The Royal Canadian Regiment
Badge of the regiment
Active	21 December 1883 – present
Country	Canada
Branch	Canadian Army
Type	Line Infantry
Role	Mechanized infantry (two battalions) light role/paratroop (one battalion) light role/primary reserve (one battalion)
Size	Four battalions
Part of	Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Garrison/HQ	RHQ – Petawawa 1st Battalion – Petawawa 2nd Battalion – Gagetown 3rd Battalion – Petawawa 4th Battalion – London
Nickname(s)	formally Royal Canadians, informally Junior Royals
Motto(s)	Pro patria (Latin for 'for country')
March	Quick – "The Royal Canadian Regiment" (aka "St. Catharines") Slow – "Pro Patria"
Anniversaries	Regimental birthday – 21 December Paardeberg Day – 27 February Pachino Day – 10 July Mons Day – 10 November Kowang-san Day – 23 October[1]
Engagements	Fenian Raids North-West Rebellion Second Boer War First World War Second World War Korean War War in Afghanistan
Decorations	Commander-in-Chief Unit Commendation – 1st Battalion: Afghanistan, 2006.
Battle honours	See #Battle honours
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	Vacant
Colonel of the Regiment	MGen (ret’d) Denis W. Thompson
Patrons	Judith Irving, Mike Holmes
Notable commanders	William Dillon Otter
Insignia
Tartan	Maple Leaf (2nd Bn pipes and drums)
Abbreviation	RCR

The Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR) is an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. The regiment consists of four battalions, three in the Regular Force and one in the primary reserve. The RCR is ranked first in the order of precedence amongst Canadian Army infantry regiments, but in a quirk of the rules of seniority, its 4th battalion is ninth.

The RCR was originally authorized as the Infantry School Corps on 21 December 1883, and established its first three company stations at Fredericton, New Brunswick; St Jean, Quebec; and Toronto, Ontario. In 1887 a fourth company was authorized and the next year was established at London, Ontario. Now consisting of three Regular Force battalions and one Reserve Force battalion, the regiment's four battalions are now stationed in Ontario and New Brunswick. With many of its soldiers drawn from Ontario and the Atlantic Provinces in recent decades, the regiment maintains a general connection as the "local" infantry regiment for anglophone eastern Canada.

The regiment is a "British-style" infantry regiment that is the spiritual home and repository of customs and traditions for a number of battalions that do not necessarily serve together operationally. The RCR maintains its Regimental Headquarters (RHQ) in Petawawa, Ontario, which has no operational command role but handles regimental affairs outside the responsibility of the individual battalions. The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum is located within historic Wolseley Hall in London, Ontario. Wolseley Barracks in London has been continuously occupied by some element of the regiment since construction of Wolseley Hall was completed in 1888. At various times Wolseley Barracks has been the home of the Regimental Headquarters, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, and remains the home of the 4th Battalion today.

Battalions

NATO Map Symbols
1 RCR		2 CMBG
2 RCR		2 CMBG
3 RCR		2 CMBG
4 RCR		31 CBG

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  Regimental cypher.
• 
  A major of the 3rd Battalion on parade in Kyiv, August 2018.

Lineage

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  The regimental colour of 1st Battalion.
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  The camp flag.

Royal Canadian Regiment

• Originated 21 December 1883 as the Infantry School Corps
• Redesignated 14 May 1892 as the Canadian Regiment of Infantry
• Redesignated 24 May 1893 as the Royal Regiment of Canadian Infantry
• Redesignated 1 April 1899 as the Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry
• Redesignated 1 November 1901 as The Royal Canadian Regiment
• Amalgamated 25 April 1958 with The London and Oxford Fusiliers (3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment)' retaining its designation.
• The 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (London and Oxford Fusiliers) redesignated in 1970 as the 4th Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (London and Oxford Fusiliers)
• 4th Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (London and Oxford Fusiliers) designated as the 4th Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment on 22 May 1990.^[3]

London and Oxford Fusiliers (3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment)

• Originated 27 April 1866 in London, Ontario as the 7th Battalion Infantry, "Prince Arthur's Own"
• Redesignated 1 May 1866 as the 7th Battalion Infantry
• Redesignated 15 February 1867 as the 7th Battalion "London Light Infantry"
• Redesignated 16 January 1880 as the 7th Battalion "Fusiliers"
• Redesignated 8 May 1900 as the 7th Regiment "Fusiliers"
• Redesignated 29 March 1920 The Western Ontario Regiment
• Redesignated 1 August 1924 as The Canadian Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
• Amalgamated 15 December 1936 with the Headquarters and A Company of the 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, CMGC and redesignated as The Canadian Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (Machine Gun)
• Redesignated 29 January 1942 as the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, The Canadian Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
• Redesignated 24 March 1942 as the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, The Canadian Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (Machine Gun)
• Redesignated 1 April 1946 as The Canadian Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (Machine Gun)
• Amalgamated 1 October 1954 with The Oxford Rifles and redesignated as the London and Oxford Fusiliers (3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment)
• Amalgamated 25 April 1958 with The Royal Canadian Regiment and redesignated as the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (London and Oxford Fusiliers).^[3]

Oxford Rifles

• Originated 14 August 1863 in Woodstock, Ontario as the Twenty-second Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles, Canada or The Oxford Rifles
• Redesignated 13 April 1866 as the 22nd Battalion The Oxford Rifles
Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Royal_Canadian_Regiment
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