The Calgary Highlanders

Armorial 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 the wreath a scrou emblazoned with thistles, placed above a scrou inscribed with the unit designation CALGARY 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.

Official Abbreviation: Calg Highrs

Motto: Airaghardt (Onward)

Battle Honours (42)

First World War

Second World War

Colonel-in-Chief: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II

Authorized Marches:
Quick March: The Highland Laddie and All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border

Regimental Headquarters:
Mewata Armoury
801, 11 th Street SW
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 2C4

Order of Precedence: 41

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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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