List of Freedom of the City recipients (military)

The Freedom of the City, in military terms, is an honour conferred by a city council upon a military unit, which grants that unit the privilege of marching into the city "with drums beating, colours flying, and bayonets fixed". The honour is usually bestowed upon local regiments, in recognition of their dedicated service, and it is common for military units to periodically exercise their freedom by arranging a parade through the city.

Adelaide, South Australia

 * No. 24 Squadron RAAF

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

 * 2001: Royal Military College Duntroon, during that year's GMC 400.

Melbourne

 * Melbourne University Regiment

Sydney

 * Royal Australian Navy: March 14, 2009

Maitland, New South Wales

 * HMAS Maitland (ACPB 88): September 30, 2006

Port Stephens

 * 130 Signals Squadron

Airdrie, Alberta

 * Calgary Highlanders

Banff, Alberta

 * Rocky Mountain National Army Cadet Summer Training Centre (formerly BNACC)

Brampton, Ontario

 * The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) : 1969 & 1979

Canmore, Alberta

 * 878 Banff/Canmore Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron

Calgary, Alberta

 * 14 (Calgary) Service Battalion
 * Calgary Highlanders: 1956
 * King's Own Calgary Regiment
 * Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
 * HMCS Calgary
 * 4 Wing Cold Lake: May 11, 1999
 * HMCS Tecumseh

Cold Lake, Alberta

 * 4 Wing Cold Lake: August 27, 2004

Courtenay, British Columbia

 * HMCS Quadra: 2008

Dufferin County, Ontario

 * The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) : 1981

Durham, Ontario

 * The Ontario Regiment (RCAC): 1979

Edmonton, Alberta

 * The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry)
 * HMCS Nonsuch

Fredericton, New Brunswick

 * 1st Battalion, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment (Carleton and York): 1991
 * Royal Canadian Regiment: 2 June 1973

Gatineau, Quebec

 * Le Régiment de Hull (RCAC)

Halifax, Nova Scotia

 * 78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot annually since 1999.
 * Princess Louise Fusiliers
 * Maritime Forces Atlantic

Halton Hills, Ontario

 * The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) : 1987

Hamilton, Ontario

 * HMCS Star (Naval Reserve)
 * Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada
 * Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
 * 705 (Hamilton) Communication Squadron
 * 31 Signal Regiment: Saturday 21 April 2012

Huntingdon, Quebec

 * The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: 1998

Kelowna, British Columbia

 * British Columbia Dragoons: February 11, 1963

Kingston, Ontario

 * Royal Military College of Canada: 7 October 1976; May 6th, 2012; Sunday, May 5, 2013
 * HMCS Cataraqui
 * Princess of Wales' Own Regiment: May 4, 2013, 1963;
 * 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery: 1983; 1996 and May 26, 2012.

London, Ontario

 * The Royal Canadian Regiment (1st Battalion) 1980

Markham, Ontario

 * Button's Troop (The Governor General's Horse Guards): October 2, 2010
 * 351 Silver Star Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron: May 27, 2012
 * 883 Air Commodore Leonard Birchall Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron: May 27, 2012

Matane, Quebec

 * Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent: 1985

Medicine Hat, Alberta

 * South Alberta Light Horse: October 2005.

Milton, Ontario

 * The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) : 2009

Mont-Joli, Quebec

 * Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent: August 22, 2010

Montreal, Quebec

 * Canadian Grenadier Guards
 * Le Régiment de Maisonneuve
 * 3rd Field Engineer Regiment (34 CER)
 * The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)
 * The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: August 1992
 * 438 Tactical Helicopter Squadron
 * HMCS Montreal

Nanaimo, British Columbia

 * Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's): October 5, 1974; May 20, 1990, and September 16, 2012.
 * South Alberta Regiment: April 1941.

New Westminster, British Columbia

 * Royal Westminster Regiment, then called the Westminster Regiment: May 24, 1963
 * HMCS Discovery: October 3, 2010

Oakville, Ontario

 * The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) : 1984

Ormstown, Quebec

 * The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: 1997

Oshawa, Ontario

 * The Ontario Regiment (RCAC): 1966

Ottawa, Ontario

 * The Royal Canadian Regiment (1st Battalion): 1953
 * The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa: May 24, 1969
 * 26/28 Service Battalion: 2009
 * HMCS Carleton: October 16, 2010

Pitt Meadows, British Columbia

 * Royal Westminster Regiment: Sept. 22, 2012

Quebec City, Quebec

 * 5e Régiment d'artillerie légère du Canada: September 25, 2004
 * Royal 22e Régiment: 1975 and July 3, 2006.

