Naming conventions for Canadian units - Revision history

GavinRobinson: now put into effect; added more examples and exceptions

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now put into effect; added more examples and exceptions

GavinRobinson: links to official lineages

2016-02-29T09:39:51Z

links to official lineages

GavinRobinson: /* Canadian Expeditionary Force */ more details of battalion names

2016-02-26T18:35:43Z

‎Canadian Expeditionary Force: more details of battalion names

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''This page is currently a rough draft. Existing pages for Canadian units aren't always consistent with these conventions or with each other.''

{{Naming conventions}}

See [[Canadian units in World War I]] for more examples.

Page names should generally have a suffix unless they already contain the word "Canadian".

The word "The" is usually omitted from regiment names.

== Canadian Expeditionary Force ==

The page names of divisions and corps are the same as their full names, so unit_name1 etc. isn't needed.

* [[Canadian Corps]]
* [[1st Canadian Division]]
* [[2nd Canadian Division]]
* [[3rd Canadian Division]]
* [[4th Canadian Division]]
* [[5th Canadian Division]]

Most other page names use the suffix ", Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)".

For example:

* [[1st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
* [[1st Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

There might be some exceptions where the unit name is closely related to a division or corps name.

== Permanent Force ==

Full names are as shown in the [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1287/mode/2up 1914 British Army List]. Page names will usually match full names (for example, [[Royal Canadian Regiment]]), but there might be some exceptions.

[[Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry]] is currently assumed to be part of the Permanent Force.

The situation is more complicated for cavalry. See the next section below.

== CEF and Permanent mounted units ==

There were two cavalry regiments in the Permanent Force:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Page name
!Full name
|-
|[[Royal Canadian Dragoons, Canadian Permanent Force]]
|Royal Canadian Dragoons
|-
|[[Lord Strathcona's Horse, Canadian Permanent Force]]
|Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
|}

Each of these formed a duplicate regiment in 1914 for overseas service with the CEF:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Page name
!Full name
|-
|[[Royal Canadian Dragoons, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
|Royal Canadian Dragoons, Canadian Expeditionary Force
|-
|[[Lord Strathcona's Horse, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
|Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), Canadian Expeditionary Force
|}

The [[Fort Garry Horse, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]] was formed in France and was only distantly related to the similarly named militia regiment.

=== Canadian Mounted Rifles ===

Canadian Mounted Rifles units were originally [[mounted infantry regiment]]s but were converted into [[infantry battalion]]s in France. They will have separate pages for their mounted and infantry incarnations. For example:

* [[1st Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
* [[1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]

== Non-Permanent Active Militia ==

We don't yet have pages or page naming conventions for these units. Full names will be as shown in the [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1291/mode/2up 1914 British Army List].

== Royal Canadian Navy ==

We don't yet have pages or naming conventions for the navy.

[[Category:Canada]]

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 * [[1st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)]]
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 There might be some exceptions where the unit name is closely related to a division or corps name.
 The full names of infantry battalions often have a geographical or regiment name in brackets. These seem to have changed in some cases. Full names can go in unit_name1 etc. in {{tl|infobox military unit}}. We don't yet know a canonical source for these names so they're mostly taken from Wikipedia. The [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/index-eng.asp Official Lineages of Canadian regiments] only give CEF battalions in the form '1st Battalion, CEF' without showing the names in brackets.
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-The full names of infantry battalions often have a geographical or regiment name in brackets. These seem to have changed in some cases. Full names can go in unit_name1 etc. in {{tl|infobox military unit}}. We don't yet know a canonical source for these names so they're mostly taken from Wikipedia.
+The full names of infantry battalions often have a geographical or regiment name in brackets. These seem to have changed in some cases. Full names can go in unit_name1 etc. in {{tl|infobox military unit}}. We don't yet know a canonical source for these names so they're mostly taken from Wikipedia. The [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/index-eng.asp Official Lineages of Canadian regiments] only give CEF battalions in the form '1st Battalion, CEF' without showing the names in brackets.
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 Full names are as shown in the [https://archive.org/stream/armylistjul1914grea#page/1287/mode/2up 1914 British Army List]. Page names will usually match full names (for example, [[Royal Canadian Regiment]]), but there might be some exceptions.
-[[Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry]] is currently assumed to be part of the Permanent Force.
+[[Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry]] was a new regiment raised in 1914. It originally formed part of the CEF. The CEF component was disbanded in 1920 but a Permanent Force component had already been formed in 1919. For the purposes of this site only the CEF part needs to be covered, so no suffix is needed for disambiguation.<ref>[http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-3/par2/ppclir-eng.asp Official Lineage: PPCLI]</ref>
 The situation is more complicated for cavalry. See the next section below.
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-Each of these formed a duplicate regiment in 1914 for overseas service with the CEF:
+Each of these formed a duplicate regiment in 1914 for overseas service with the CEF:<ref>[http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-3/par1/arm-bli/LSH-eng.asp Official Lineage: Lord Strathcona's Horse], [http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-3/par1/arm-bli/RCD-eng.asp Official Lineage: Royal Canadian Dragoons]</ref>
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