ROYAL CANADIAN ARMOURED CORPS

The 'Royal Canadian Armoured Corps' (RCAC) is the armoured branch of service of the Canadian Forces Land Force Command (Canadian Army), including regular force and militia regiments. The corps was formed in 1940 as the 'Canadian Armoured Corps' with Major-General (then Colonel) F.F. Worthington as its first Colonel-Commandant, but claimed lineage from the 'Canadian Tank Corps' of the First World War. The ''Royal'' designation was added in 1945. Canadian armoured regiments split their heritage between the cavalry, from whom many armoured regiments were created, and the infantry beginning in 1936 with the creation of Infantry (Tank) regiments and continuing from 1940 when many infantry regiments mobilized armoured units for the Second World War and eventually transferred from the (Royal) Canadian Infantry Corps into the RCAC.

Contents

Regular Force regiments

Reserve Force regiments

Equipment

Order of precedence

See also

Regular Force regiments

# Royal Canadian Dragoons
# Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
# 12^e Régiment blindé du Canada

Reserve Force regiments

#The Governor General's Horse Guards
#8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)
#The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)
#The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC)
#Sherbrooke Hussars
#12^e Régiment blindé du Canada (Milice)
#1st Hussars
#The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)
#The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)
#The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) (RCAC)
#The South Alberta Light Horse
#The Saskatchewan Dragoons
#The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)
#The British Columbia Dragoons
#The Fort Garry Horse
#Le Régiment de Hull (RCAC)
#The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)
Regiments that have the letters "RCAC" as part of their name are those that have no cavalry heritage: they are either former infantry regiments that converted to armour, or created directly as an armoured unit. The 12^e Régiment blindé du Canada is converted from infantry, but does not have the RCAC suffix because the word ''blindé'' in its title is sufficient to indicate its armoured role.

Equipment

The main vehicles operated by the RCAC include:

★ Leopard 2 main battle tank, purchase announced in 2007

★ Leopard C2 main battle tank

★ Coyote Reconnaissance Vehicle; this is in service with the Regular Force regiments

★ G-Wagon reconnaissance vehicle; this is used by the Militia regiments

Order of precedence

'RCHA on parade with guns: (See note below)'
'RCHA on dismounted parades: (See note below)'
''Note:'' The honour of "The Right of the Line" (precedence over other units), on an army parade, is held by the units of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery when on parade with their guns. On dismounted parades, RCHA units take precedence over all other land force units except formed bodies of Officer Cadets of the Royal Military College representing their college. RCA units parade to the left of units of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.

See also

★ Royal Armoured Corps

★ Royal Australian Armoured Corps

★ Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps