[Australia]: Message to the Canadian Army [SEC=OFFICIAL:Sensitive]

[Owen]

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CHIEF OF ARMY​

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20 October 2008

Dear Commander of the Canadian Army, There is a long standing tradition that army regiments are to maintain alliances with army regiments in other nations to where the armed forces swear allegiance to and maintain Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as their Head of State and Commander-in-Chief. I am proposing a series of regimental alliances between Australian Army regiments and Canadian Army regiments to enhance cross-army engagement and cooperation and to maintain the many traditions we have mutually inherited from the British Army. As such, the proposal is to align the following Australian Army regiments with the following Canadian Army regiments: Royal Australian Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Royal Canadian Regiment Royal New South Wales Regiment: Royal Newfoundland Regiment Royal Victoria Regiment: The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment Royal Queensland Regiment: The Lincoln and Welland Regiment Royal Western Australia Regiment: The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Own) Royal South Australia Regiment: The Royal Regiment of Canada Royal Tasmania Regiment: 48th Highlanders of Canada 2nd Commando Regiment: Canadian Special Operations Regiment 1st Armoured Regiment: Royal Canadian Dragoons 2nd Cavalry Regiment: Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment: 12e Régiment blindé du Canada 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry): The Governor General's Horse Guards 1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers: The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) 12th/16th Hunter River Lancers: The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse: 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) 10th Light Horse Regiment: 1st Hussars 3rd/9th Light Horse (South Australian Mounted Rifles): Sherbrooke Hussars Yours sincerely, Lieutenant General David Morrison.

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Nathan