About The Saskatchewan Dragoons

Headquarters

LCol D.V. Currie VC Armoury
1215 Main Street North
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
S6H 4N6

Phone: (306) 692-2133 or (306) 692-2550
  Fax: (306) 693-0442

Badge

Surmounted by the Crown, the arms of the Province of Saskatchewan (a shield; three garbs in fesse, on the chief a lion passant, guardant); dexter and sinister to the shield the Roman numeral XX; the whole supported by a scroll inscribed ESPRIT D'INITIATIVE (Spirit of Initiative).

Colonel-In-Chief

His Royal Highness the Earl of Wessex, KCVO

Honourary Lieutenant-Colonel

BGen (ret'd) C. Walker CD

Battle Honours

FIRST WORLD WAR: Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 - 18, Vimy 1917, Hill 70, Ypres 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe 1918, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, France and Flanders 1916 - 1918.

The battle honours emphasized are those emblazoned on the Regimental Guidon, which was presented on 3 May 1970 by His Excellency the Right Honourable Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada.

Regimental Birthday

3 July 1905

Regimental Marches

"Punjaub" (brass band);
"Scotland the Brave" (pipe band)

Regimental Motto

ESPRIT D'INITIATIVE ("Spirit of Initiative")

Mascot

"Trooper" -- a burrowing owl

Traditional Uniforms

The traditional uniform for junior officers and senior non-commissioned members is the Patrol Blues uniform with burgundy sash. Senior officers wore scarlets with yellow facing and myrtle green waistcoat.

Published History

McWilliams, James L. and Steel, R. James, The Suicide Battalion, 1978, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton

Victoria Cross Winner

Sergeant Hugh Cairns, V.C., D.C.M., at Valenciennes, 1 November 1918.

Last updated 28 June 2011