Initially activated on 24 May 1940 as part of the CASF. Regiment embarked for the UK in November 1941 and later landed in Italy on 8 November 1943, where it fought as part of the 5th Armoured Brigade, 5th Canadian Armoured Division. February 1945, unit was transferred to the I Canadian Corps, as part of the Northwest Europe Campaign, where it fought until the end of the war.
