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The Princess Louise Fusiliers



Armorial Description

A grenade with ninteen-pointed flame; on the ball of the grenade an annulus inscribed PRINCESS LOUISE FUSILIERS; on the lower curve, two maple leaves with stems crossed; within the annulus the coronet of a princess.


Official Abbreviation: PLF

Motto: Fideliter (Faithfully)


Battle Honours (16)

Early History

    NORTH-WEST CANADA 1885
    SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900
First World War
    SOMME, 1916
    YPRES, 1917
    AMIENS
    ARRAS, 1917
    HILL 70
Second World War
    Arnhem 1945 LIRI VALLEY
    MISANO RIDGE
    MELFA CROSSING
    ITALY, 1944-1945
    GOTHIC LINE
    CORIANO
    LAMONE CROSSING
    DELFZIJL POCKET
    NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1945

Order of Precedence: 22
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Today in Military History

August 30



1813:

Battle of Kulm - French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.


1862:

Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.


1914:

Battle of Tannenberg


1922:

Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")


1941:

Siege of Leningrad begins.


1944:

MONTECCHIO, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 31 Aug 44)


1945:

British naval fore arrives in Hong Kong to reoccupy colony


1945:

Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.




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