The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry

Armorial Description

Superimposed upon a maple leaf, a bugle with strings surmounted by the Crown; within the strings, the letters RHLI, below the bugle and upon the base of the maple leaf two scrolls, the uppermost inscribed WENTWORTH REGIMENT and the lower one bearing the motto SEMPER PARATUS.

Official Abbreviation: RHLI

Motto: Semper Paratus (Always ready)

Battle Honours (39)

Early History

SOUTH AFRICA, 1900 First World War

Second World War

Order of Precedence: 7

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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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