The RCR in the Great War
War Diary
Battle Honours
Honours and Awards
Roll of Honour
Prisoners of War
Cemetery List
Cemetery Map
Courts Martial
Officers
NCOs and Soldiers
An Officer's Diary (1914-1918)
Recollections of a Nonagenerian (R. England) (1916-1919)
On to Bermuda (1914-15)
Overseas with The Royals (1915)
Amiens (1918)
Cambrai (1918)
Monchy-le-Preux (1918)
Badges - Signs of the Times
The 7th Trench Mortar Battery
A Regimental Goat
Regiment and Family, Bermuda 1914-15
The Royal Canadian Regiment and
The First World War - 1914-1919
Cemetery Photo Statistics
179 Cemeteries
128 Completed
6 Partially complete
51 Remaining
Grave Photo Statistics
817 Known Graves/Memorials
475 Photographed
164 Graves remaining
178 Vimy names remaining
Remaining Cemeteries
179 Cemeteries
128 Completed
6 Partially complete
51 Remaining
817 Known Graves/Memorials
475 Photographed
164 Graves remaining
178 Vimy names remaining
Remaining Cemeteries
In 1914, the officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of The Royal Canadian Regiment (The RCR) formed a large share of the approximately 3000 professional soldiers in Canada's army. While the single infantry regiment of Regulars might have expected to find itself despatched to Europe at the outbreak of the First World War, this was not to be. Instead, the Department of Militia sent its one infantry battalion to garrison Bermuda for a year while Sir Sam Hughes executed his plan to create a new Expeditionary Force separate from the Regular Army and the Canadian Militia. The RCR would later join the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France as a unit of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, and the question of its deployment to Bermuda would be raised in the Canadian Parliament.
The RCR would serve in France and Fanders from November 1915 until the end of the War and approximately 4000 Canadians would wear the eight-pointed star and fight as Royal Canadians.
This pages linked from this introduction will attempt to present the story of The RCR in the Geat War through a new presentation of existing documents combining the unit's War Diary and existing information on the officers and on the NCOs and soldiers of the Regiment.Pro Patria