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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment)
Armorial Description
In the centre of a wreath of thistle and maple leaves, the crest of Viscount
Peel (on a wreath of the colours argent and azure, a demi lion rampant argent,
gorged with a collar azure charged with three bezants, and holding between the
paws a shuttle or) resting on a scroll bearing the motto AIR SON AR DUTHCHAIS
and ensigned by the Crown; below the wreath, a scroll inscribed with the
designation THE LORNE SCOTS (PEEL DUFFERIN AND HALTON REGT).
Official Abbreviation: The Lorne Scots
Motto: Air Son Ar Duthchais (For our heritage)
Battle Honours (12)
First World War
YPRES, 1915, '17
HILL 70
Festubert, 1915
AMIENS
MOUNT SORREL
HINDENBURG LINE
SOMME, 1916
PURSUIT TO MONS
ARRAS, 1917, '18
Second World War
SICILY, 1943
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945
ITALY, 1943-45
Regimental Headquarters:
12 Chapel St.
Brampton, Ontario
L6W 2H1
Order of Precedence: 14
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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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