Regina, Saskatchewan

 * Royal Regina Rifles: June 4, 2007.

Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec

 * Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent: 1991

Richmond, British Columbia

 * 12 (Vancouver) Service Company, then called 12 Service Battalion: April 17, 1993

Rimouski, Quebec

 * Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent: 1984

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec

 * Royal Military College Saint-Jean: October 1, 1977; 1992; 1995; April 22, 2012

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

 * HMCS Unicorn

Sault-Ste. Marie, Ontario

 * 31 Service Battalion: 26 May 2012 and September 26, 1987.
 * 49th (Sault Ste Marie) Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery: 26 May 2012 and July 1, 1967

Sayabec, Quebec

 * Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent

St. Albert, Alberta

 * Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians): June 11, 2011.

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

 * Royal Newfoundland Regiment: July 1, 1963
 * Royal Canadian Regiment: June 19, 2005

Timmins, Ontario

 * Algonquin Regiment: Sept 22, 2012, and Sept 22, 1977

Toronto, Ontario

 * 48th Highlanders of Canada
 * The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada: 1948
 * The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own)
 * HMCS Toronto
 * Toronto Squadron of the 32 Signals Regiment: 1978 and 1987

Trenton, Ontario

 * Trenton Air Cadet Summer Training Centre

Uxbridge, Ontario

 * UNICEF Team Canada: 2008

Vancouver, British Columbia

 * 15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: June 12, 1977
 * 12 (Vancouver) Field Ambulance: 2007
 * British Columbia Regiment: 1983 October 13, 2008
 * Seaforth Highlanders of Canada: April 16, 2011

Vegreville, Alberta

 * 41 Combat Engineer Regiment (from predecessor unit)

Verdun, Quebec

 * The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada: fall 1999

Vernon, British Columbia

 * Vernon Army Cadet Summer Training Centre: August 4, 1979
 * British Columbia Dragoons: 10 May 2008

Victoria, British Columbia

 * Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (3rd Battalion): June 15, 1974
 * HMCS Malahat
 * Maritime Forces Pacific
 * 5th (British Columbia) Field Artillery Regiment, RCA: November 4, 1979
 * The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's): June 6, 1964
 * Major-General, The Honourable George Randolph Pearkes, V.C.
 * Royal Roads Military College

Waterloo, Ontario

 * 31 Combat Engineer Regiment

Winnipeg, Manitoba

 * Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (2nd Battalion): 1989; October 13, 1995
 * HMCS Chippawa: May 5, 1985
 * Royal Winnipeg Rifles: June 4, 1983
 * CFB Winnipeg: October 1992

Bulawayo

 * Rhodesian African Rifles: September 5, 1964
 * Royal Rhodesia Regiment: September 5, 1964

Salisbury

 * Rhodesia Regiment: July 1968
 * Rhodesian Air Force: May 25, 1971
 * Rhodesian Light Infantry: July 25, 1975

Marandellas

 * 1st Field Regiment, Rhodesia Artillery (Southern Rhodesia Artillery): Saturday, 17 May 1975

Aberdeen

 * Royal Regiment of Scotland

Bangor

 * The Royal Welsh: July 23, 2011

Bath

 * 21st Signal Regiment (Air Support): November 2011

Birmingham

 * Grenadier Guards
 * Coldstream Guards
 * Scots Guards
 * Welsh Guards
 * Irish Guards
 * The Royal British Legion

Bradford

 * The Yorkshire Regiment: June 25, 2010

Brighton and Hove

 * Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment: 1996

Bristol

 * 266 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Battery, Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
 * 57 (City and County of Bristol) Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals (Volunteers)

Bury St. Edmunds
HMS Vengeance

Basildon

 * The Royal Anglian Regiment: June 9, 2011

Canterbury

 * The Royal Regiment of Scotland: November 27, 2008

Chester

 * 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh
 * HMS Albion

Chichester

 * Royal Sussex Regiment and its respective successors, the Queen's Royal Regiment and the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: June 30, 1951
 * RAF Tangmere, a Royal Air Force station which played a crucial role in the Battle of Britain: 1960

