4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards - Lineage

Lineage

Several independent troops of cavalry in the Province of Canada's volunteer militia were formed in the Kingston area starting in 1855. Four of these troops (in Kingston, Napanee, Loughborough and Picton) were united under a regimental headquarters in 1875, becoming the 4th Provisional Regiment of Cavalry. This regiment adopted hussar uniforms (with buff facings) and hussar customs in 1893.

Meanwhile in Ottawa, the city's independent cavalry troop (formed in 1872) came under the patronage of the Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, during her time there as vice-regal consort (1878–80), and the troop was expanded to an independent squadron named the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. During the Second Boer War, volunteers from the squadron fought with the Imperial forces in South Africa. The squadron was again expanded into a regiment in 1903 as the 5th "Princess Louise Dragoon Guards".

The 4th Hussars and the 5th PLDG were not mobilized in the First World War, but they both contributed volunteers to and aided in the recruiting of the 8th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles. The 8th CMR did not enter combat as a unit, its personnel being absorbed by the reserves in England and the 4th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, in France, but enough of its former members fought at the Battle of Mount Sorrel that the regiment qualified for a battle honour, which the PLDG perpetuates.

In the 1936 reorganization of the Militia, the PLDG and the 4th Hussars were amalgamated as the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards.

1855 Independent troops of cav.
1872 Ottawa Troop of Cav.
1875 4th Provisional Regt of Cav.
1879 Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
1886 4th Regt of Cav.
1893 4th Hussars
1903 5th
1915 8th Regt, Canadian Mounted Rifles,
1917 Disbanded
1920 The Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
1926 Perpetuates 8th Regt
1932 4th Hussars of Canada
1936 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
1941 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, 2nd Regt, 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
1941 4th Recce Bn 4th Recce Bn,
1942 4th Recce Regt 4th Recce Regt
1944 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards,
1945 4th Recce Regt
1945 4th Recce Regt 4th Recce Regt
1945 Disbanded
1947 4th Armd Car Regt
1949 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
1958 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
1965 Supplementary Order of Battle
2012
Abbreviations used in the chart
Abbreviation Phrase
Armd Armoured
Bn Battalion
CAC Canadian Armoured Corps
CASF Canadian Active Service Force
Cav. Cavalry
CEF Canadian Expeditionary Force
CIC Canadian Infantry Corps
RCAC Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
Recce Reconnaissance
Regt Regiment

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