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Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke



Armorial Description

A grenade with the Crown superimposed upon the ball within an annulus inscribed LES FUSILIERS DE SHERBROOKE, surmounted by a beaver and super- imposed upon a maple leaf; the whole resting on a scroll inscribed DROIT AU BUT.


Official Abbreviation: Fus de Sher

Motto: Droit au But (To the point)


Battle Honours (23)

First World War

    AMIENS
Second World War
    D'EBARQUEMENT EN NORMANDIE
    Anvers-Canal de Tumhout
    AUTHIE
    L'ESCAUT
    CAEN
    Meuse inferieure
    L'Ome
    LA RHTNANIE
    COTE DE BOURGUEBUS
    Le Hochwald
    Faubourg de Vaucelles
    XANTEN
    Saint-Andre-sure
    LE RHIN
    FALAISE
    Emmerich-Hoch Elton
    Route de la Falaise
    ZUTPHEN
    Clair Tizon
    Deventer
    La Laison
    Nord-Ouest de l'Europe, 1944-1945
Colonel-in-Chief: None

Authorized Marches:
Quick March: The Queen City

Location of Sub Units: Sherbrooke and Granby, Quebec

Alliances:

    The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
    Topshom Barracks
    Exeter, England

Order of Precedence: 42
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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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