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39: 153:. Canadian Department of Militia and Defence equipped and trained the unit, while the British paid its costs. The majority of the officers and at least a quarter of the men had previously served in South Africa, including its commander Lieutenant-Colonel T.D.B. Evans. On 31 March the unit fought as part of an outnumbered British force at the Battle of 165:
The 2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles was mobilized on 15 March 1915, at Willows Camp, Victoria. Most of their recruits would come from the local militia cavalry units: the 30th British Columbia Horse and the Victoria Squadron of Horse.
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In November 1901, the British government requested from the Canadian government a four-squadron regiment of mounted rifles for the
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Canadian Forces Publication A-DH-267-003 Insignia and Lineages of the Canadian Forces. Volume 3: Combat Arms Regiments.
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The regiment embarked for Great Britain on 12 June 1915. It disembarked in France on 22 September 1915 as part of the
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Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 by Col. G.W.L. Nicholson, CD, Queen's Printer, Ottawa, Ontario, 1962
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The distinguishing battle patch of the 2nd Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, CEF
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and was mobilized in Victoria. An earlier incarnation was raised for
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Canada & The South African War, 1899-1902, Canadian War Museum
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Lieutenant-Colonel G.C. Johnston, 27 November 1916–demobilization
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List of infantry battalions in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
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List of mounted regiments in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
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Lieutenant-Colonel J.C. Bott, 12 June 1915 – 27 November 1916
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The 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion is perpetuated by
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Over the Top! The Canadian Infantry in the First World War.
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1920
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Index

2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles

Canadian Expeditionary Force
8th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Canadian Mounted Rifles
battalion
Victoria
Vernon, British Columbia
Boer War
Boer War
Harts River
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Brigade
3rd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
3rd Canadian Division
Mount Sorrel
Somme, 1916
Flers-Courcelette
Ancre Heights
1917
'18
Vimy, 1917
Hill 70
Ypres, 1917
Passchendaele
Amiens
Scarpe, 1918
Hindenburg Line
Canal du Nord
Cambrai, 1918
Pursuit to Mons

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