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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Royal Canadian Regiment
Armorial Description
An eight-pointed diamond cut star; upon the star a raised circle surmounted
by the Crown; within the raised circle, the block letters VRI, the Imperial
Cypher of Queen Victoria.
Official Abbreviation: The RCR
Motto: Pro Patria (For Country)
Battle Honours (54)
Early History
SASKATCHEWAN
NORTH-WEST CANADA, 1885
PAARDEBERG
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900
First World War
YPRES, 1915, '17
Gravenstafel
St. Julien
Festubert, 1915
MOUNT SORREL
SOMME, 1916
Pozieres
Flers-Courcelette
ANCRE HEIGHTS
Arras, 1917, '18
VIMY, 1917
Arleux
Scarpe, 1917, 1918
HILL 70
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
Drocourt-Queant
HINDENBURG LINE
Canal du Nord
Cambrai, 1918
PURSUIT TO MONS
France and Flanders, 1915-1918
Second World War
LANDING IN SICILY
Valguarnera
Agira
Adrano
Regalbuto
Sicily, 1943
Landing at Reggio
MOTTA MONTECORVINO
Campobasso
Torella
SAN LEONARDO
The Gully
ORTONA
Cassino II
Guatav Line
Liri Valley
HITLER LINE
GOTHIC LINE
LOMONE CROSSING
Misano Ridge
RIMINI LINE
San Martino-San Lorenzo
Pisciatello
Fosso Vecchio
ITALY, 1943-1945
Appeldoorn
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1945
Korea
Order of Precedence: 1
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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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