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41 Service Battalion
41e Bataillon des services
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Active1910–present
CountryCanada
BranchCanadian Army
TypeCombat service support
Size3 companies
Part of41 Canadian Brigade Group, 3rd Canadian Division
Garrison/HQCalgary, Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Motto(s)Latin: Vitæ vena in certamine proelii, lit. 'the lifeblood in battle'[1]
Websitearmy-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/41-service-battalion/index.page Edit this at Wikidata
Commanders
Commanding officerLieutenant-Colonel Graham Longhurst[1]
Regimental sergeant majorChief Warrant Officer Ted Coderre[1]
Insignia
Camp Flag

41 Service Battalion (41 Svc Bn) is a Canadian Army Primary Reserve combat service support unit with three companies located at Currie Armoury in Calgary and at Debney Armoury in Edmonton, Alberta. The battalion is under the command of 41 Canadian Brigade Group, itself part of the 3rd Canadian Division, one of four region-based Canadian Army divisions. The battalion is made up of officers and soldiers primarily from the Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Canadian Logistics Service and provides transport, maintenance, supply, food services and administrative support to 41 Canadian Brigade Group and other military elements in Alberta.

Subunits

History

The history of 41 Service Battalion begins with the formation of No. 14 Company, Canadian Army Service Corps (CASC) in Calgary on April 1, 1910. In Edmonton, No. 22 Company, CASC, was formed in 1922. The battalion's lineage is complicated by the move from a horse-based military at its origins to the modern mechanized force of today. This has caused the formation of new corps such as the Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers (RCEME) to maintain the complex equipment as well as the amalgamation of other corps such as the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps under the combined Logistics title. Through these changes, the battalion has served in communities across the province in peacetime as well as in almost every conflict including the First World War, the Second World War, peacekeeping and the conflict in Afghanistan. The largest change to the organization was the formation of the experimental service battalion concept in the mid-1960s which saw various corps being brought together in one organization including the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (RCASC), the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps (RCOC), the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps, the Royal Canadian Postal Corps and the Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers (RCEME). Other corps, including Military Police and Medical have been included for short periods of time. The unification of the Canadian Armed Forces brought greater change with the merging of the RCASC and RCOC under the Logistics Branch. No matter the construct of the battalion, the goal has always been to provide combat service support to the units that it is tasked with sustaining during war, peace and during domestic emergencies. In 2017, 41 Service Battalion became associated the Clan McNaughton Pipes and Drums after many years of parading together at events in Edmonton.

Cadet corps

Active

Disbanded

Re-badged

Leadership

Commanding officers:

Regimental Sergeants Major:

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The white peaks refer to the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, the province in which the unit is located. The wild rose is the provincial flower. The ears of wheat represent the prairie region of the province. The wagon was a vehicle used for combat service support during the early history of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps.

Notable personalities

References

  1. ^ a b c "41 Service Battalion". Canadian Army official website. Retrieved 18 October 2016.

External links

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