RMR Badging Ceremony Held in Potton

Westmount, Quebec – 18 September 2024: On a beautiful late summer day held on the Honorary Colonel’s property in Potton where they had recently completed a forced march in Full Fighting Order (FFO), The Royal Montreal Regiment held their traditional badging ceremony on Sunday 15 September 2024 where 15 soldiers were officially badged into the Regiment and promoted to the rank of Private. The Honorary Colonel David Bensadoun and the Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Isabelle Racicot, individually replaced each soldier’s generic Infantry Corps cap badge with the RMR’s cap badge, welcoming each soldier to the regimental family.

The Commanding Officer (CO), Lieutenant-Colonel Maciej Jonasz, accompanied by the Regimental Sergeant-Major, Chief Warrant Officer James Quesnel, subsequently promoted each Recruit to the rank of Private thus completing the journey of each person from civilian to trained Infantry soldier. The blank rank badges were replaced with the one hook of a trained Private.

Once the badging and promotions were complete, the CO gave orders for the newly badged soldiers to march from Depot Company (the recruit company) to join the ranks of ‘Bravo’ Company, the RMR’s operational rifle platoon. A casual observer could be forgiven for thinking  that the backs were a bit straighter and the arms swung a bit higher on the soldiers who now proudly wore their regiment’s cap badge for the very first time.

Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense.