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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Loyal Edmonton Regiment
Armorial Description
Between two maple leaves a windmill sail in saltire; superimposed upon
the centre of the sail a coyote's head affronts, surmounting the wolf's
head the red rose of Lancaster; below the coyote's head and resting on
a scroll inscribed THE LOYAL EDMONTON REGIMENT, the numerals 49; the
whole surmounted by the Crown.
Official Abbreviation: L Edmn R
Motto: Fears no Foe
Battle Honours (39)
First World War
MOUNT SORREL
PASSCHENDAELE
SOMME, 1916
AMIENS
FLERS-COURCELETTE
SCARPE, 1918
Ancre Heights
HINDENBURG LINE
Arras, 1917,'18
Canal du Nord
VIMY, 1917
PURSUIT TO MONS
HILL 70
France and Flanders, 1915-1918
Ypres, 1917
Second World War
LANDING IN SICILY
GOTHIC LINE
Piazza Amerina
Monteciccardo
Leonforte
Monte Luro
Agira
RIMINI LINE
ADRANO
PISCIATELLO
Troina Valley
San Fortunato
Sicily, 1943
SAVIO BRIDGEHEAD
Colle danchise
NAVICLIOCANAL
The Gully
Fosso Munio
ORTONA
Italy, 1943-1945
LIRI VALLEY
Apeldoorn
Hitler Line
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1945
Colonel-in-Chief:
The Right Honourable, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, CD, JP, DL, CBE
Order of Precedence: 38
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August 31
1864: American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia, defended by troops under Confederate General John Bell Hood.
1907: Great Britain, Russia and France form the Triple Entente alliance.
1916: Canadian casualties to date: 27,212 wounded, 8,644 dead, 2,005 missing
1939: Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an pretext to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II.
1939: The Royal Canadian Dental Corps is authorized
1992: Canada sends 750 troops to Somalia
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