
In the early days of World War I, Hamilton Gault funded the raising of a new regiment. Princess Patricia of Connaught, daughter of then Governor-General of Canada the Duke of Connaught, hand-made the camp colours and lent her name to the regiment: the Princess Patricia's Canadian...

Formed in peacetime, forged in wartime, and formidable at all times, the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2014. In The Patricias: A Century of Service , the Regiment's remarkable record of being "first in the field" of every...