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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: 4 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: 11
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Today in Military History
October 26
1813: Battle of Chateauguay
1917: VC won by Pte Thomas William Holmes, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium
1917: VC won by Capt Christopher Patrick John OKelly, 52nd Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium
1917: VC won by Lt Robert Shankland, DCM, 43rd Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium
1917: Second battle of PASSCHENDAELE, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 10 Nov 17)
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