Corby

 * Royal Anglian Regiment: May 3, 2012

Crewe and Nantwich

 * 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire)

Derby

 * The Royal Navy Submarine Service

Ely

 * The Royal Anglian Regiment: June 11, 2011

Epsom

 * The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: 2010

Exeter

 * The Coldstream Guards

Glasgow

 * The Highland Light Infantry

Gloucester

 * The Rifles

Gravesend

 * The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment

Harlow

 * Essex Yeomanry: April 25, 2009

Ipswich

 * HMS Quorn: February 6, 2011
 * The Royal Anglian Regiment: September 2011

Islington

 * The Honourable Artillery Company: October 2009

Kingston upon Thames

 * The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment
 * 256 (City of London) Field Hospital (Volunteers): March 2009

Knowsley

 * The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment

Lancaster

 * King's Own Royal Regiment: August 29, 1953

Leicester

 * 9th/12th Royal Lancers

Lisburn

 * The Royal Irish Regiment: May 2011

Lincoln

 * The Grenadier Guards: May 8, 2008

City of Liverpool

 * Duke of Lancaster's Regiment soldiers, returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, were awarded freedom of the city in recognition of their bravery and sacrifice: September 14, 2008

City of London

 * HMS Westminster: December 11, 2005
 * The Royal Marines: 1924
 * The Honourable Artillery Company: 1924
 * The Grenadier Guards: October 1915
 * City of London Imperial Volunteer Corps: 12 January 1901
 * The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment): 1672
 * The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: October 13, 1924
 * Parachute Regiment
 * 600 (City of London) Squadron RAuxAF

Loughborough

 * The Royal Anglian Regiment: June 19, 2007

Manchester

 * 207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Volunteers): October 2011

City of Newport

 * Corps of the South Wales Borderers (24th Foot)
 * Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
 * 104th Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers)
 * Royal Welch Fusiliers
 * British Merchant Navy Association
 * HMS Severn (P282)

Nottingham

 * 73rd Engineer Regiment (Volunteers)
 * East Midlands Universities Air Squadron: June 2011

Peterborough

 * 158 (Royal Anglian) Transport Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps (Volunteers)

Portsmouth

 * Portsmouth Command of the Royal Navy: 1965
 * HMS King Alfred: 2003
 * HMS Endurance: 2007
 * The Royal Marines: 1959

Plymouth

 * The Royal Naval Reserve
 * The Merchant Navy: March 22, 2009
 * The Rifles: September 25, 2010

Preston

 * The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire): August 7, 1952 (This was subsequently transferred to:)
 * The Queen's Lancashire Regiment: September 9, 1972
 * The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: July 1, 2006

Ribble Valley

 * Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: March 10, 2011

Richmond

 * 1 Close Support Battalion Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers

Ripon

 * The Royal Engineers: July 27, 1949

Romsey

 * The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment inherited the Freedom from the Royal Hampshire Regiment as a result of the 1992 Options for Change merger with the Queen's Regiment.

St Edmundsbury, East Anglia

 * The 3 Regiment Army Air Corps (Wattisham): June 22, 2010

Salford

 * Lancashire Fusiliers: September 3, 1947

Salisbury

 * The Rifles: November 20, 2010

Stockport

 * The Mercian Regiment

Sunderland

 * Officers of HMS Ocean: July 26, 2004
 * The Rifles: September 10, 2010

Swansea

 * 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards: 2009

Tameside

 * The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: April 17, 2007

Telford

 * The Rifles: May 29, 2010

Tonbridge

 * The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

Wakefield

 * The Yorkshire Regiment: March 13, 2010
 * The Rifles: September 11, 2010

Wigston

 * B (Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry) Squadron, Royal Yeomanry: April 17, 2012

Winchester

 * Winchester Army Training Regiment: April 17, 2004

Wolverhampton

 * Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering, DCAE Cosford
 * The Staffordshire Regiment
 * 210 (Staffordshire) Battery 106th (Yeomanry) Regiment Royal Artillery
 * West Midlands Fire Service

Worthing

 * The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment: July 4, 1949

Wrexham

 * 101 Force Support Battalion, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Yeovil

 * RNAS Yeovilton: 1962

York

 * The Royal Dragoon Guards: April 24, 1999