31 Canadian Brigade Group

Wolseley Barracks

31 Canadian Brigade Group (31 CBG) is an Army Reserve Formation of the 4th Canadian Division and is headquartered in London, Ontario.

The Brigade's area of responsibility reaches from Hamilton to Windsor and north to Owen Sound and Barrie. The Brigade has nearly 2500 members, the vast majority of whom are part-time Reserve soldiers. In recent years, the Brigade has deployed hundreds of soldiers on overseas operations in Afghanistan and to other theatres such as Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Eastern Europe. 31 CBG has also deployed a large number of soldiers on domestic operations, including flood control operations and providing soldiers to Operation PROVISION for the support of Syrian refugees in 2015-16. Annually, soldiers from across 31 CBG deploy on northern sovereignty exercises in the Canadian Arctic.

• 1^st Hussars (London, Sarnia)
• The Windsor Regiment (RCAC)
• 11^th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA (Guelph, Hamilton)
• 31 Combat Engineer Regiment (The Elgin’s) (St. Thomas, Waterloo)
• 31 Signal Regiment (Hamilton and London)
• The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment) (Hamilton, Burlington)
• 4^th Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (London, Stratford)
• The Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada (Cambrige, Kitchener)
• The Grey and Simcoe Foresters (Owen Sound, Barrie)
• The Essex and Kent Scottish (Windsor, Chatham)
• The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) (Hamilton)
• 31 Service Battalion (Windsor, Hamilton, London)

When you join our unit, you will receive competitive pay for your part time or full time work as well as be eligible for on the job training that could benefit you in civilian life. Also, there are medical, dental and educational benefits available to Army Reservists.

Here are all the details:

• Serve part time in the CAF
• Competitive pay
• On the job training
• Medical and dental benefits
• Paid education

• Commander: Colonel Chris Brown, CD
• Sergeant Major: Chief Warrant Officer Tracy Sharp, CD

31 Canadian Brigade Group Headquarters
Wolseley Barracks
701 Oxford St. East
London, Ontario N5Y 4T7

Phone: 519-660-5275

Headquarters are not traditionally considered to have lineages similar to military units. 31 Canadian Brigade Group Headquarters does, however, continue a heritage of military headquarters in London which have, for over a century, commanded units of the Canadian Army in South-Western Ontario. Depending on the Army's organization, the various headquarters that have been located in London have seen changes in the number of units and the size of the area of operational responsibility they commanded.

As early as the 1860s, the number of Militia units throughout the Canadian provinces outgrew the span of control possible for a single centralized headquarters, and a more comprehensive command structure was required. In 1868, a system of Military Districts was created and assigned the responsibility for overseeing the training and coordinating the administrative of Militia units in their assigned areas. These Military Districts were further divided into "Brigade Divisions".