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BATTLE HONOURS



THE GOVERNOR GENERAL HORSE GUARDS LINEAGE

  • Button's Troop - 1810

  • Denison's Troop - 1822

  • Governor General's Body Guards - 1866

  • The Mississauga Horse - 1901

  • The Governor General's Horse Guards - 1936



MOTTO

  • ''Nulli Secundus'' - Second to None

  • ''Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense'' - Evil (or shame) to those who evil thinks



MUSIC

  • March: Men of Harlech

  • Trot: Keel Row



AFFILIATED REGIMENT

  • The Royal Canadian Dragoons



ALLIED WITH

  • The Blues and Royals (The Royal Horse Guards - 1st Dragoons)

  • 1st the Queen's Dragoon Guards



PERPETUATING

  • Governor General's Body Guards

  • 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (CEF)

  • 7th Canadian Mounted Rifles (CEF)

  • 216th Battalion (CEF)

  • Mississauga Horse



SPECIMEN MEMBERS



SEE ALSO



EXTERNAL LINKS



REFERENCES


  • ''The Governor General's Horse Guards - Second to None'', John Marteinson & Scott Duncan, 2002, Robin Brass Studio Books, ISBN 1-896941-28-1

  • ''Historical Record of the Governor General's Body Guard and its Standing Orders'', Frederick Denison, 1876, Hunter, Rose, & Co



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