• The Royal Canadian Regiment
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    • The Colonel Lawson Foyer
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    • The Colonel Weldon Library and
      The Museum Chapel
    • The Early Years
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    • The Korean War
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    • The Infantry Gallery
    • The Ivey Medal Room
    • The Regimental Memorial
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    • Wolseley Hall
  • The Regimental History
    • The Regimental History
    • General Regimental History
    • 1883-1894: The Infantry School Corps
    • 1885: The North-West Canada Campaign
    • 1894-1900: The End of the Victorian Era
    • 1899-1900: The South African War
    • 1900-1914: The Edwardian Era
    • 1914-1919: The First World War
    • 1919-1939: The Inter-War Years
    • 1939-1945: The Second World War
    • 1945-1953: The Post War Period
      and The Korean War
    • 1953-1992: The Cold War
    • 1992-2005: The Peacemaking Era
    • 20 Questions: The Young Soldier
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      Sergeants and Warrant Officers
    • 20 Questions: The Young Officer
    • 20 Questions: Operations
    • A Regimental Bibliography
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  • Beaver Island
  • Their Names Liveth For Evermore, by Capt M.M. O'Leary
  • Greatest Hardships: A Soldier's Memories of Sicily and Italy, by George Burrows
  • The Battle of Paardeberg, by WO Ross Appleton, CD (1RCR)
  • 460196 Pte C.R.P. Thompson, DCM and Bar, MM, by WO Ross Appleton, CD (1RCR)
  • 3RCR Wins World Overseas Pacestick Champions 2007, by WO Steve Gillis, CD
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Pte. Heath Mathews, a signaller with "C" Coy of the 1st Bn, The Royal Canadian Regiment, after a patrol, 22 June 1952. (National Archives of Canada Photograph PA 128850 by Paul J. Tomelin)

1945-1953
The Royal Canadian Regiment in
The Post War Period and the Korean War

• The Roll of Honour - The Korean War
• Narrative of 1 Bn RCR's Tour in the Line; Aug/Nov on HILL 355
• Memories of Korea - 1953
• Training for Korea, Part 1
• Training for Korea, Part 2
• Extracts from a letter by Mr. L.J. Murphy (SN 1636)
• The Battle of Chail-Li; The Battle for Kakhul-Bong - 30 May 1951 (2RCR)
• The Korean War Memorial
• The RCR - Operations Since 1945