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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

    MOUNT SORREL
    PASSCHENDAELE
    SOMME, 1916
    AMIENS
    FLERS-COURCELETTE
    SCARPE, 1918
    Ancre Heights
    HINDENBURG LINE
    Arras, 1917,'18
    Canal du Nord
    VIMY, 1917
    PURSUIT TO MONS
    HILL 70
    France and Flanders, 1915-1918
    Ypres, 1917
Second World War
    LANDING IN SICILY
    GOTHIC LINE
    Piazza Amerina
    Monteciccardo
    Leonforte
    Monte Luro
    Agira
    RIMINI LINE
    ADRANO
    PISCIATELLO
    Troina Valley
    San Fortunato
    Sicily, 1943
    SAVIO BRIDGEHEAD
    Colle danchise
    NAVICLIOCANAL
    The Gully
    Fosso Munio
    ORTONA
    Italy, 1943-1945
    LIRI VALLEY
    Apeldoorn
    Hitler Line
    NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1945
Colonel-in-Chief: The Right Honourable, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, CD, JP, DL, CBE


Order of Precedence: 38
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