Unofficial history of the Australian
& New Zealand Armed
Services
Category:
Badges/Canada
Canadian Mounted Rifle
Regiment badges & other mounted units
Like the Australian Light
Horse and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles the Canadian Mounted Rifles
were Mounted Infantry units. Their training was to ride to the
battlefield, dismount and fight on foot. They were armed with infantry
weapons, not the lances and sabres of cavalry. Owing to the topography
and the style of fighting they were used as infantry in most cases and
were not mounted in France or Flanders
