The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)

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The Ontario Regiment (RCAC) is a reserve reconnaissance armoured regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces. This unit is based in downtown Oshawa, Ontario.

[edit] Battle honours

Those battle honours approved for emblazonment are bolded.

[edit] World War I

• Somme, 1916; Arras, 1917; Vimy, 1917; Hill 70; Ypres, 1917; Passchendaele; Amiens; Arras, 1918; Scarpe, 1918; Drocourt-Queant Line; Hindenburg Line, Battles of the; Canal du Nord; Cambrai, 1918; Valenciennes; France and Flanders, 1916-18

[edit] World War II

• Pursuit to Messina; Sicily, 1943; Colle d’Anchise; The Gully; Casa Berardi; Ortona; Point 59; Cassino II; Gustav Line; St Angelo in Teodice; Liri Valley; Aquino; Trasimene Line; Sanfatucchio; Arezzo; Advance to Florence; Italy, 1943-45; Arnhem, 1945; North-West Europe, 1945

[edit] Direct lineage

• 116th and 182nd Battalions, C.E.F.
• The Ontario Regiment (11th Armoured Regiment)
• The Ontario Regiment

[edit] Alliances

• Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom - The Royal Welsh

[edit] Motto

Fidelis et Paratus (Faithful and Prepared)

[edit] Marches

• "John Peel" (Dismounted)
• "My Boy Willie" (Mounted)

[edit] Order of precedence