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The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)

LCol Julian R. Benbow1958 - 1959
LCol Harold W. Hill1959 - 1960
LCol Eric L. Barry1960 - 1964
LCol Ken C. Booth1964 - 1967
LCol Herbert W. Locke1967 - 1970
LCol Jean-Pierre Fortier1970 - 1970
LCol Graham Mitchell1971 - 1974
LCol Jean-Jacques Coté1974 - 1974
LCol Graham J. Ball1974 - 1977
LCol Roger W. Turnell1977 - 1979
LCol Roman J. Jarymowycz1979 - 1984
LCol John S. Cochrane1984 - 1987
LCol Guy de V. Domville1987 - 1991
LCol Steven J. Linton1991 - 1992
LCol Guy de V. Domville1992 - 1994
LCol Karl H. Kramell1994 - 1997
LCol Bernard J. A. Ciarroni1997 - 2001
LCol Marc LeBlanc2001 - 2005
LCol J. Cyrice Lelièvre2005 - 2009
LCol Stephen Dubreuil2009 - 2013
LCol John Hlibchuk2013 - 2017
LCol W. Shaun Funk2017 - 2021
LCol Malcolm W. Day2021 -          

6th Duke of Connaught’s Royal Canadian Hussars and predecessors

5th Regiment of Cavalry (later the 5th Dragoons, amalgamated with 6th Duke of Connaught’s Royal Canadian Hussars in 1901)

LCol John Henry Taylor1877 - 1898
LCol John F. Learned1899 - 1901

6th Regiment of Cavalry (Hussars)

LCol John Burwash1879 - 1884
LCol James Barr1884 - 1890

6th Regiment of Cavalry “Duke of Connaught’s Royal Canadian Hussars”

LCol James Barr1890 - 1892
LCol Colin McArthur1892 - 1893

6th Duke of Connaught’s Royal Canadian Hussars (inactive 1920-1930)

LCol Colin McArthur1893 - 1898
LCol Fred Whitley1898 - 1904
LCol John Graham Barr 1904 - 1909
LCol William Henry Schneider1909 - 1915
LCol Joseph Hector Bissonnette1915 - 1919
LCol G. Thomas Guerin1930 - 1936

6th Duke of Connaught’s Royal Canadian Hussars (Armoured Car)

LCol Joseph Darley LeMoyne1936 - 1941

6th Duke of Connaught’s Royal Canadian Hussars NPAM (Non-Permanent Active Militia)

LCol Joseph Darley LeMoyne1938 - 1941

Headquarters Squadron, 5th Canadian Armoured Division (6th Hussars)

Maj Peter Templeton1941 -          
Maj Alexander Thomas Paterson1941 - 1942
Maj Leslie Michael C. St B. Collins1942 - 1944
Maj Harold Hill1944 - 1945

15th (Reserve) Armoured Regiment (6th Hussars)

LCol Joseph Darley LeMoyne1941 - 1944
LCol John W. Long1944 - 1945

6th Duke of Connaught’s Royal Canadian Hussars (1945 – 1957)

LCol Charles O’Conor-Fenton1945 - 1949
LCol Kenneth Martin Case1949 - 1952
LCol Jean Prosper Gautier1952 - 1955
LCol John Alexander Meindl1955 - 1956
LCol Frank Ivan Ritchie1956 - 1957
LCol Erskine Buchanan1957 -          
LCol Harold W. Hill1958 -          

Automobile Machine Gun Brigade No.1 (redesignated 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade 1915)

Maj/LCol Raymond Brutinel1914 - 1915

1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, CEF

Brigade Command Section

Maj/LCol Raymond Brutinel1915 - 1916
LCol Francis Alfred Wilkin1916 - 1918
LCol William K. Walker1918 - 1919

“A” Battery (Automobile Machine Gun Brigade No. 1)

Capt James Edward Browne1914 - 1916
Capt Francis Alfred Wilkin1916 -          
Capt Morris Alexander Scott1916 -          
Maj William Battersby1916 - 1918
Capt Robert Inch1918 -          

“B” Battery (Automobile Machine Gun Brigade No. 1)

Capt Charles Francis Hawkins1914 - 1916
Capt Morris Alexander Scott1916 -          
Capt Ernest Hudson Holland1916 - 1918
Capt Roy Clark1918 -          

“C” Battery (Borden Machine Gun Battery)

