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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Royal New Brunswick Regiment
Armorial Description
Superimposed on the centre of a circular scroll bearing the designation ROYAL
NEW BRUNSWICK REGIMENT, the arms of the Province of New Brunswick (i.e.: or,
an ancient galley, or lymphad, the sails unfurled, oars in action on the sea
all proper, the flags and pennant gules; on a chief gules; a lion passant
guardant, or) over the base of the circular scroll a second scroll inscribed
with the motto SPEM REDUXIT; the whole surmounted by the Crown.
Official Abbreviation: RNBR
Motto: Spem Reduxit (Hope Restored)
Battle Honours (70)
Early History
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900, 1902
First World War
YPRES, 1915,'17
Scarpe, 1917,'18
FESTUBERT, 1915
HILL 70
Mount Sorrel
PASSCHENDAELE
SOMME, 1916,'18
AMIENS
Flers-Courcelette
Drocourt-Queant
Thiepval
HINDENBURG LINE
Ancre Heights
Canal du Nord
Ancre, 1916
CAMBRAI, 1918
ARRAS, 1917,'18
Valenciennes
VIMY, 1917
France and Flanders, 1915-18
Arleux
Second World War
LANDING IN SICILY
Falaise
Valguarnera
Falaise Road
Sicily, 1943
Quesnay Wood
LANDING AT REGGIO
The Laison
Gambatesa
Chambois
The Sangro
The Seine, 1944
The Gully
Moerbrugge
POINT 59
BOULOGNE, 1944
Cassino II
Calais, 1944
Gustav Line
Moerkerke
Liri Valley
THE SCHELDT
HITLER LINE
Breskens Pocket
Melfa Crossing
The Lower Maas
Gothic Line
Kepelsche Veer
Lamone Crossing
The Rhineland
Rimini Line
Waal Flats
San Fortunato
The Hockwald
NAVIGLIO CANAL
THE RHINE
Italy, 1943-45
Emmerich - Hoch Elten
NORMANDY LANDING
Zutphen
Caen
Apeldoorn
CARPIQUET
Kusten Canal
Bourguebus Ridge
Bad Zwischenahn
Faubourg de Vaucelles
North-West Europe, 1944-45
Order of Precedence: 23
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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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