15th Field Regiment, RCA

15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA
Badge of the Royal Canadian Artillery
Active	1920–present
Country	Canada
Branch	Canadian Army
Type	Field artillery
Part of	39 Canadian Brigade Group
Garrison/HQ	Bessborough Armoury, Vancouver, British Columbia
Motto(s)	Ubique (Everywhere) and Quo fas et gloria ducunt (Whither right and glory lead)
March	Slow march: "Royal Artillery Slow March" Quick march: "British Grenadiers" Trot past: "Keel Row"
Abbreviation	15 Fd Regt

15th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA, is a Primary Reserve Royal Canadian Artillery (RCA) regiment based in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the Bessborough Armoury. 15th Field Regiment is part of the 39 Canadian Brigade Group of 3rd Canadian Division.

The regiment was created in 1920 as one of the recommendations of the Otter Committee. In World War II it manned the coastal defence artillery guns that protected the Port of Vancouver. After the war the regiment reverted to field artillery. While the regiment has not deployed overseas, members have participated in Canadian Forces missions overseas and in Canada.

This unit is not the same 15th Field Artillery Regiment (4th Canadian Armoured Division) that served in the Second World War.

The end of World War I saw thousands of Canadians returning home from overseas service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Europe. In January 1918 Major General William Otter recommended to the Government of Canada that a perfect situation existed in which to reorganize the active militia. This suggestion lead to the creation of the Committee of Militia Reorganization in 1919. As Major General Otter was the president of this committee it was commonly known as the Otter Committee.

On 16 December 1919, at the request of the Otter Committee, a group of 11 artillery officers, recently returned from Europe, met to discuss the creation of a militia artillery regiment in Vancouver. The results of this meeting were worked into the recommendations of the Otter Committee and on 2 February 1920 the Government of Canada authorized the creation of the 15th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery.