army corps of three divisions was mobilised and despatched to South Africa at the outbreak of the Boer War, Lt-Gen Lord Methuen was given command of 1st Division of two infantry brigades, 1st ( Guards ) under Maj-Gen Sir Henry Colville and 2nd under Maj-Gen Henry Hildyard, with 4th Brigade Division ( three batteries ) of the Royal Field Artillery ( RFA ) under Col C. J.
The Fusiliers ' memorial arch to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers who fought in the Boer War, erected at 1907 in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, was called " Traitors ' Gate " by the Redmondites and later Irish Republicans, from whose point of view Irish soldiers going off to fight the British Empire's wars were traitors to Ireland.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Otter survived the battle and remained a prominent figure in the military, commanding The Royal Canadian Regiment in the Boer War, and acting as Director of Internment Camps in World War I.
The Royal Guards Reserve Regiment was in existence during the Second Boer War from 1900 to 1901.
He served with the Royal Field Artillery during the Second Boer War and took part in the Battle of Magersfontein and the Battle of Paardeberg.
Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst before being commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers in 1900, he fought in the Boer War and also served in Tibet.
He was born in Belfast, the fourth son of Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, being commissioned into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, with which regiment he served in the Second Boer War.
* Maj Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn, Victoria Cross ( Boer War, with Royal Canadian Dragoons )
He was a member of London County Council from 1898 to 1904, and also served in the Second Boer War with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry ( having formerly been commissioned into the volunteer battalion of the Royal Scots ) as aide-de-camp to Lord Methuen, winning the DSO in 1900.
* the Fusiliers ' Arch ( first termed " Traitors Gate " by Redmondites ) at the Grafton Street corner which commemorates the Royal Dublin Fusiliers who died in the Second Boer War.
This commemorates members of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers killed in the Second Boer War.
The regiment served in the Boer Wars, and the First World War after which the Hampshire Yeomanry was re roled as an Artillery Regiment and they amalgamated with the Hampshire Royal Horse Artillery to become the 95th ( Hampshire Yeomanry ) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery.
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