The Calgary Highlanders
 
 Armorial Description
Upon sprays of thistle, a St Andrew's Cross, on the centre of the Cross
a beaver on a log encircled by a wreath of maple leaves; below the
beaver, on the wreath a scrou emblazoned with thistles, placed above a
scrou inscribed with the unit designation CALGARY HIGHLANDERS; above the
wreath upon the upper arms of the Cross a scroll emblazoned with
thistles and on the centre, between the upper arms of the Cross, the
Crown.
  
Official Abbreviation: Calg Highrs
Motto: Airaghardt (Onward)  
Battle Honours (42)
First World War 
YPRES, 1915,'17
 ARLEUX
 Gravenstafel
 HILL 70
 ST. JULIEN
 PASSCHENDAELE
 Festubert, 1915
 AMIENS
 Mount Sorrel
 Scarpe,1918
 SOMME, 1916
 DROCOURT-QUTANT
 Thiepval
 HINDENBURG LINE
 Ancre Heights
 Canal du Nord
 Arras, 1917,'18
 Pursuit to Mons
 VIMY, 1917
 France and Flanders, 1915-1918
 
Second World War
BOURGUTBUS RIDGE
 Woensdrecht
 Faubourg de'Vaucelles
 South Beveland
 VERRITRES RIDGE -- TILLY-LA-CAMPAGNE
 WALCHEREN CAUSEWAY
 THE RHINELAND
 FALAISE
 The Reichswald
 Falaise Road
 THE HOCHWALD
 Clair Tizon
 Xanten
 Foret de la Londe
 The Rhine
 DUNKIRK, 1944
 GRONINGEN
 Wyneghem
 Oldenburg
 ANTWERP-TURNHOUTCANAL
 North-West Europe, 1944-1945
THESCHELDT
 
Colonel-in-Chief: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
Authorized Marches: 
Quick March: The Highland Laddie and All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border 
Regimental Headquarters: 
Mewata Armoury 
801, 11 th Street SW 
Calgary, Alberta 
T2P 2C4 
  
Order of Precedence: 41
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