THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS
DESCRIPTION

UPON SPRAYS OF THISTLE, A ST. ANDREW'S CROSS, ON THE
CENTRE OF THE CROSS A BEAVER ON A LOG ENCIRCLED BY A
WREATH OF MAPLE LEAVES; BELOW THE BEAVER, ON A WREATH A
SCROLL EMBLAZONED WITH THISTLES, PLACED ABOVE A SCROLL
INSCRIBED WITH THE UNIT DESIGNATION "CALGABY
HIGHLANDERS"; ABOVE THE WREATH UPON THE UPPER
ARMS OF THE CROSS A SCROLL EMBLAZONED WITH THISTLES-AND
ON THE CENTRE. BETWEEN THE UPPER ARMS OF THE CROSS THE
CROWN.

1.20 GENERAL

THE REGIMENT TRACES ITS ORIGINS TO A REGIMENT WHICH WAS
FORMED ON 01 APRIL 1910, WHEN GENERAL ORDER No. 38/10 GAVE
AUTHORITY TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL W.C.G. ARMSTRONG TO RAISE AN
INFANTRY BATTALION IN CALGARY. THE BATTALION WAS GRANTED THE
NUMBER 103 AND WAS UNIFORMED AND EQUIPPED AS A RIFLE REGIMENT AND
DESIGNATED THE 103rd REGIMENT (CALGARY RIFLES).

THE RAISING OF THE REGIMENT WAS A CULMINATION OF A NUMBER
OF YEARS OF WORK ON THE PART OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL ARMSTRONG AND
THE CITIZENS OF CALGARY WHO, TWICE BEFORE IN 1902 AND IN 1904, HAD
SOUGHT AUTHORITY TO RAISE A REGIMENT. FINALLY, IN 1920, APPROVAL
WAS GIVEN AND THEY CARRIED ON AS A REGIMENT OF THE CANADIAN
MILITIA UNTIL 1921.

ON 04 AUGUST 1914, WAR WAS DECLARED WITH GERMANY AND CANADA, IN
SUPPORT OF GREAT BRITAIN, DECIDED TO MOBILIZE AN EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE OF ONE DIVISION AND SUPPORTING UNITS. HOWEVER, INSTEAD OF
USING PLANS TO MOBILIZE EXISTING MILITIA REGIMENTS, THE MINISTER
OF MILITIA, LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR SAM HUGHES KCB, IMPLEMENTED HIS
OWN PLAN TO RAISE NUMBERED BATTALIONS, THUS IT WAS THAT THE
103rd REGIMENT, INSTEAD OF GOING TO WAR AS A REGIMENT, WAS CALLED
UPON TO PROVIDE THE NEWLY FORMED 10th BATTALION WITH FIVE
COMPANIES OF INFANTRY; THE 106th REGIMENT (WINNIPEG LIGHT
INFANTRY) PROVIDED THE OTHER THREE OF THE BATTALION'S EIGHT
COMPANIES. THE 10th BATTALION, CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, WAS
COMMANDED BY LIEUTENANT COLONEL R.L. BOYLE OF THE 15th LIGHT HORSE
THE 103rd REGIMENT CONTINUED TO EXIST AS A HOME-SERVICE BATTALION
IN A RECRUITING AND TRAINING ROLE, RECRUITING FOR THE 50th, 82nd,
89th AND 137th BATTALION, CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

THE PROVISIONAL 10th BATTALION (WITCH LATER BECAME THE 10th
BATTALION, CEF) WAS RAISED AND RECEIVED ITS INITIAL TRAINING AT
VALCARTIER CAMP IN QUEBEC ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE CANADIAN
EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. INITIALLY, THEY WERE ASSIGNED TO THE 4th
BRIGADE, TOGETHER WITH THE 9th, llth AND 12th BATTALIONS. IN
OCTOBER 1914, THE 10th BATTALION LEFT FOR ENGLAND IN THE FIRST
CONTINGENT. THEY ARRIVED ON 14 OCTOBER 1914 AND WERE SENT TO A
CONCENTRATION AREA ON THE SALISBURY PLAIN. ON 15 DECEMBER 1914,
THEY WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE 2nd BRIGADE TO REPLACE THE 6th
BATTALION (THEIR BRIGADE MATES WERE THE 5th, 7th AND 8th
BATTALIONS). ON 22 FEBRUARY 1915, THE 10th WAS SENT ALONG WITH THE
REST OF THE 1st DIVISION TO FRANCE AND PROCEEDED TO OCCUPY THE
PLOEGSTEERT SECTOR. FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, THE BATTALION FOUGHT
IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS, FORMING PART OF THE OCCUPATION FORCES AT
THE END OF THE WAR. THEY TOOK PART IN MOST OF THE BATTLES OF THE
CANADIAN CORPS, INCLUDING THE BATTLE OF VIMY RIDGE AND EARNED TWO
VICTORIA CROSSES, 19 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDERS, 64 MILITARY
CROSSES, 60 DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDALS, 287 MILITARY MEDALS, 6
MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDALS, 18 FOREIGN DECORATIONS AND 819
MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES.

ON 22 APRIL 1915, THE GERMANS ATTACKED THE FRENCH COLONIAL
TROOPS IN THE ST. JULIEN AREA WITH POISON GAS AND CAUSED THEM TO
RETREAT IN DISORDER. THE 10th BATTALION, WHICH WAS IN DIVISIONAL
RESERVE, AND THE 16th BATTALION OF THE 3rd BRIGADE, WERE ORDERED
TO COUNTER-ATTACK. DESPITE THE GAS, THE TWO BATTALIONS
COUNTER-ATTACKED THE GERMANS AND SUCCEEDED IN STABILIZING THE
LINE, ALTHOUGH AT THE COST OF HEAVY CASUALTIES, INCLUDING THE
COMMANDING OFFICER, LIEUTENANT COLONEL BOYLE, WHO WAS WOUNDED
WHILE WITH THE FIRST WAVE. HE WAS KILLED BY SHELL FIRE IN THE
FIELD DRESSING STATION SHORTLY AFTER. OF THE BATTLE, WHICH HAD
BEEN THE FIRST MAJOR USE OF GAS ON THE WESTERN FRONT, MARSHAL
FOCH, THE ALLIED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, SAID AFTER THE ARMISTICE IN
1919;.

"I THINK THE FINEST ACT OF THE WAR WAS THE COUNTER
ATTACK OF THE 10th AND 16th BATTALIONS OF THE
CANADIANS AFTER THEIR DIVISIONS HAD BEEN SO FRIGHTFULLY
PUNISHED BY THE GERMAN GAS. THIS COUNTER-ATTACK SO
AMAZED THE ENEMY - WHO COUNTED ON THE GAS DEMORALIZING
OR KILLING THE CANADIANS - THAT THEY SLOWED DOWN THEIR
ADVANCE TO THE COAST AND CALAIS WAS SAVED".

THE BATTLE IS NOW COMMEMORATED BY THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS
AND BY THE CANADIAN SCOTTISH REGIMENT (PRINCESS MARY'S), WHO
PERPETUATE THE 16th BATTALION, CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AS
"ST. JULIEN 22nd OF APRIL 1915" WITH "THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE
22nd OF APRIL" WHICH IS THE TOAST DRUNK AT THE ST. JULIEN
ANNIVERSARY DINNER WITH "HIGHLAND HONOURS".

THE 10th BATTALION FINALLY LEFT FRANCE ON 19 MARCH, 1919
AND ARRIVED IN CALGARY ON 19 APRIL, 1919. THEY WERE OFFICIALLY
DISBANDED ON 15 DECEMBER 1920. FOR ITS ACTIONS, THE REGIMENT WAS
AWARDED 22 BATTLE HONOURS. SINCE THE MAIN BASIS OF THE 10th
BATTALION, CEF, ON FORMATION HAD BEEN FIVE COMPANIES OF THE 103rd
CALGARY RIFLES AND THREE COMPANIES OF THE 106th WINNIPEG LIGHT
INFANTRY, DUAL PERPETUATION OF THESE BATTLE HONOURS WAS PERMITTED.
ACCORDINGLY, IT WAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS AND THE WINNIPEG LIGHT INFANTRY WOULD JOINTLY BECOME PERPETUATING REGIMENTS OF THE 10th BATTALION, CEF. BOTH OF THESE REGIMENTS, THEREFORE, ADOPTED CERTAIN COMMON DISTINCTIONS. BOTH WERE AWARDED THE BATTLE HONOURS BY THE ORIGINAL 10th BATTALION, CEF, AND BOTH ADOPTED,WITH CERTAIN MODIFICATIONS, THE CAP BADGE OF THE "FIGHTING 10th".

THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS ALSO PERPETUATE THE 56th BATTALION,
CEF, AND THE 82nd BATTALION, CEF. THE AUTHORITY TO RAISE THE 56th
BATTALION WAS GENERAL ORDER 56 DATED 01 JULY, 1915. THE 56th
BATTALION SERVED IN CANADA FROM 14 APRIL, 1915 TO 01 APRIL,
1916. THE BATTALION LANDED IN ENGLAND ON 09 APRIL, 1916. AND
SERVED IN ENGLAND UNTIL 06 JULY, 1916 WHEN IT WAS ABSORBED INTO
THE 9th RESERVE BATTALION, CEF. THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE 56th
BATTALION WAS LIEUTENANT COLONEL W.C.G. ARMSTRONG WHO HAD
PREVIOUSLY COMMANDED THE 103rd REGIMENT (CALGARY RIFLES).
LIEUTENANT COLONEL ARMSTRONG COMMANDED FROM 01 APRIL TO 06 JULY,
1916.

THE 82nd BATTALION, CEF, WAS RAISED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF
GENERAL ORDER 103A DATED 15 AUGUST, 1915. ITS MEMBERS WERE
RECRUITED FROM THE CALGARY AREA AND IT SERVED IN CANADA FROM 01
SEPTEMBER, 1915 TO 22 MAY, 1916. THE 82nd BATTALION LANDED IN
ENGLAND ON 29 MAY, 1916 AND SERVED THERE UNTIL IT WAS ABSORBED BY
THE 9th BATTALION ON 18 JULY, 1916. LIEUTENANT COLONEL W.A. LAWRY
COMMANDED THE 82nd BATTALION FROM 05 MAY TO 18 JULY, 1916.

GENERAL ORDER 32 OF 1920, AS AMENDED BY GENERAL ORDER 95 OF
1921, FORMED THE CALGARY REGIMENT CONSISTING OF FIVE
BATTALIONS. THE SENIOR BATTALION WAS KNOWN AS THE 1st BATTALION
(10th Bn, CEF) THE CALGARY REGIMENT, WHILE THE 2nd BATTALION
PERPETUATES THE 50th BATTALION, CEF. THE 3rd, 4th AND 5th BATTALION,
WHICH WERE NEVER RAISED, PERPETUATE THE 56th, 82nd AND 137th
BATTALIONS, CEF. RESPECTIVELY. FINALLY, THE CALGARY REGIMENT WAS
REORGANIZED AS TWO SEPARATE REGIMENTS; THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS AND THE CALGARY REGIMENT, ON 15 MAY, 1924 BY GENERAL ORDER 64/24.

THE FIRST COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE POST-WAR BATTALION WAS
LIEUTENANT COLONEL (LATER BRIGADIER GENERAL) H.F. MACDONALD, CMG, DSC - A SURVIVOR OF ST. JULIEN.

IN THE INTER-WAR YEARS, THE REGIMENT EXISTED AS A BATTALION
OF THE NON-PERMENENT ACTIVE MILITIA AND CARRIED OUT NORMAL
INFANTRY TRAINING WITH SUCH LIMITED FACILITIES AS WERE AVAILABLE
(THEY WERE QUARTERED AT MEWATA ARMOURY WHICH HAS BEEN OUR
REGIMENTAL HOME SINCE 1917). DURING THIS TIME, A NUMBER OF NOTABLE
OF EVENTS OCCURRED. PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT, WAS THE APPROVAL
OF HIS MAJESTY, KING GEORGE V, OF THE ALLIANCE WITH THE ARGYLL AND
SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS (PRINCESS LOUISE'S) IN 1925. THIS LED TO
THE ADOPTION OF THE ARGYLL'S DRESS, WHICH WAS APPROVED BY HRH
PRINCESS LOUISE IN 1932. ALSO DURING THIS PERIOD, THE RIGHT
HONOURBLE R.B. BENNETT, PC, KC, LLD, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA FROM
1930-1935, BECAME THE HONORARY COLONEL. BY GENERAL ORDERS 64 AND
65/34, THE REGIMENT ALONG WITH THE CANADIAN SCOTTISH AND THE
WINNIPEG LIGHT INFANTRY, WERE GRANTED PERMISSION TO WEAR A
DISTINCTIVE BADGE TO COMMEMORATE ST. JULIEN. FOR THE REGIMENT, THE
BADGE CONSISTS OF AN OAK LEAF AND ACORN, WITH THE LETTERS
C.H. SUPERIMPOSED. THE BADGE IS WORN ON BOTH SHOULDER STRAPS OR
SLEEVES OF THE UNIFORM JACKET.

OF NOTEWORTHY MENTION, IS THE FACT THAT THE CALGARY
HIGHLANDERS WERE THE FIRST REGIMENT IN CALGARY TO TROOP THEIR
COLOURS. THIS HISTORICAL OCCASION TOOK PLACE IN 1938. ALSO IN 1938,
ON 24 APRIL,THE HONORARY COLONEL, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
R.B. BENNETT, PC, KC, LLD, PRESENTED THE COMMEMORATIVE OAK LEAVES
TO THE REGIMENT.

ON 08 MAY, 1939 THE CALGARY HAGHLANDERS WERE CHOSEN TO
PRESENT A GUARD OF HONOUR ON THE OCCASION OF A VISIT TO ALBERTA
FROM THEIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. NOT ONLY
DID THE REGIMENT PROVIDE THE HONOUR GUARD IN CALGARY BUT THE
REGIMENT WAS RUSHED BY TRAIN TO EDMONTON FOR THE CEREMONIES IN THE
PROVINCIAL CAPITAL.

IN SEPTEMBER, 1939 WAR CAME AGAIN. CANADA DECLARED WAR ON
THE 10TH OF SEPTEMBER BUT THE ORDER FOR MOBILIZATION HAD ALREADY
BEEN GIVEN ON 01 SEPTEMBER WHEN THE COMMANDING OFFICER RECEIVED A
ONE WORD MESSAGE, "MOBILIZE". THE COMMANDING OFFICER, LIEUTENANT
COLONEL H.H. RILEY, MM, WAS DECLARED MEDICALLY UNFIT SO COMMAND
WAS GIVEN TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL J.F. SCOTT, QBE, ED, COMMANDING
OFFICER OF THE 15th ALBERTA LIGHT HORSE. RECRUITING BEGAN AT
MEWATE ARMOURY ON THE 3rd OF SEPTEMBER IN CALGARY AND AT OTHER
POINTS IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA. BY THE 4th OF OCTOBER. THE REGIMENT WAS
20 MEN OVER STRENGTH. THE REGIMENT CONDUCTED ITS INITIAL TRAINING
ON THE SARCEE CAMP. ON 29 MARCH, 1940 THE COLOURS WERE LAID UP AT
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER AND ON 25 MAY, THE REGIMENT
DEPARTED FOR CAMP SHILO, MANITOBA WHERE IT BECAME A PART OF THE 6th
INFANTRY BRIGADE, 2nd CANADIAN DIVISION AND CONTINUED WITH MORE
ADVANCED TRAINING. ON 27 AUGUST, THE REGIMENT DEPARTED FROM HALIFAX ON THE SS PASTEUR, ARRIVING AT GOUROCK, SCOTLAND ON 04 SEPTEMBER TO BEGIN MORE THAN 3 YEARS OF TRAINING IN GREAT BRITAIN. THEFIRSTTASTE OF WAR WAS NOT LONG IN COMING. THE REGIMENT EXPERIENCEDITSFIRST AIR RAID AT 11:00 AM ON 05 SEPTEMBER AT GUILLEMONT BARRACKS IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND. ON 06 SEPTEMBER, THE REGIMENT WAS ISSUED ITS FIRST EQUIPMENT AND UNDER WENT A CHANGE WHICH WAS TO HAVE A PROFOUND EFFECT. THE FUSILIERS DE MONT ROYAL OF THE 5th BRIGADE WERE SENT TO ICELAND FOR GARRISON DUTY AND IT WAS DECIDED TO REPLACE THEM TEMPORARILY WITH THE HIGHLANDERS. ON 23 NOVEMBER, THIS CHANGE BECAME PERMANENT.

