37th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA

Lineage

This Reserve Force regiment originated in Montréal, Quebec on 9 May 1905 when the '6th Brigade of Field Artillery, CA' was authorized to be formed.^{Footnote 1} It was redesignated: '2nd Brigade, CFA' on 2 February 1920;^{Footnote 2} '2nd Field Brigade, CA' on 1 July 1925;^{Footnote 3} '2nd Field Brigade, RCA' on 3 June 1935;^{Footnote 4} '2nd (Reserve) Field Brigade, RCA' on 7 November 1940;^{Footnote 5} '2nd (Reserve) Field Regiment, RCA' on 15 December 1943;^{Footnote 6} '37th Field Regiment, RCA' on 1 April 1946;^{Footnote 7} and '37th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA' on 12 April 1960.^{Footnote 8} It was reduced to nil strength and transferred to the Supplementary Order of Battle on 26 February 1965.^{Footnote 9}

Perpetuations

'2nd Brigade, CFA, CEF'

Headquarters location

Montréal, Quebec

Operational history

The First World War

The 2nd Brigade, which was authorized on 6 August 1914 as the '2nd Field Artillery Brigade, CFA, CEF',^{Footnote 10} embarked for Britain on 26 September 1914.^{Footnote 11} It disembarked in France on 12 and 13 February 1915,^{Footnote 12} where it provided field artillery support as part of the 1st Canadian Divisional Artillery in France and Flanders until the end of the war.^{Footnote 13} The brigade was disbanded on 23 October 1920.^{Footnote 14}

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