[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The Prince Edward Island Light Horse was first authorized on 1 June 1901, as an independent squadron in the Non-Permanent Active Militia component of the Canadian Mounted Rifles.
[5][6][7] On 15 March 1920, as a result of the Canadian Militia reforms following the Otter Commission, the regiment was simply redesignated as The Prince Edward Island Light Horse.
On 6 July 1944, the PEI Light Horse landed in France and served as part of the II Canadian Corps until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945.
[1][2] The youngest Canadian soldier to die in the Second World War, 14-year-old Robert Cyril Claude Brooks was a member of the 17th (Reserve) Armoured Regiment (Prince Edward Island Light Horse).
He was killed in a training accident near Coleman, Prince Edward Island, at approximately 7:30 pm on 23 September 1944, when a Universal Carrier was driven through a guard rail on a bridge, overturning into the water below.