The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own)

The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own)
Regimental badge
Active	12 October 1883–Present
Country	Canada
Branch	Canadian Army Primary Reserve
Type	Armoured reconnaissance
Role	To obtain timely and accurate information that both satisfies the commanders information requirements and is provided quickly enough to be incorporated into the commanders operational planning process.
Part of	39 Canadian Brigade Group 3rd Canadian Division
Garrison/HQ	Beatty Street Drill Hall Vancouver, British Columbia
Nickname(s)	"The Dukes"
Patron	Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Motto(s)	Irish: Faugh a ballagh (Clear the way)
March	"I'm Ninety-Five"
Battle honours	South Africa, 1900 Ypres, 1915, '17 Gravenstafel St. Julien Festubert, 1915 Mount Sorrel Somme, 1916, '18 Flers–Courcelette Thiepval Ancre Heights Ancre, 1916 Arras, 1917, '18 Vimy, 1917 Arleux Hill 70 Passchendaele Amiens Scarpe, 1917, '18 Drocourt–Quéant Hindenburg Line Canal du Nord Cambrai, 1918 Valenciennes France and Flanders, 1915–18 Falaise Falaise Road The Laison Chambois The Scheldt The Lower Maas The Rhineland The Hochwald Veen Twente Canal Küsten Canal Bad Zwischenahn North-West Europe, 1944–1945 Afghanistan
Commanders
Commanding officer	LCol Douglas Evans
Abbreviation	BCR (DCO)

Beatty Street Drill Hall

The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) is a Primary Reserve armoured reconnaissance (recce) regiment of the Canadian Army; the regiment is subordinate to 39 Canadian Brigade Group of the 3rd Canadian Division. Established in 1883, it is the oldest military unit in Vancouver, British Columbia. It parades at the Beatty Street Drill Hall at the corner of Dunsmuir and Beatty in downtown Vancouver. The regiment has been variously designated as garrison artillery, rifles, infantry, and armoured, but has been reconnaissance since 1965. It has received 41 battle honours in its history, and has been a unit of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps since 1942.

The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) originated in Victoria, British Columbia on 12 October 1883, when the British Columbia Provisional Regiment of Garrison Artillery was formed. It was redesignated as the British Columbia Brigade of Garrison Artillery on 7 May 1886, as the British Columbia Battalion of Garrison Artillery on 1 January 1893, as the 5th British Columbia Battalion of Garrison Artillery on 1 January 1895 and the 5th British Columbia Regiment, Canadian Artillery on 28 December 1895. The regiment was reorganized and split into two battalions on 1 July 1896, designated the 1st Battalion (now the 5th (British Columbia) Field Artillery Regiment, RCA) and 2nd Battalion, which was detached and converted to infantry and redesignated the 6th Battalion Rifles on 1 August 1899, with headquarters in Vancouver. It was redesignated the 6th Regiment The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles on 1 May 1900.