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|<b><div style="font-size: 80%">Colonel in Chief: His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, PC, KT, OM, GBE, QSO, CD</div></b>
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|<b><div style="font-size: 80%">Regimental Birthday: 21 December 1883</div></b>
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'''The Royal Canadian Regiment''' is Canada's senior [[Infantry]] regiment, and comprises three Regular Force infantry battalions as well as a 4th Battalion serving as part of the Land Force Reserve.
'''The Royal Canadian Regiment''' is Canada's senior [[Infantry]] regiment. The RCR consists of four battalions of infantry (three Regular Force and one Reserve Force).
==Motto==
==Motto==
''Pro Patria'' (Latin: For Country)  
''Pro Patria'' (Latin: For Country)  

Revision as of 21:49, 19 May 2006

The Royal Canadian Regiment
Regimental HQ: London, ON
Colonel in Chief: His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, PC, KT, OM, GBE, QSO, CD
Regimental Birthday: 21 December 1883

The Royal Canadian Regiment is Canada's senior Infantry regiment. The RCR consists of four battalions of infantry (three Regular Force and one Reserve Force).

Motto

Pro Patria (Latin: For Country)

Battle Honours (57)

Battle Honours presented in all caps are emblazoned on the Regimental Colour of each Battalion of the Regiment.

Early History

  • SASKATCHEWAN
  • NORTH-WEST CANADA, 1885
  • PAARDEBERG
  • SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900

World War I

  • YPRES, 1915, '17
  • Gravenstafel
  • St. Julien
  • Festubert, 1915
  • MOUNT SORREL
  • SOMME, 1916
  • Pozieres
  • Flers-Courcelette
  • ANCRE HEIGHTS
  • Arras, 1917, '18
  • VIMY, 1917
  • Arleux
  • Scarpe, 1917, '18
  • HILL 70
  • PASSCHENDAELE
  • AMIENS
  • Drocourt-Queant
  • HINDENBURG LINE
  • Canal du Nord
  • Cambrai, 1918
  • PURSUIT TO MONS
  • France and Flanders, 1915-1918

World War II

  • LANDING IN SICILY
  • Valguarnera
  • Agira
  • Adrano
  • Regalbuto
  • Sicily, 1943
  • Landing at Reggio
  • MOTTA MONTECORVINO
  • Campobasso
  • Torella
  • SAN LEONARDO
  • The Gully
  • ORTONA
  • Cassino II
  • Gustav Line
  • Liri Valley
  • HITLER LINE
  • GOTHIC LINE
  • LOMONE CROSSING
  • Misano Ridge
  • RIMINI LINE
  • San Martino-San Lorenzo
  • Pisciatello
  • Fosso Vecchio
  • ITALY, 1943-1945
  • Appeldoorn
  • NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1945

Korea

  • KOREA, 1951-1953

Source of Work

http://army.ca/inf/rcr.php