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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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48th Highlanders of Canada
Armorial Description
Within an annulus inscribed DILEAS GU BRATH, the numeral 48; above the numeral
and resting on a bar, a falcons head, couped; below the numeral a curved
scroll inscribed HIGHLANDERS.[B
Official Abbreviation: 48 Highrs
Motto: Dileas Gu Brath (Faithful forever)
Battle Honours (49)
Early History
First World War
YPRES, 1915,'17
Gravenstafel
St. Julien
FESTUBERT, 1915
MOUNT SORREL
SOMME, 1916
Pozieres
Thiepval
Ancre Heights
Arras, 1917,'18
VIMY, 1917
Arleux
Scarpe, 1917,'18
HILL 70
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
DROCOURT-QUEANT
Hindenburg Line
CANAL DU NORD
Pursuit to Mons
France and Flanders, 1915-1918
Second World War
LANDING IN SICILY
Valguarnera
ASSORO
Agira
Adrano
Regalbuto
Sicily, 1943
Landing at Reggio
CAMPOBASSO
Torella
San Leonardo
The Gully
ORTONA
San Nicola - San Tommaso
Cassino II
Gustav Line
LIRI VALLEY
HITLER LINE
GOTHIC LINE
LAMONE CROSSING
Misano Ridge
RIMINI LINE
San Martino - San Lorenzo
Fosso Vecchio
Italy, 1943-1945
APELDOORN
North-West Europe, 1945
Regimental Headquarters:
Moss Park Armoury
130 Queen Street East
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 1R9
Order of Precedence: 30
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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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