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The 24th Regiment Grey's Horse was a Canadian Militia
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History

The regiment was originally formed in
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, on April 2, 1908, and named in honour of
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. The regiment was headquartered in
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with squadrons in Woodstock and
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. Its lineage can be traced to 1798 with The Oxford Rifles. In 1914 it joined with the 22nd Regiment "The Oxford Rifles" to form A Company of the 1st Battalion, CEF. Headquarters moved
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, after World War I. In 1921 it was redesignated as the ''9th (Grey's) Horse''. On 1 February 1936, the 9th Grey's Horse were disbanded along with 13 other regiments as part of the 1936 Canadian Militia Reorganization.


Commanding officers

* Lieutenant-Colonel William Mahlon Davis (1857–1918) 1908–1910 * Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Richard Mayberry (1854–1934) 1910–1918 * Lieutenant-Colonel F. Ross 1918–? * Lieutenant-Colonel E. Pettigrew 1925–?


Notable members

*
Donald Matheson Sutherland Donald Matheson Sutherland, (December 3, 1879 – June 4, 1970) was a Canadian physician and politician. Biography He ran for public office, as a Laurier Liberal, in the 1917 federal election held as a result of the Conscription Crisis ...
, Minister of National Defence and former A Company Captain * George Herbert Bowlby, medical officer and captain


See also

*
List of regiments of cavalry of the Canadian Militia (1900–1920) This is a list of the named and numbered cavalry regiments of the Canadian Militia from around the start of 1900 until the Otter Commission The Otter Commission, or Otter Committee, was established after the First World War to tackle a problem crea ...


References

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