The Loyal Edmonton Regiment

Armorial Description

Between two maple leaves a windmill sail in saltire; superimposed upon the centre of the sail a coyote's head affronts, surmounting the wolf's head the red rose of Lancaster; below the coyote's head and resting on a scroll inscribed THE LOYAL EDMONTON REGIMENT, the numerals 49; the whole surmounted by the Crown.

Official Abbreviation: L Edmn R

Motto: Fears no Foe

Battle Honours (39)

First World War

Second World War

Colonel-in-Chief: The Right Honourable, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, CD, JP, DL, CBE

Order of Precedence: 38

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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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