The Governor General's Horse Guards

Official Abbreviation: GGHG

Motto: Nulli Secundus (second to none) or Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (Evil to those who think it)

Battle Honors (28) (Battle honors in Bold are emblazoned on the Standard)

Early History (2)
North West Canada, 1885
South Africa, 1900

World War 1 (17)
Mount Sorrel
Somme, 1916
Flers-Courcelette
Ancre Heights
Arras, 1917-18
Vimy, 1917
Hill 70
Ypres, 1917
Passhendaele
Amiens
Scarpe, 1918
Hindenburg Line
Canal Du Nord
Cambrai, 1918
Valenciennes
Sambre
France and Flanders 1915-18

World War 2 (9)
Liri Valley
Melfa Crossing
Gothic Line
Lamone Crossing
Misano Ridge
Fosso Munio
Italy 1944-45
Ijsselmeer
North-west Europe 1945

Other Info: Only unit in Canada with a standard

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Today in Military History

September 7

1191:

Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.

1812:

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.

1864:

American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.

1901:

The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.

1939:

Introduction of Atlantic convoys

1940:

Beginning of the London blitz

1940:

World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.

1942:

While escorting convoy QS-22 up the St. Lawerence river to the open sea, the armed yacht HMCS RACOON is struck by a torpedo from U-165. There are no survivors.

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