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1st Canadian Armoured Northwest Europe, 1944 – 1945 |
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Unit Serial and Arm of Service Flash, 1944 – 1945 |
Formation Sign, 79th Armoured Division |
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Le Havre, Boulogne 1944, The Lower Maas, The Roer, The Rhineland, The Reichswald, Cleve, Moyland, Goch-Calcar Road, The Hochwald, Xanten, The Rhine, Groningen, North West Europe 1944-45. |
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On 28 August 1944, 1st Armoured Carrier Squadron was formed as a result of the use of Defrocked Priests during Operations Totalize and Tractable in August 1944 by 2nd Canadian Corps in the Normandy campaign. The squadron was attached to 25th Canadian Armoured Delivery Regiment (The Elgin Regiment) for administrative purposes. On 24 October 1944, 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment was formed from elements of 1st Armoured Carrier Squadron. That squadron continued to exist and was joined by a second one, thus giving the Regiment two squadrons in total. On 21 December 1944 the Regiment was assigned to 31st Armoured Brigade of British 79th Armoured Division which would act as the parent formation for both it and British 49th Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment which was organized along similar lines as the Canadian unit. The 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment was an ad hoc unit formed in answer to tactical requirements encountered by 1st Canadian Army in the Normandy campaign. |
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