The Canadian Airborne Regiment

(Disbanded)

Armorial Description

An open parachute between two vertical wings with shroud lines issuant from a cloud resting between the bases of the wings. At the junction of the shroud lines and superimposed on the cloud, a single large maple leaf flanked by two smaller maple leaves on each side; the whole resting upon a riband scroll inscribed, AIRBORNE - CANADA - AEROPORTE. Wings of scroll in gold coloured finish. Parachute, clouds and maple leaves in silver colour finish.

Official Abbreviation: CAR

Motto: Ex Coelis (From the clouds)

Battle Honours (12)

Second World War

Order of Precedence: N/A

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Today in Military History

April 4

1848:

8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's): Regi Patriaeque Fidelis

1916:

Canadian soldiers relieve British troops on the Western Front at St. Eloi. By daybreak the troops will come under heavy German artillery which will decimate their packed ranks.

1918:

Battle of the AVRE

1942:

Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall and his crew, flying a PBY-5 flying boat, spot a Japanese naval force heading for the island of Ceylon. Their warning allowed the island's defenders to prepare for the Japanese attempt to take the island, an attack which fail

1945:

11 Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry soldiers killed in action liberating Zutphen, Netherlands.

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