Canadian Mounted Rifles

Canadian Mounted Rifles was part of the designation of several mounted infantry units in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  • Units of the Permanent Active Militia:
    • The Canadian Mounted Rifle Corps, formed in 1885, now part of The Royal Canadian Dragoons
    • The Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles, formed in 1901, now named Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
  • Units formed for the Second Boer War:
    • 1st Battalion, the Canadian Mounted Rifles, renamed the Royal Canadian Dragoons (Special Service Force) in 1900
    • 2nd Battalion, the Canadian Mounted Rifles, renamed the Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1900, recruited and perpetuated by the North-West Mounted Police
    • 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Battalion, the Canadian Mounted Rifles – went to South Africa but never saw action
  • Independent squadrons of the Non-Permanent Active Militia:
    • B, C, D, E and F Squadrons, Canadian Mounted Rifles, regimented into the 12th "Manitoba Dragoons" in 1903
    • J and K Squadrons, Canadian Mounted Rifles, regimented into the 9th Toronto Light Horse in 1903
    • A, B, C and E Squadrons, Canadian Mounted Rifles, regimented into the 19th The Alberta Mounted Rifles in 1908
    • D Squadron, Canadian Mounted Rifles, regimented into the 21st Alberta Hussars in 1908.
    • G and F Squadrons, Canadian Mounted Rifles, regimented into the Saskatchewan Light Horse in 1908
    • B and C Squadrons, Canadian Mounted Rifles, regimented into the British Columbia Horse in 1911
  • Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force of the First World War:
    • 1st Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles (later 1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles)
    • 2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles (later 2nd Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles)
    • 3rd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
    • 4th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles (later 4th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles)
    • 5th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles (later 5th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles)
    • 6th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
    • 7th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
    • 8th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
    • 9th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
    • 10th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
    • 11th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
    • 12th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
    • 13th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles

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    “But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
    Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
    Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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    —Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)