The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum

We are currently in the process of updating this segment of our web site to include the activities of the regiment since the turn of the century. We will include activities at the regiment’s new home at Jefferson Armoury and the regiment’s continued participation in United Nations and NATO missions around the world. We will pay particular attention to the regiment’s participation in Afghanistan and our soldiers who have died in that conflict. In the interim we offer this photo narrative.

A major milestone in the life of The Loyal Edmonton Regiment was the move into a new home, Brigadier James Curry Jefferson Armoury, in early 2001. It is located at the SE corner of Edmonton's Municipal Airport on 109 Street and a three minute walk from Kingsway Garden Mall. It houses several other units The South Alberta Light Horse and 15 Field Ambulance and has modern facilities that meet their many and various needs for training, administration, and logistics.

In 2003 a construction project near Avion France, close to Vimy Ridge, dug up the remains of two Canadian soldiers, members of a large raid by the 49th Battalion against the Germans in June 1917. In late 2007 the identify one of them was confirmed as Private Herbert Peterson. Here we see nineteen serving members of the Regiment, a burial party who proceeded to France for his interment ceremonies 9 April 2008.

In 2006 a platoon of soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, the first of several deployments by formed groups and individuals. The duties of this first deployment consisted primarily in convoy escorts.

Above we see soldiers of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment preparing for a convoy escort mission in Afghanistan. Below, photos of escort missions taken by soldiers of the platoon.

On 5 August 2006 Master Corporal Ray Arndt (working on camp improvements in Kandahar) died while on a convoy escort mission in Afghanistan, the first combat casualty of The Loyal Edmonton Regiment since 1945.

Here we see the now familiar sight for Canadians, the “Ramp Ceremony” in Kandahar where assembled soldiers bid farewell to their fallen comrade.

The Repatriation Ceremony in Trenton where waiting dignitaries included the Honourable Gordon O'Connor, Minister of National Defence and General Rick Hillier, Chief of the Defence Staff.