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
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
Garrison/HQ	Beatty Street Drill Hall, Vancouver
Nickname(s)	"The Dukes"
Patron	Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Motto(s)	Irish: faugh a ballagh, lit. 'clear the way'
March	"I'm Ninety-Five"
Engagements	Second Boer War First World War Second World War War in Afghanistan
Battle honours	List of 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
Website	army.gc.ca/en/3-canadian-division/the-british-columbia-regiment/index.page
Commanders
Commanding officer	LCol Adam Brown, CD
Regimental sergeant major	CWO Arnold Matibag
Insignia
NATO Map Symbol
Abbreviation	BCR (DCO)

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, Canada. 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.^[1][2][3]