Ontario Mounted Rifles
Good question Ray, I am not sure. The regiment perpetuated the 4 CMRR and the 9th Mississauga Horse of the Canadian militia. The Ontario Mounted Rifles were formed by redesignating the 9th MH on March 15, 1920 to the OMR, and then back to the Mississauga Horse in 1924. The OMR also were intended to represent the 4th CMR in the post war militia.
The obvious connection with the "Overseas" would be the perpetuation of the honours won by the 4 CMRR. That CEF unit had originally been called the ONTARIO MOUNTED RIFLES, later renamed the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles. (Still later the designation added the "Regiment" and officially became the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifle Regiment.) The 4th CMR were recruited from the Governor General's Body Guard, the 9th Mississauga Horse, 25th Brant Dragoons, and the 2nd Dragoons. The 4th CMR were perpetuated by the Mississauga Horse, which in turn is now perpetuated by the Governor General's Horse Guards.
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