Maj Edward James Gibson Holland1914 - 1915
Capt Plantagenet Archibald Gardiner MacCarthy1915 - 1917
Capt William Cedric Nicholson1917 - 1918
Capt Waldo Talbot Trench1918 -          

“D” Battery (Eaton Machine Gun Battery)

Maj William James Morrison1914 - 1915
Maj Edward Lewin Knight1915 - 1916
Maj James Edward Browne1916 -          
Maj Harold Higman Donnelly1916 - 1917
Capt George Thompson Scroggie1917 -          
Capt Robert Dickson Harkness1917 - 1918
Capt George W. de la Poer Beresford1918 -          

“E” Battery (Boyle’s Yukon Machine Gun Battery)

Capt Harry Fred Victor Meurling1916 - 1918
Capt Alban Butler1918 -          
Capt Frederick Frank Worthington1918 - 1919

1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade, CMGC

1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade, CMGC (re-formed as 1st Armoured Car Regiment in 1936)

Col Robert Dickson Harkness1920 - 1921
LCol William Nicholson1921 - 1924
LCol John de Gaspé Audette1924 - 1926
LCol Charles Chandler Brooks1926 - 1930
LCol George Cecil Machum1930 - 1934
LCol H.P.J. Brassart1934 - 1935
LCol Joseph Darley LeMoyne1935 - 1936

1st Armoured Car Regiment (amalgamated with 6th Hussars 1936)

LCol Joseph Darley LeMoyne1936 -          

17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars and predecessors

Montreal Hussars (previously “A” Squadron, 6th Hussars)

Maj Fred Whitley1897 - 1898

Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars (previously Montreal Hussars)

LCol John Bayne Maclean1898 - 1900

17th Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars (1900-1912)

LCol John Bayne Maclean1900 - 1903
Maj William A.C. Lilley1903 - 1905
Maj Reginald Arthur Brock1905 - 1910
LCol James J. Riley1910 - 1912

17th Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars (Argenteuil Rangers) (1912-1919)

LCol James J. Riley1912 - 1915
LCol Joseph E. Seale1915 - 1919

17th Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars (1920-1940)

LCol John Burton White1920 - 1921
LCol Edwin Gill1921 - 1924
LCol Leslie MacMartin Hooker1924 - 1927
LCol Douglas Sutherland Inglis1927 - 1928
LCol Bruce Caverhill Hutchison1928 - 1932
LCol Henry Wyatt Johnston1932 - 1936
LCol Stuart Alexander Terroux1936 - 1938
LCol Harwood Elmes Robert Steele1938 - 1939
Col Charles Basil Price1939 - 1940

17th Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars NPAM (Non-Permanent Active Militia)

Col Charles Basil Price1939 - 1940
LCol Clarence Fisher Smith1940 -          

3rd Canadian Motorcycle Regiment (redesignated 7th Reconnaissance Regiment 1941)

LCol Clarence Fisher Smith1940 - 1941

7th Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Hussars)

LCol Clarence Fisher Smith1941 - 1942
LCol Victor Hugman1942 - 1944
LCol Thomas Cripps Lewis1944 -          
LCol Charles Alexander Baerman1944 - 1945
LCol William C. Bowen1945 -          

2nd/7th Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Hussars)

LCol John Ford Merner1945 - 1946

7th (Reserve) Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Hussars)

LCol Bruce Caverhill Hutchison1940 - 1945
LCol Joseph James Harold1945 - 1946

17th Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars (1946 – 1958)

LCol William C. Bowen1946 - 1947
LCol Edwin Allen1947 - 1952
LCol James E. Domville1952 - 1956
LCol Julian Benbow1956 - 1958

Montreal Cavalry (prior to formation of a regiment)

Royal Montreal Troop of Volunteer Cavalry

Capt George Platt1812 - 1815

Compagnie des Guides

Capt Joseph Ignace Hébert1812 - 1815

Canadian Light Dragoons

Capt Thomas Coleman1813 - 1815

Royal Montreal Cavalry – Command section

Capt George Platt1815 - 1818
Capt Robert Gillespie1818 - 1822
Capt/Maj George Gregory1822 - 1833
Maj John Samuel McCord 1833 - 1838

Royal Montreal Cavalry – No. 1 Troop

Capt Robert Gillespie1822 - 1823
Lt /Capt John Molson Jr.1823 - 1828
Maj John Samuel McCord1828 - 1833
Capt William Forsyth1833 - 1837
Capt Eleazar D. David1837 -          

