Dec 21 - Happy Birthday, The RCD & The RCR
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Happy birthday to both the RCD and the RCR! 128 years old today. For those Dragoons in the Gagetown area, there will be a gathering for lunch and beverages at Minglers at 1230 hrs!
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Happy Birthday to my fellow Dragoons. Audax et Celer! :cheers:
And also to the juniors of the day, Pro Patria to The RCR
And also to the juniors of the day, Pro Patria to The RCR
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Happy Birthday to all Royal Canadians!
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Happy 129th Birthday to Dragoons and Royals.
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Happy 131st!
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Gunner said:It's always quaint to see the young'uns celebrating their rather short history but I guess you have to start somewhere...
http://www.artillery.net/English/history.htm
Happy Birthday none the less to all great Canadians (past, present and future) who have served two proud (albeit junior) Regiments.
We could always discuss why the RCN feels they are the senior service in Canada even though Naval Service of Canada didn;t form until 1910...55 years after the Militia Act created the Active Militia(aka Army).
But Happy Birthday to the RCD and RCR.
Arte et Marte and Pro Patricia
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That link keeps missing it's target.
How fitting.
On the other hand, we could discuss how The RCR is actually 151 years old, but that confuses them.
http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-3/par2/RCR-eng.asp
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Michael O'Leary said:
Well, if The RCR was happy to take the Battle Honours of the Militia regiments that were incorporated into it, then it has to take the lineage dates as well. Having said that, I don't think that this will lead to the demise of the Dec 21st mess celebrations.
Happy Birthday to both Regiments.
Cheers,
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Dan M said:
The Regiment has accepted all aspects of the amalgamation and perpetuation, as confirmed by the Regimental Senate in 1958. What it failed to do in the following 50 years was teach members of the Regiment what that meant. For many years any mention of the amalgamated regiments was brushed aside as "only affecting the Reserve battalion." The amalgamated regiments and perpetuated units weren't even mentioned in the Regimental Catechism until 2006, when I put them there. Many have been and are ignorant of the meaning of 14 Aug 1863, because they were never taught it. In any case, The RCR continues to celebrate 21 Dec 1883 by regimental tradition.
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Dan M said:
If you are actually trying for some one up manship here, then the game can go on for a long time. The RCD accept the 21st of December 1883 as the date Gazetted; but have lineages that predate that, back to the days of Montcalm and the French-Canadian militia cavalry in Quebec City.
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George Wallace said:
They may promote an earlier heritage. But is is not a lineage connection.
RCD lineage document - http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-3/par1/arm-bli/RCD-eng.asp
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RCR lineage document - http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-3/par2/RCR-eng.asp
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Would't be the first time that DHH was not accurate. >
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