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Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps

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Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps
Active3 June 1948-2 May 1969
Country Canada
Branch Canadian Army
TypeCorps
Motto(s)In Hoc Signo Vinces (Latin, "In This Sign Conquer")
MarchOnward Christian Soldiers

The Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps (RCAChC) was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army. The Canadian Army Chaplain Corps was authorized on 22 March 1948. The Canadian Army Chaplain Corps was redesignated The Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps on 3 Jun 1948. [1] The Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps was succeeded by the Chaplain Branch (Canadian Forces) on May 2, 1969. The official march of the RCAChC was Onward Christian Soldiers.

Role

Chaplains share the hardships and perils that fall to other service personnel. "It is the business of the regimental padre to be the friend and adviser of the soldier, and the manner in which he has done this business has had more than a little to do with the maintenance of the morale of the army." [2] John Weir Foote, chaplain of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery under fire in helping care for the wounded and evacuate them from Dieppe.[3] Ten members of the Canadian Chaplains Service are buried in World War 2 Commonwealth War Graves Commission grave plots overseas (three buried in France, two in Belgium, two in the Netherlands, two in Italy and one in the UK).[4]

References

  1. ^ The Regiments and Corps of the Canadian Army (Queen's Printer, 1964)
  2. ^ http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/rep-rap/doc/cmhq/cmhq092.pdf C.P. Stacey 'General Activities, Canadian Army Overseas June 1942 - April 1943' 27 Apr 43
  3. ^ http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/rep-rap/doc/cmhq/cmhq092.pdf C.P. Stacey 'General Activities, Canadian Army Overseas June 1942 - April 1943' 27 Apr 43
  4. ^ "CWGC Search Results for CCS in WW2". www.cwgc.org. CWGC. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  • Padres in No Man's Land (Canadian Chaplains and the Great War), by Duff Willis Crerar, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1995.

This unit was allied with the following:

See also