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The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada

Armorial Description
The Arabic numberal 2 encircled by a scroll inscribed QUEEN'S OWN RIFLES OF CANADA the scroll surmounted by the Crown. Joined to the base of the scroll and clasped with a bucklem, a ribbon scroll bearing the motto IN PACE PARATUS. The whole superimposed on a maple leaf.
Official Abbreviation: QOR of C
Motto: In Pace Paratus (In peace prepared)
Battle Honours (43)
Early History
NORTH-WEST CANADA, 1885
SOUTH AFRICA, 1898-1900

First World War
Ypres, 1915, '17
Arleux
Gravenstafel
Scarpe, 1917, '18
ST. JULIEN
HILL 70
Festubert, 1915
PASSCHENDAELE
MOUNT SORREL
AMIENS
SOMME, 1916
Drocourt-Queant
Pozieres
Hindenburg Line
FLEURS-COURCELETTE
CANAL DU NORD
Ancre Heights
PURSUIT TO MONS
Arras, 1917, '18
France and Flanders, 1915-1918
VIMY, 1917
Second World War
NORMANDY LANDING
Calais, 1944
LE MESNIL-PATRY
THE SCHELDT
CAEN
Breskens Pocket
Carpiquet
THE RHINELAND
BOURGUEBUS RIDGE
Waal Flats
Faubourg de Vaucelles
THEHOCHWALD
FALAISE
THE RHINE
Quesnay Wood
Emmerich-Hoch Elten
The Laison
Deventer
BOULOGNE, 1944
North-West Europe 1944-1945
Colonel-in-Chief: HRH Princess Alexandra
Authorized Marches:
Quick March: The Buffs
Double Past: Money Musk
Regimental Headquarters:
The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
Moss Park Armoury
130 Queen St E.
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 1R9

Order of Precedence: 3

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Visit the Official QOR Home Page.
Regimental History of the Queens Own Rifles.
Regimental Alliances of the Queens Own Rifles.
Tactics of the Queens Own Rifles.
The Queens Own Rifles Regimental Band.
The Queens Own Rifles on a jump.

Please direct any questions to John Wilmot ([email protected]).
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December 29

1943:
POINT 34 or TORRE MUCCHIA, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 4 Jan 44)

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