LIFE IN ENGLAND FEATURED MANY TRAINING SCHEMES. THE
REGIMENT, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL SCOTT, RAPIDLY BECAME
PROFICIENT AND RECEIVED COMMENDATIONS FROM NUMEROUS HIGH RANKING OFFICERS. AFTER A VISIT BY THE COMMANDING OFFICER TO THE 47th
LONDON DIVISION IN 1941, THE REGIMENT STARTED A FORM OF TRAINING
WHICH WAS TO BECOME STANDARD THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CANADIAN
ARMY. THIS WAS "BATTLE DRILL" WHICH EMPHASIZED GRUELING PHYSICAL
TRAINING AND REALISTIC EXERCISES UNDER LIVE FIRE.

ON 19 AUGUST 1942, NEWS WAS RECEIVED THAT TWO BRIGADES OF
THE 2nd DIVISION - THE 4th AND 6th (ALONG WITH THE 14th ARMD. REGT,
CALGARY TANKS) HAVE LANDED AT DIEPPE. CAPTAIN T.M. INSINGER, A
CALGARY HIGHLANDER OFFICER SERVING WITH SECOND CANADIAN DIVISION
AS GS03, WAS KILLED; THE FIRST CASUALTY OF THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS
IN ACTION DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

THE ONLY PART OF THE REGIMENT TO GO TO DIEPPE WAS THE
MORTAR PLATOON COMMANDED BY LIEUTENANT F.J. REYNOLDS WHICH CAME
UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND WHICH DISTINGUISHED ITSELF AS THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS IN ITS NEW ROLE OF DEFENDING ITS SHIP, RESCUING WOUNDED FROM THE BEACH AND BY MAKING SEVERAL TRIPS FROM THE BEACH TO THE HOSPITAL SHIP AND RETURN. SARGEANTS PITTAWAY,
LYSTER AND ANDERSON MINDED THE POM POMS OF THEIR LANDING CRAFT AND SHOT DOWN A MESSERSCHMITT.

DURING 1942 AND 1943, ALL FOUR RIFLE COMPANIES OF THE
BATTALION RECEIVED COMMANDO TRAINING IN SCOTLAND. THIS TRAINING
MADE THEM WELL QUALIFIED IN THE STORM-ASSAULT ROLE.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IN 1944, OFFICER CADET W.L. LYSTER
OF THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS WAS THE FIRST CANADIAN TO WIN THE SWORD OF HONOUR AT SANDHURST.

ON 06 JUNE, 1944 D-DAY TOOK PLACE. ON 06 JULY, THE ADVANCE
PARTY OF THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS LANDED IN FRANCE, FOLLOWED THE
NEXT DAY BY THE BATTALION. THE FIRST BATTLE CASUALTIES SUFFERED IN
NORMANDY WERE FROM GERMAN SHELLING ON 12 JULY. THE REGIMENT WAS IN ITS FIRST BATTLE ON 19 JULY. AN INDEPENDENT BATTLE ACTION AT CLAIR
TIZON WAS THE FORERUNNER OF THE EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE DURING THE
NEXT 3 MONTHS. DURING THAT TIME, THE REGIMENT EARNED 14 OF ITS
BATTLE HONOURS. THE REGIMENT WAS ALMOST CONSISTENTLY IN ACTION
UNTIL ITS LAST BATTLE AROUND THE GERMAN TOWN OF BERNE ON 03 MAY,
1945.

TYPICAL OF THE ACTIONS FOUGHT BY THE HIGHLANDERS WAS THE
BATTLE OF WALCHEREN CAUSEWAY ON 31 OCTOBER, 1944. HERE COMPANIES
OF THE BATTALION ATTACKED SUCCESSIVELY ACROSS A 2,000 YARD LONG,
50 YARD WIDE CAUSEWAY WHICH WAS HEAVILY DEFENDED AND ESTABLISHED,
WITHOUT COVER, A SMALL BRIDGEHEAD AT THE NORTH END, WHICH THEY
HELD ON TO UNTIL RELEIVED BY THE REGIMENT de MAISONNEUVE. THIS
BATTLE IS NOW COMMEMORATED ANNUALLY IN THE LATTER PART OF THE
MONTH OF OCTOBER AND IT WAS CHOSEN BY THE REGIMENT TO REPRESENT ALL ACTIONS OF THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS DURING WORLD WAR II. GENERAL H.D.G. CRERAR, COMMANDER OF THE FIRST CANADIAN ARMY
(1944-1945) STATED:

