Sherbrooke Hussars
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| Active | 21 September 1866 – present |
| Country | Canada |
| Branch | Primary Reserve |
| Type | Line cavalry |
| Role | Armoured |
| Size | One regiment |
| Part of | Royal Canadian Armoured Corps |
| Motto(s) | In Hoc Signo Stabilitas (Latin, "In This Sign, Stability") |
| March | "Regimental March of the Sherbrooke Hussars" |
The Sherbrooke Hussars is a Primary Reserve armoured regiment of the Canadian Forces and perpetuates the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment of the Second World War.
The naming conventions of the Canadian Army can be confusing. Regular Force armoured and infantry units are not usually named for a location, because personnel are drawn from across the country. Artillery and engineer units are almost always numbered, but may have a distinctive nickname. Reserve armoured and infantry units generally are named, and may carry a number if it has historical significance. In wartime, units raised for the duration often are numbered.
During the Second World War, The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment was the 27th Canadian Armoured Regiment. The number 27 having no particular significance, and the unit was demobilized in 1946. That same year, the Sherbrooke Regiment was renamed the 12th Armoured Regiment (Sherbrooke Regiment). Again the number 12 meant nothing. The tale gets more complicated. Numbers 12 and 27 which had been associated with Sherbrooke units were reissued to other units. In 1954, the Elgin Regiment, which was known as the 25th Canadian Armoured Delivery Regiment in the Second World War, and had coincidently served in close cooperation with the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment, was renamed The Elgin Regiment (27th Armoured Regiment). Why the number 25 was not reactivated is unknown. In 1968, only a few years after The Sherbrooke Hussars was formed with the merger of The Sherbrooke Regiment and the 7th/11th Hussars, itself numbered as the 16th, the number 12 was issued to the 12e Régiment blindé du Canada. The 12eRBC was raised as a francophone Regular Force armoured regiment adopting the badge and customs of 12th Armd Regt (Three Rivers Regt), RCAC, CASF. The wartime Three Rivers Regiment was reconstituted in 1947 as the 24th Armd Regt (Three Rivers Regt), and reassumed its identity as number 12.
The Sherbrooke Regiment was initially formed on 21 September 1866 in Melbourne, Quebec as the Sherbrooke Battalion of Infantry, becoming the 53rd (Sherbrooke) Battalion in 1867. The regiment perpetuates the Frontier Light Infantry as well as the 1st and 4th battalions of the Eastern Township District (1812-1815) from the War of 1812. As a result, the regiment carries the Theatre Battle Honour, Defence of Canada 1812-15, in recognition of the service rendered by the Frontier Light Infantry at the Battle of Lacolle Mills (1814).
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