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Princess Pats
DCHP-2 (Jul 2016)
n. — Military
a nickname for the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry regiment.
Type: 1. Origin — The nickname Princess Pats has been used since the formation of the regiment in 1914. Princess Pats is near-exclusive to Canada (see Chart 1). For more detail, see Patricias.
See also COD-2, s.v. "Princess Pats", which is marked "Cdn".
See also COD-2, s.v. "Princess Pats", which is marked "Cdn".
See: Patricias
Quotations
1914
SALISBURY PLAINS, Dec. 18..-- The Princess Pats completed today several weeks of hard training at Winchester and it is now recognized that they are fully efficient and ready for work in the trenches.
1922
He went over with reinforcements from McGill University to join the Princess Pats, and later was transferred to a machine corps.
1939
LONDON, Oct. 27--Hundreds of Canadians have written to Jenny Morris offering to come to England to help "The Mother of the Princess Pats" as a result of the story that she again is preparing to look after the Dominion's Expeditionary Force as she did in the last war.
Scores of women want to cook, nurse, entertain or keep house for the woman who acted the part of "mother" for the famed Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry when they came overseas in the last war.
1952
Enrolled on a four year course at U.B.C. is Lee
Jung Ok, Korean interpreter with the Princess Pats
for two years in Korea . . . Canadian army officers
who brought Lee to Canada are paying his tuition
fees.
1964
DAYLE GRAY JOINS THE PRINCESS PATS
Dayle Gray, the 17-year old son of Jim and Winnie Gray, is now a member of Canada's permanent army. Early last month he enlisted with the
famous Princess Pats Light Infantry, and for the next 17 weeks will be stationed in Edmonton
for basic training.
1982
And if the prospect of so general a collection is daunting, the collector could select a single Canadian regiment - the Princess Pats, for example - and by the time he had studied all the uniforms and all the accoutrements and all the honors applicable to all ranks from the time the regiment was founded, that might be more than enough for any single collector.
1997
As they prepared their defence, the Princess Pats were getting set for a series of small-scale reconnaissance attacks to test the defence of the reservists.
2009
Earlier this month, CBC-TV ran a documentary by American filmmaker Scott Kesterson about the Princess Pats in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban, back in 2006.
References
- COD-2
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