"THE BATTLE REPUTATION ON THE 10th BATTALION MADE THAT
NIGHT IN 1915 (ST. JULIEN WOOD, 22 APRIL, 1915) WAS
CONSISTENTLY UPHELD BY THE SUCCESS OF THE CALGARY
HIGHLANDERS THROUGHOUT THE MANY MONTHS OF FIGHTING WHICH
LED THE FIRST CANADIAN ARMY FROM THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY
TO NORTHWEST GERMANY. NO REGIMENT OF THAT ARMY CAME
THROUGH THAT TEST WITH BETTER RECORD THAN THAT OF THE
CALGARY HIGHLANDERS".

THE REGIMENT LEFT HOLLAND FOR ENGLAND ON 24 SEPTEMBER, 1945
AND FINALLY ARRIVED HOME ON 24 NOVEMBER, WHERE IT WAS DISBANDED.
FOR ITS 1939-1945 WAR SERVICE, THE REGIMENT WAS AWARDED 22 BATTLE
HONOURS, RAISING THE TOTAL OF ITS BATTLE HONOURS TO 44 - A NUMBER
EQUALLED BY FEW OTHER CANADIAN REGIMENTS FOR THEIR SERVICES IN THE
TWO WORLD WARS.

THE 2nd BATTALION (RESERVE) THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS FORMED
IN 1940 UNDER COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL NORMAN DINGLE, ED, KC,
AS A HOME SERVICE BATTALION, CONTINUED TO SERVE UNTIL APRIL, 1946.

ON 01 APRIL 1946, THE REGIMENT WAS REDESIGNATED "THE
CALGARY HIGHLANDERS". THE REGIMENT RECEIVED THE FREEDOM OF THE
CITY OF DRUMHELLER AND THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF CALGARY ON 03
JULY 1964. THE HONOUR OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY PERMITS THE
BATTALION TO MARCH THROUGH THE STREETS OF DRUMHELLER AND CALGARY WITH BAYONETS FIXED, DRUMS BEATING AND THE COLOURS FLYING. A TRIBUTE TO A GREAT REGIMENT. AFTER THE WAR, THE BATTALION HAD COMPANIES IN CALGARY, VULCAN, STAVELY, DRUMHELLER AND BANFF. THE BATTALION UNDERWENT A REORGANIZATION AND NOW ONLY HAS COMPANIES IN CALGARY.

SECTION 9: REGIMENTAL BATTLE HONOURS

1.19 GENERAL

THE CALGARY HIGHLANDERS HOLD A TOTAL OF 44 BATTLE HONOURS
FOR SERVICE IN TWO WARS, A LISTING IS AS FOLLOWS:

FIRST WORLD WAR (FOR SERVICE IN NORTHWESTERN EUROPE, 1914 – 1918)

AMIENS*HINDENBURG LINE*

ANCRE HEIGHTSMOUNT SORREL

ARLEUX*PASSCHENDAELE*

ARRAS, 1917 & 1918PURSUIT TO MONS*

CANAL du NORDSt. JULIEN*

DROCOURT-QUEANT*SCARPE, 1918

FESTUBERT, 1915YPRES, 1915 & 1917

FRANCE S. FLANDERS

GRAVENSTAFEL

HILL 70*

SECOND WORLD WAR (FOR SERVICE IN NORTHWESTERN EUROPE, 1944 – 1945)

ANTWERP-TURNHOUT CANAL*

BOURGUEBUS RIDGE*

CLAIR TIZON

DUNKIRK, 1944*

FALAISE*

VERRIERES RIDGE-TILLY-LA-

CAMPAGNE*

FAUBOURGE de VAUCELLES
FORET de la LONDE
GRONIGEN*

NORTHWEST EUROPE, 1944-1945
OLDENBURG

THE HOCHWALD*
THE REISCHSWALD
THE RHINE
THE RHINELAND*
THE SCHELDT*
FALAISE ROAD

SOUTH BEVELAND

WALCHEREN CAUSEWAY*-

WOENSDRECHT

WYNEGHEM

XANTEN

* THESE HONOURS ARE EMBLAZONED ON THE COLOURS.