Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

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The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps (RCAC) is the armoured branch of service of the Canadian Forces Land Force Command (Canadian Army), including regular force and militia regiments. The corps was formed in 1940 as the Canadian Armoured Corps, but claimed lineage from the Canadian Tank Corps of the First World War. The Royal designation was added in 1945. Canadian armoured regiments split their heritage between the cavalry, from whom many armoured regiments were created, and the infantry beginning in 1936 with the creation of Infantry (Tank) regiments and continuing from 1940 when many infantry regiments mobilized armoured units for the Second World War and eventually transferred from the (Royal) Canadian Infantry Corps into the RCAC.

Regular Force regiments

1. Royal Canadian Dragoons
2. Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
3. 12^e Régiment blindé du Canada

Reserve Force regiments

1. The Governor General's Horse Guards
2. 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)
3. The Ontario Regiment (RCAC)
4. The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC)
5. Sherbrooke Hussars
6. 12^e Régiment blindé du Canada (Milice)
7. 1st Hussars
8. The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)
9. The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)
10. The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) (RCAC)
11. The South Alberta Light Horse
12. The Saskatchewan Dragoons
13. The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)
14. The British Columbia Dragoons
15. The Fort Garry Horse
16. Le Régiment de Hull (RCAC)
17. The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)

Regiments that have the letters "RCAC" as part of their name are those that have no cavalry heritage: they are either former infantry regiments that converted to armour, or created directly as an armoured unit. The 12^e Régiment blindé du Canada is converted from infantry, but does not have the RCAC suffix because the word blindé in its title is sufficient to indicate its armoured role.

Equipment

The main vehicles operated by the RCAC include:

• Leopard C2 main battle tank
• Coyote reconnaissance vehicle; this is in service with the Regular force regiments
• Cougar reconnaissance vehicle; this is used by the Militia regiments

Order of precedence

RCHA on parade with guns: (See note below)

|- style="text-align: center;" | width="30%" |Preceded by:
Army elements of
Royal Military College of Canada | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
(Armour Branch) | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
Royal Canadian Artillery

RCHA on dismounted parades: (See note below)

|- style="text-align: center;" | width="30%" |Preceded by:
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
'' | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
(Armour Branch) | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
Royal Canadian Artillery

Note: The honour of "The Right of the Line" (precedence over other units), on an army parade, is held by the units of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery when on parade with their guns. On dismounted parades, RCHA units take precedence over all other land force units except formed bodies of Officer Cadets of the Royal Military College representing their college. RCA units parade to the left of units of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.

See also

• Royal Armoured Corps
• Royal Australian Armoured Corps
• Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps

Canadian Forces Personnel Branches

Air Operations Branch | Band Branch | Cadet Instructors Cadre | Canadian Forces Medical Service | Canadian Forces Military Police | Canadian Military Engineers | Chaplain Branch | Communications and Electronics Branch | Dental Branch | Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Branch | Intelligence Branch | Legal Branch | Logistics Branch | Naval Operations Branch | Personnel Selection Branch | Postal Branch | Public Affairs Branch | Royal Canadian Armoured Corps | Royal Canadian Infantry Corps | Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery | Training Development Branch

 

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