21 New Soldiers Earn the RMR Cap Badge

Westmount, Quebec – 04 September 2026: During the annual collective training year kick-off weekend, The Royal Montreal Regiment’s newest soldiers reached an important milestone this summer, successfully completing their individual infantry training and earning the right to wear the RMR cap badge.

During a traditional badging ceremony on the parade square of the Regiment’s historic Westmount armoury, the Commanding Officer and Regimental Sergeant-Major personally presented the newly qualified soldiers with their regimental badges, formally welcoming them into the RMR.

For a new soldier, the ceremony represents far more than simply changing the badge on a beret. Until completing their infantry qualification, recruits wear the generic Canadian Armed Forces cap badge. The RMR badge is earned only after successfully completing the training required to become an infanteer.

The setting made this year’s ceremony particularly meaningful.

Standing behind the new soldiers was the great bronze Memorial Tablet that has overlooked the parade square since 1936. It commemorates the RMR’s service and sacrifice during the First World War and contains the Regiment’s Book of Remembrance.

More than 6,000 men served in the RMR during the First World War, with 1,193 making the ultimate sacrifice. Those soldiers would have worn the same distinctive RMR cap badge whose basic design has represented the Regiment since its formation in 1914.

More than a century later, 21 new soldiers stood before their memorial and were entrusted with that same symbol.

The size of this year’s graduating group is also an encouraging sign for the Regiment. Qualifying 21 new infantry soldiers in a single summer provides an important addition to the RMR’s trained strength and positions the unit well for continued growth.

The badge itself may be small, but what it represents is not: service, sacrifice, belonging and responsibility to those who wore it before.

Congratulations to the RMR’s newest qualified soldiers. Wear it proudly.

Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense.