Royal Canadian Postal Corps

The Royal Canadian Postal Corps
ActiveEstablished 3 May 1911 as The Canadian Postal Corps; redesignated The Royal Canadian Postal Corps on 20 June 1961; disbanded some time after the unification of The Canadian Forces.
CountryCanada
TypeCorps
Role(Canadian Army) Permanent Active Militia
Motto(s)Servire Armatis (Latin, "Serve the Soldier")
MarchPostal "First Post" [1]

The Royal Canadian Postal Corps (RCPC) was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army. The Canadian Postal Corps was redesignated The Royal Canadian Postal Corps on 20 June 1961.[2] The badge of The Royal Canadian Postal Corps consists of a horn, with a Queen's Crown on top. Superimposed at the center of the horn is the text RCPC. At the bottom the text "Servire Armatis" is written on a ribbon.[3]

  1. ^ Canadian Forces publication A-AD-200-000/AG-000, "The Honours, Flags and Heritage Structure of the Canadian Forces"
  2. ^ The Regiments and Corps of the Canadian Army (Queen's Printer, 1964)
  3. ^ "Royal Canadian Postal Corps". 20 November 2007. Archived from the original on 20 November 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2022.