Royal Montreal Cavalry – No. 2 Troop

Capt/Maj George Gregory1822 - 1827

Lachine Cavalry Troop (was part of the Royal Montreal Cavalry from 1827-1837)

Lt/Capt/Maj Charles Penner1827 - 1839
Capt Archibald Ogilvie1839 - 1845
Capt Archibald Ogilvie, Jr1845 - 1849
Capt Alexander Somerville1849 - 1856

Provincial Cavalry - Royal Montreal Cavalry – Command section

Capt/Maj Eleazar D. David1837 - 1840

Provincial Cavalry - Royal Montreal Cavalry - No. 1 Troop

Lt/Capt Charles Oakes Ermatinger, Jr.1837 - 1850

Provincial Cavalry - Royal Montreal Cavalry - No. 2 Troop

Lt Campbell Sweeney1837 - 1838
Capt Sidney Bellingham1839 -          
Capt William Forsyth1839 - 1842
Capt Campbell Sweeney1842 - 1850

Provincial Cavalry - Queen’s Light Dragoons

Capt (Dr.) Thomas Walter Jones1837 - 1850

Montreal Dragoons (Sedentary)

Capt John Baillie Turner1846 - 1850

Montreal Squadron (1850-1855, Hybrid Volunteer-Sedentary)

Maj Eleazar David1850 - 1855
Capt Charles-Joseph Coursol (A Troop (Montreal))1853 - 1855
Capt Patrick Leslie (B Troop (Montreal))1853 - 1855

Montreal Squadron

Maj Eleazar David1856 - 1866
Maj John Smith1866 - 1867

No. 1 Troop (was part of the Montreal Squadron 1856-1867, became No. 1 Troop, 6th Cavalry in 1879)

Capt David Shaw Ramsay1855 - 1858
Capt Alexander Walker Ogilvie1858 - 1860
Capt William Ogilvie1860 -          
Capt John Smith 1860 - 1866
Capt James Muir1866 - 1874
Capt John Tees1874 - 1879

No. 2 Troop (was part of the Montreal Squadron 1856-1867,disbanded 1867)

Capt Charles-Joseph Coursol1856 - 1858
Capt Henry McGill DesRivières1858 - 1860
Capt Prudent Beaudry1861 - 1862
Capt George T. Languedoc1862 - 1863
Capt George Lafayette Perry1863 - 1867

No. 3 Troop (was part of the Montreal Squadron, disappeared after 1862)

Capt Thomas Morland1856 -          
Capt E. Roy1856 -          
Capt Thomas MacCready1862 -          

No. 4 Troop / The Royal Guides (was part of the Montreal Squadron 1862-1869, was redesignated Governor General’s Body Guard for Lower Canada in 1866)

Capt Dugald Lorn MacDougall1862 - 1866
Capt John Penner1866 - 1868
Capt Thomas Davidson1868 - 1869

St Andrews Troop (became No. 2 Troop, 6th Cavalry in 1879)

Capt John Oswald1856 - 1863
Capt John Burwash1863 - 1879

Argenteuil Cavalry, 2nd Troop (disbanded mid-1860s)

Capt John Simpson1857 -          

Cookshire Troop (became No. 1 Troop, 5th Cavalry in 1877)

Capt John Henry Pope1856 - 1862
Capt James H. Cook1862 - 1865
Capt William Winder1866 - 1870
Capt John Henry Taylor1871 - 1877

Sherbrooke Troop (became No. 2 Troop, 5th Cavalry in 1877)

Capt John Drummond1860 - 1865
Capt Simeon Augustus Stevens1865 - 1871
Cornet William Read1871 - 1877

St Johns-Sabrevois Troop (disbanded February 1869)

Capt Henry McGill DesRivières1862 - 1867
Capt François McGill DesRivières1867 - 1869

Stanstead Troop (became No. 3 Troop, 5th Cavalry in 1877)

Capt Israel Wood1872 - 1882

Compton Troop (became No. 4 Troop, 5th Cavalry in 1877)

Capt Frederick Smith Stimson1872 - 1879

Brome-Sutton Troop (became No. 5 Troop, 5th Cavalry in 1877)

Capt Sherman N. Boright1872 - 1879

Huntingdon-Havelock Troop (became No. 3 Troop, 6th Cavalry in 1879)

Capt James Barr1872 - 1886

Missisquoi-Clarenceville Troop (became No. 4 Troop, 6th Cavalry in 1879)

Capt Hiram C. Bush1872 - 1879

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