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Ron McConnell
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Celebration of the 123 rd., Regimantal Birthday will take place at the WO & Sgt.s Mess Woseley Barracks, at 12:00 Hrs. on Thursday 21 Dec 2006. All Royals welcome, come and enjoy the commeradary, and Happy Birhday.
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Jim Hickson
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Hi Ron
I won't be able to make it but I would like to wish every Royal Happy 123rd.
Jim
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1961-Depot San Lenorado
1962-1st Bn RCR Ex Gagetown
1962-JR NCO Course Grad 19 Oct
1962-1965 Germany B-C-D-A Coy (Revecated Nov 64)
1965-1967 Sigs Pl Cyprus Prom CPL 'til xmas and C of Drums
1967-1973 Cpl, MCpl, Sgt, Sigs, D Coy
1973-1977 CFOCS Chilliwack Prom WO
1977-1982 UEO, Sigs, Pl WO RECCE, CSM B&A Coy,
1982-1984 SIT School
1984-1988 Career Manager (Prom CWO 1986)
1988-1990 RSM 1RCR
1991-1995 CWO Adm(Per) - C Of S
1995-1999 Base CWO Wainwright
1999-Retired
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Have a great Birthday Party all Royals, ranrad
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Mike Blais
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God willing, mac, I shall see you in Thursday.
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3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
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Fred Deadman
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Ron If every thing works out and honda dont ship on fri I will be there
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Ron
I will be on route to Florida that day. Please pass on a Happy Birthday to all members and wish every one a Merry Christmas for me.
BJ
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B.J. MacLean
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Mike Blais
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Ron If every thing works out and honda dont ship on fri I will be there
The 21st is in Thursday, Fred.
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
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Ron McConnell
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Good point Mike but maybe if they ship Friday he has to load on Thursday.
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Fred Deadman
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if they ship fri i have to be in kentucky on thursday night but the are not shipping the are shuting down after last shift on thur so i dont have to go out
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Wish I could get over there but I have a lunch meeting today 
Happy Regimental Birthday to all
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Geoff Halsey
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Mike Blais
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Happy regimental birthday, lads... and ladies...
Been one hell of a year for The RCR and, with success in battle, we have sustained the loss of many of our brothers in arms.
To the lads of the 1st, Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, for doing us old buggers proud in Afghanistan. let us raise our glasses to them on this day and, in reverence, remember all Royal Canadians who have fallen in the sevice of God, country, and Regiment!
Pro Patria!
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
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Aye Mike ,aye: to all of the Regiment may the best be yours, you have earned it, ranrad
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Don Marche
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Happy 123rd Birthday to all Royals.
Don
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1964-1965 RCR Depot North West Canada Pl,
A Coy 2 RCR London
1965-1968 B Coy 2 RCR Fort York Germany,
Promoted to Cpl 68.
1968-1973 D Coy 1 RCR London,
Promoted M\Cpl 69
1970 Cyprus
Promoted to Sgt 73
Took my release in Sep 1973 Rank Sgt
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Anniversary in Afghanistan
Canadians toast historic battle
By CP
MAS’UM GHAR, Afghanistan — Members of the Royal Canadian Regiment raised their glasses Thursday and marked their 123rd anniversary with a ceremonial toast against the backdrop of war.
“To my dear friends, to all present and to all those who departed and in honour of 123 years’ service for the country — to the regiment: Pro Patria (For Country),” said Col. Jim Vance, commander of 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, the senior officer at the ceremony.
“Pro Patria,” intoned the assembled troops as they raised glasses containing a mixture of dark rum, water and brown sugar.
The drink is a symbol of the Ortona Crossroads, a lengthy 1943 battle near Ortona, Italy, where the RCR was involved in a costly fight against the Germans. After the crossroads were finally secured, the regiment’s birthday was toasted with what was available at the time — dark rum, water and brown sugar.
With Canadian troops now engaged in NATO’s Operation Baaz Tsuka in Afghanistan, the parallels were obvious for the regiment, which is part of the combat team in the town of Howz-e Madad.
“We’re in grapefields instead of vineyards and fighting from compound to compound in built-up areas, Ortona being one of the bloodiest battles the Canadian army experienced to that day,” said Lt.-Col. Omer Lavoie, commander of the Canadian Battle Group, in his address to the troops.
“So 63 years later, a hell of a lot of similarities between what we did in Ortona and what we’re doing here in Afghanistan.”
Members of Charles Company Combat Team — consisting of two troops of Canadian Leopard tanks, a company of light armoured vehicles, three platoons of infantry along with Afghan troops and artillery support — remain just outside Howz-e Madad, on the north side of the Arghandab River.
“I don’t want to jinx it by any means but so far so good. In the first crucial 48 hours it has gone really well,” Lavoie told reporters.
“This is the first time we’ve projected that much combat power forward. We’re one piece of the operation but certainly from the enemy perspective I think we’re causing difficulties in their decision process and their command and control cycle.”
