The North Alberta Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of the Canadian Militia (now the Canadian Army). In 1936, the regiment was disbanded as a result of a country-wide reorganization of the Canadian Militia.^[1][2][3]

Lineage

Perpetuations

History

The North Alberta Regiment was first authorized on 15 March 1924 when The Alberta Regiment was reorganized and split into two separate regiments, The North Alberta Regiment and The South Alberta Regiment (now part of the South Alberta Light Horse).^[1] The perpetuations of CEF units granted to The Alberta Regiment were split among both new regiments.^[4]

It was headquartered at Killam and had companies at Camrose, Killam, Hardisty and Sedgewick.^[1]

On 1 February 1936, The North Alberta Regiment was disbanded along with 13 other regiments as part of the 1936 Canadian Militia reorganization.^[1][5][6]

Organization

Battle Honours

• Mount Sorrel^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Somme, 1916, '18^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Flers–Courcelette
• Thiepval
• Ancre Heights
• Arras, 1917, '18
• Vimy, 1917^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Arleux
• Scarpe, 1917, '18
• Hill 70^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Ypres, 1917^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Passchendaele^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Amiens^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Drocourt–Quéant
• Hindenburg Line
• Canal du Nord
• Cambrai, 1918^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• Pursuit to Mons^{[lower-alpha 1]}
• France and Flanders, 1915–18^{[lower-alpha 1]}

References