ARMOURED CAR REGIMENT

[LONGSHANKS]

Hi all, just wanted to get some opinions on this one. Is it something rare and worth getting. I don't really collect Canadian, but might be worth it to sell on.

Thanks

[DavidS]

A perfectly good 2nd Armoured Car Regiment badge (well, except for some bent lugs and staining). These are not reproed at all to my knowledge, and figure a value in the $50 Cdn. range.

[Moe RCNR]

Helllo Longshanks: This regiment was not mobilized as a unit. It was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and provided recruits for other units during WWII.
Cheers.
Moe.

[Bill A]

To add to Moe's answer, the 2nd Armoured Car contributed, with the Manitoba Mounted Rifles and the 12 Manitoba Dragoons to the 18 Recce. The three units were the mobilization base for the 18th, but because they all wore their regimental insignia, the unit had a bit of an indentity crisis. The badge designed for the 18th was rejected, and the unit was basically told to use the 12 Manitoba Dragoons insignia.

[Recce]

The Canadian 18 Armoured Car Regiment which later became The 12th Manitoba Dragoons were pre WW2 militia unit,
that was converted to armour after 1940. The 12th Manitoba Dragoons were a armoured car unit, equipped with Staghound cars,
that were rubber tired, and had a good road speed as The 18th Armoured Car Regiment, being the scouts/recce force maneuvering
ahead of the main force, to locate the enemy. They depended on their speed and agility outrunning and out foxing the Panzer's.
Lightly armed and with a lower profile than the Sherman tank, their main role being, the eyes of the brigade.




Picture Source; LAC.


The 18th Armoured Car Regiment 12th Manitoba Dragoons, the link below shows the uniform insignia,
vehicle markings, and divisional insignia for both units, and the unit's movements during "The Good War"

http://www.rcaca.org/includes/r-Manitobas.asp


The home of the
XII Manitoba Dragoons
and 26 Field Regiment
Museum.

http://www.12mbdragoons.com/



The Canadian Armoured Corps was virtually non-existent in 1939, yet by 1945 was fielding two full armoured divisions (the 4th and 5th),
in addition to an independent armoured brigade and numerous smaller units. It owes its existence to the tireless efforts of one man, Captain
(later Major General) Frank Worthington. Known invariably as "Worthy", he had served with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps in 1918, where
he learned first-hand of the value of armour on the battlefield. One of the few who stayed with the miniscule Permanent Force between the wars,
Worthy never tired of pushing for an armoured element in the Canadian Army. His dream was in part realized in 1930, when he was permitted to
form the Canadian Armoured Fighting Vehicle School at Camp Borden [Ontario] in 1930.

http://www.mapleleafup.org/vehicles/cac/index.html

[Bill A]

Hi Recce, You have the sequence backwards. The 18th Recce was formed from three militia units at the time of mobilization. It was later renamed the 12 Manitoba Dragoons. See this thread for more information.
http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...itoba+dragoons

[Recce]

The Regiment mobilized the 18th (Manitoba) Reconnaissance Battalion on 10 May 1941. It was redesignated 18th (Manitoba) Armoured Car Regiment
on 26 January 1942 and it embarked for the United Kingdom in September 1942 as the armoured car regiment of 4th Canadian Armoured Division.
It was redesignated 18th Armoured Car Regiment (12th Manitoba Dragoons) on 16 December 1942, and became the armoured car regiment of
2nd Canadian Corps. It landed in Normandy and fought throughout the North-West European campaign as a unit of 2nd Canadian Corps Troops.

I just saw and fixed.

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