Oranization - Armoured Recce Regts.

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by Bill Alexander
The IV PLDG's were the armoured recce battalion for 1st Div until the summer of 1944. At that time they were converted to an infantry battalion and served with the 11th Infantry Brigade until February 1945. The unit was then converted back to armoured recce. During the period that the Plugs were an infantry battalion, they kept the naming of squadrons for the infantry companies. This often leads to confusion about the role of the Plugs. They were heavily engaged as an infantry battalion in the fall of 1944 and until Operation Goldflake in the late winter of 1945.

Hi Bill;

4th PLDG were a Recce Regiment, not Armd Recce and also they served as an infantry battalion in the 12th Inf Bde, not 11th, after being re-allocated to the C.I.C. from the C.A.C. They reverted back to the C.A.C. upon the breakup of the 12th, after arrival in the NWE theatre of operations and resumed their role as the Div Recce Regt for the Cdn 1st Inf Div in NWE from effective 15 Mar 45 onwards

Serial No. 580 - 4th Reconnaissance Regiment (4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards), C.A.C. - Converted & Redesignated: Serial No. 580 - 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, C.I.C. - GO 18/45 - Effective 13 Jul 44

Serial No. 580 - 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, C.I.C.
Converted & Redesignated: Serial No. 580 - 4th Reconnaissance Regiment (4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards), C.A.C. - GO 252/45 - Effective 15 Mar 45

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