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The Toronto Scottish
Regiment
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The
Toronto Scottish Regiment was an infantry regiment of the
Canadian Army during the 20th Century that continued its
service into the 21st.
Lineage
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The
Mississauga Regiment was authorized on 1 May 1920
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The
regiment was redesignated The Toronto Scottish
Regiment on 1 September 1921
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The Toronto Scottish Regiment was amalgamated with
"B" and "C" Companies of the 1st Battalion, Canadian
Machine Gun Corps on 15 December 1936 and
designated The
Toronto Scottish Regiment (M.G.)
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Redesignated The Toronto Scottish Regiment on
19 June 1947
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Redesignated The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen
Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Own) on 19 October 2000
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The
Toronto Scottish Regiment |
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Headquarters:
Toronto, ON
Predecessors: none
Perpetuates: 75th and 84th Battalions, CEF
Raised: 1 May 1920
Status on 31 December 1999: Active Militia
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First World War
The 75th and 84th Battalions, Canadian Expeditionary Force, were
recruited in the Toronto area, the former serving with the 11th
Infantry Brigade of the 4th Canadian Division. The medical officer
of the 75th Battalion, Captain B.S. Hutcheson, MC, was awarded the
Victoria Cross for actions on 2 September 1918. The 84th Battalion
provided reinforcements for the Canadian Corps.
Second World War
The regiment mobilized "The Toronto Scottish Regiment (M.G.), CASF"
on 1 September 1939, and the battalion embarked for the United
Kingdom as a machine gun battalion of the 1st Canadian Division in
December 1939. In 1940, tactical requirements for machine gun units
changed, from one per brigade to one per division, the the unit was
assigned as the divisional machine gun battalion of the 2nd Canadian
Infantry Division. A detachment of the battalion took part in the
Dieppe Raid on 19 August 1942. The unit was redesignated "2nd
Canadian Infantry Division Support Battalion (The Toronto Scottish
Regiment)" on 1 May 1943, then designated "The Toronto Scottish
Regiment (M.G.)" on 1 February 1944. The unit landed with the
division in Normandy on 6 July 1944, a month after D-Day, and served
throughout the Northwest Europe campaign in its role as a machine
gun battalion. The 1st Battalion was disbanded on 31 December 1945.
A 2nd Battalion served in the Reserve Army.
Battle Honours
The Regiment was awarded Battle Honours
for service in the two World Wars (bold type indicates honours selected for
emblazonment):
Somme, 1916
Ancre, 1916
Vimy, 1917
Ypres, 1917
Amiens
Drocourt-Quéant
Canal du Nord
Sambre
Dieppe
St. André-sur-Orne
Falaise
Clair Tizon
Antwerp-Turnhout Canal
Woensdrecht
The Rhineland
Goch-Calcar Road
Xanten
Groningen |
Ancre Heights
Arras, 1917, '18
Hill 70
Passchendaele
Scarpe, 1918
Hindenburg Line
Valenciennes
France and Flanders, 1916-18
Bourguébus Ridge
Verrières Ridge-Tilly-la-Campagne
Falaise Road
Dunkirk, 1944
The Scheldt
South Beveland
The Reichswald
The Hochwald
Twente Canal
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Northwest Europe, 1942, 1944-45 |
Traditions
- Regimental Alliances
- Official Marches
Insignia
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Cap Badge
The cap badge is described in "Regiments and Corps of the Canadian
Army" as:
Upon a wreath of thistles, the Cross
of Saint Andrew, charged in the centre with a maple leaf, both
interlacing an annulus inscribed with the motto "CARRY ON";
upon a second annulus placed on the centre of the maple leaf and
inscribed "BELGIUM FRANCE 1916-1919", a unicorn's head couped
and gorged with an antique crown chained, and resting on an
heraldic wreath; on the upper and lower bends of the wreath and
resting on the arms of the Cross two scrolls, the upper
inscribed "TORONTO" and the lower "SCOTTISH".1
Further notes on the design of
the badge have been published by the Directorate of History
and Heritage. They note that:
The maple leaf represents service
to Canada. The thistles (the national flower of Scotland) and
the cross of St. Andrew (the patron saint of Scotland) are
common devices among badges of highland infantry, and the
overall shape of the badge is similar to The London Scottish,
the regiment's first allied regiment. The unicorn is taken from
the badges of the 75th "Overseas" Battalion and The Mississauga
Horse in recognition of the regiment's historical connection
with these units.2
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Notes
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The Regiments and Corps of the Canadian
Army, Queen's Printer, Ottawa,
1964, p.247
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A-DH-267-000/AF-003 accessed online at
http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-3/par2/doc/tsr.pdf
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