There had been no direct battles between Canadian troops and Taliban insurgents believed in the area south of the town. A foot patrol Thursday found a Taliban compound with about 35 people inside but withdrew because there were women and children present.
The bulk of the Taliban are believed located about four kilometres south of Howz-e Madad. The goal of the offensive is to rid the region of hardline Taliban members. Lavoie said they’ve been surrounded by NATO’s International Security Assistance Force — ISAF — and Afghan forces.
“We have Canadian forces, significant combat power, to the north. At the same time, we have a U.K. force to the west to strike and we have American and U.K. forces again to the south,” Lavoie said. “And hemming them in on the east is another Canadian combat team. So ISAF and Afghan forces are surrounding them 360 degrees.”
Afghan National Police took over a new checkpoint near the town Thursday. Canadians had prepared the ground for the checkpoint, and British engineers built on it.
“The whole operation has been unfolding exactly as per the plan. Afghan security forces are now forming an inner cordon in Howz-e Madad,” Lavoie said.
“Across the road in the desert, we’ve actually pushed our tank squadron and infantry elements forward to send a very strong message to the insurgents that we can play either way if they choose to make it go hard.”
A shura, or meeting, with village elders was held Thursday. Two containers of material aid was handed over to local residents, many of them displaced by months of fighting elsewhere in Afghanistan.
Canadian troops who has been battling the Taliban in the Panjwaii district for months have joined British, U.S. and Dutch forces in Operation Baaz Tsuka, which means Falcon Summit in the Pashto language.
It is Canada’s first offensive since the Canadian-led Operation Medusa in early September that reportedly killed hundreds of Taliban militants.
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
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Happy Birthday to us! 
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Soldiers in Kandahar raise paper cups to honour Royal Canadian Regiment
December 22, 2006
Oakland Ross
Staff reporter
PATROL BASE WILSON, Afghanistan–Canadian soldiers fighting in this beleaguered Central Asian land are officially on a dry mission – in other words, no alcohol allowed – but yesterday was a rare and evidently welcome exception.
"Happy birthday," said Warrant Officer Steve Konynenberg for the umpteenth time, as he served up yet another rum-based concoction known as the Ortona Toast, in celebration of yesterday's 123rd anniversary of the Royal Canadian Regiment, now based in Petawawa, Ont.
The RCR currently dominates the 1,200-strong combat arm of the nearly 2,500 Canadian military personnel stationed in Afghanistan, part of a NATO coalition battling Taliban insurgents.
Known as One RCR Battle Group, the battalion also includes members of at least two other regiments, the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), based in Edmonton, and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, Man.
Yesterday, they were all honorary members of the Ontario regiment, whose soldiers have seen action down through the years in a long list of international conflicts dating back to the Boer War.
One after another, soldiers stationed at this small forward-operating base, deep in Kandahar province, stepped into a makeshift communications room in a small stucco house and accepted a bracing midday libation, mixed and poured by Konynenberg, the camp's commandant.
They then strolled out onto the veranda to enjoy their rare allotment of seasonal cheer in the cool sunshine, while protected by a chest-high sandbag barrier. There, they were serenaded by automatic weapons fire rattling in the background as other Canadian soldiers fired practice rounds on a rifle range set up behind the base.
Adhering to a six-decades-old recipe, the Ortona cocktail consists of one ounce of dark rum, one ounce of water, and one teaspoon of brown sugar.
"The only thing different here is, we don't have the official white china mugs," said Konynenberg, who yesterday happened to be the sole bona fide member of the RCR among the more than 100 soldiers at this well-fortified Canadian base, located a two-hour convoy ride west of Kandahar city.
It didn't matter. Everyone was welcome to partake in the tradition.
Instead of china, brown paper cups had to serve for the occasion, although many soldiers promptly transferred their cocktails into containers of their own choosing before tossing them back – for most, it was their first alcoholic beverage since they arrived here last August.
The tradition of the Ortona Toast dates back to World War II, when officers of the RCR marked the regiment's 60th birthday with rum, water and brown sugar, just two days after suffering heavy casualties while out-battling German forces to take control of a strategic junction near Ortona, Italy, in December 1943.
On that occasion, the regimental brass served the beverage in white china mugs they had found in a partly demolished farmhouse nearby, and the drink is supposed to be served that way still.
But china crockery was in short supply here yesterday, although this did not stop the tradition from being celebrated in high spirits by Canadian soldiers drawn from across the land, some of whom had just returned safely to base from a highly risky, and very cold, overnight mission near the town of Howz-e-Madad, a half-hour's drive to the west.
Meanwhile, a team of soldiers here headed out with rum and brown sugar to convey the anniversary toast to their comrades stationed at other Canadian forward-operating bases scattered across the nearby countryside.
"Don't you know, liquor and guns don't mix?" observed one soldier at Patrol Base Wilson, just before he, too, imbibed his share of the toast.
Normally, he would be right. But, yesterday, in the war-weary highlands of southern Afghanistan, the two seemed to get along just fine.
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1RCR 1977-79 Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR 1979-82 M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR 1982-88 Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all!
Pro Patria
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