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19 unusual facts about Canadian Army


1 Area Support Group

1 Area Support Group is a Canadian Army formation that provides support to other Canadian Army formations and units in western Canada.

2 Intelligence Company

2 Intelligence Company formally returned to the Canadian Army’s Order of Battle on October 29, 1993 as Land Force Central Intelligence Company.

As a result the Canadian Army had no officers or men trained in "field intelligence" at the beginning of World War II.

Baz Bastien

His playing career was temporarily interrupted by a two year stint of military service with the Canadian Army.

Chana Timoner

Her mother had joined the Canadian Army to fight in World War II in 1940, a year before the United States entered the war, and in 1941 her mother transferred to the newly organized Women's Army Corps of the United States.

Clarence B. Farrar

As a chief psychiatrist for the Canadian Army, Captain Farrar researched psychiatric cases of soldiers with shell shock and published his findings with Charles Kirk Clarke.

Conrad Lynn

Winfred Lynn refused induction into the United States Army as a protest against the Army's racial segregation, telling the government that he would gladly serve in the unsegregated Canadian Army, but would not serve in the segregated U.S. Army.

Edensor

The churchyard also contains three Commonwealth service war graves of World War I: a British soldier, a British sailor and a Canadian Army officer.

Fort Frontenac Library

The Fort Frontenac Library, located within the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, Fort Frontenac, Kingston, Ontario, is the main research library for the Canadian Army.

Hugh R. Stephen

After six years in the Canadian Army, including a stint with Southeast Asia Command, Hugh entered business in 1946 as owner-manager of New Method Laundries, which he sold in 1963.

Huntley Gordon

He served in the Canadian Army during World War I and began a career in motion pictures in England where he had been stationed during the war.

John DeSantis

Prior to his acting career, he served for two years in the Canadian Army.

Locally listed buildings in Crawley

It was used by the Canadian Army during World War II, then became flats and was demolished.

Norton 16H

British Army Nortons were also supplied to the Commonwealth forces such as Australian, New Zealand, India and the Canadian Army.

Red River of the North

The city turned to the Canadian Army and the Red Cross for help, and nearly 70,000 people were evacuated from their homes and businesses.

Salerno Lake

Originally named Devil's Lake, the name was changed to Salerno after the Italian city of that name after the Salerno landings during 1943, in respect of which the Canadian Army played a prominent role.

Sedgman Lake Provincial Park

Sedgman Lake was named May 5, 1960 in honour of World War II casualty Private Alfred Thomas Sedgman who died while serving in the Canadian Army (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders) on February 26, 1945.

Stephen Worobetz

During World War II, he served as a medical officer with the Canadian Army in Italy and was awarded the Military Cross.

Zeballos, British Columbia

With the onset of World War II, Zeballos lost significant numbers of its workforce to the Canadian Army.


2nd/10th Dragoons

The 2nd/10th Dragoons (short-form: 2/10 D) (in its last incarnation, the 57th Field Artillery Regiment 2nd/10th Dragoons, Royal Canadian Artillery or 57 FD REGT RCA) was a militia regiment of the Canadian Army, based in the Niagara, Wentworth and Brant regions of southern Ontario.

4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

"Herbie" the cartoon soldier that appeared in the Canadian Army's newspaper, The Maple Leaf, was the brainchild of Sergeant William Garnet "Bing" Coughlin of 4th PLDG.

Armed Forces Council

The Armed Forces Council is chaired by the CDS and consists of the CDS, the Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, the heads of each of the three service environments of the CF: the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force, as well as other senior officers.

Canada–Netherlands relations

The Canadian Army have increased its presence with main battle tanks, some ten Leopard C2 and twenty Leopard 2A6M CAN, approximately one hundred LAV III armoured vehicles and currently use six 155 mm M777 howitzers in Afghanistan.

CFB Moncton

The Moncton Garrison survived into the Cold War and was renamed Canadian Forces Base Moncton (CFB Moncton) in February 1968 following the unification of the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force to create the Canadian Forces.

Courtney Hodges

The 21st Army Group usually consisted of divisions from the British Army and the Canadian Army.

Donald Ethell

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a nurse and a navy chief petty officer, he enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1955 after being rejected by the Navy and rejected from the Air Force.

Front de libération du Québec

In 1963, Gabriel Hudon and Raymond Villeneuve were sentenced to 12 years in prison after their bomb killed Wilfred O'Neill, a watchman at Montreal's Canadian Army Recruitment Centre.

Irish National War Memorial Gardens

The Memorial Gardens also commemorate all other Irish men and women who at that time served, fought and died in Irish regiments of the Allied armies, the British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and United States armies in support of the Triple Entente's war effort against the Central Powers.

Light Aid Detachment

These units provide dedicated logistic support to every field unit of the British Army or Canadian Army.

Robert Borrie

Prior to his federal political experience, he served in the Canadian Army as a Corporal in 1945.

Royal Canadian Air Force Police

Following amalgamation of the three services into the Canadian Forces in 1968, the AFP was merged with the police units of the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Army to become simply the Military Police; under the Canadian Armed Forces Security and Intelligence Branch.