New Second World War "Honorary Distinctions" awarded to CA units (2015)

[McG]

CANFORGEN 031/15 CMP 014/15 111630Z FEB 15
ALLOCATION OF HONORARY DISTINCTIONS
UNCLASSIFIED


1.   IN NOVEMBER 2014 THE CANADIAN FORCES HONOURS POLICY COMMITTEE, ACTING AS THE CANADIAN FORCES BATTLE HONOURS COMMITTEE, CONCLUDED THAT FIVE UNITS OF THE CANADIAN ARMY WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE JOINT MOBILIZATION OF SPECIFIC COMPOSITE UNITS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WERE NOT RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS IN A FASHION SIMILAR TO OTHER UNITS OF THE CANADIAN ARMY


2.   IN KEEPING WITH CANADIAN MILITARY TRADITION AND PRECEDENT SET IN THE BATTLE HONOURS PROCESS AND ON THE UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATION OF THE BATTLE HONOURS COMMITTEE, THE ALLOCATION OF THE EMBLAZONABLE HONORARY DISTINCTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

A.   THE WARTIME BADGE OF THE NORTH NOVA SCOTIA HIGHLANDERS WITH THE YEAR DATES QUOTE 1944-45 UNQUOTE TO THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND REGIMENT (RCAC) IN RECOGNITION OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND HIGHLANDERS IN THE MOBILIZATION OF THE CANADIAN ACTIVE SERVICE FORCE (CASF) UNIT OF THE NORTH NOVA SCOTIA HIGHLANDERS, AND

B.   THE WARTIME BADGE OF THE REGINA RIFLE REGIMENT WITH THE YEAR DATES QUOTE 1944-45 UNQUOTE TO THE NORTH SASKATCHEWAN REGIMENT IN RECOGNITION OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE PRINCE ALBERT AND BATTLEFORD VOLUNTEERS IN THE MOBILIZATION OF THE CASF UNIT OF THE REGINA RIFLE REGIMENT


3.   THE AWARD OF HONORARY DISTINCTIONS TO THE FOLLOWING UNITS, IF AND WHEN THEY ARE EVER ACTIVATED FROM THE SUPPLEMENTARY ORDER OF BATTLE AND CONVERTED TO ARMOUR OR INFANTRY UNITS IS AUTHORIZED:

A.   THE WARTIME BADGE OF THE STORMONT, DUNDAS AND GLENGARRY HIGHLANDERS WITH THE YEAR DATES QUOTE 1944-45 UNQUOTE TO THE PRINCE OF WALES RANGERS (PETERBOROUGH REGIMENT) IN RECOGNITION OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY THAT REGIMENT IN THE MOBILIZATION OF THE CASF UNIT OF THE STORMONT, DUNDAS AND GLENGARRY HIGHLANDERS,

B.   THE WARTIME BADGE OF THE 12TH MANITOBA DRAGOONS WITH THE YEAR DATES QUOTE 1944-45 UNQUOTE TO THE MANITOBA MOUNTED RIFLES IN RECOGNITION OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY THAT REGIMENT IN THE MOBILIZATION OF THE CASF UNIT OF THE 12TH MANITOBA DRAGOONS, AND

C.   THE WARTIME BADGE OF THE 12TH MANITOBA DRAGOONS WITH THE YEAR DATES QUOTE 1944-45 UNQUOTE TO THE 2ND ARMOURED CAR REGIMENT IN RECOGNITION OF THE ROLE PLAYED BY THAT REGIMENT IN THE MOBILIZATION OF THE CASF UNIT OF THE 12TH MANITOBA DRAGOONS

 

[AJFitzpatrick]

Are the 2nd Armoured Car Regiment (never heard of this unit before) and the Manitoba Mounted Rifles  even on the S.O.B. List ? Curious as the units didn't seem to exist at the time of the S.O.B. coming into exisitance and they certainly aren't on this list.

http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-3/par1/arm-bli/index-eng.asp.

However, there is no guarantee the above list is complete.

The Prince of Wales Rangers lineage as an active united ended as the 50th Field Artillery Regiment (The Prince of Wales Rangers), RCA and went on the Supplementary Order of Battle on 1 April 1970 and are noted as such here
http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-3/par1/art/index-eng.asp

 

[Rocky Mountains]

The 2nd Armoured Car Regiment and the Manitoba Mounted Rifles died long before the Supplementary Order of Battle started.  The 12th Manitoba Dragoons is on the SOB.  I am not sure of the point of honouring dead regiments' participtation in a dead regiment and I am not sure what kind of an honour it is to have another regiment's badge on your non-existent guidon. Something wrong with "Northwest Europe 1944-1945?"

 

[AJFitzpatrick]

Perhaps that it is an honours committee and a honorary distinction says it all.