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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Lincoln and Welland Regiment
Armorial Description
Within an annulus bearing the words LINCOLN & WELLAND, an escallop; below, a
scroll inscribed NON NOBIS SED PATRIAE; the whole surmounted by the Crown.
Official Abbreviation: Linc Welld R
Motto: Non Nobis Sed Patriae (Not for ourselves, but for our
country)
Battle Honours (26)
First World War
YPRES, 1915, '17
Festubert, 1915
SOMME, 1916
ARRAS, 1917, '18
Hill 70
AMIENS
Hindenburg Line
PURSUIT TO MONS
Second World War
FALAISE
Falaise Road
THE LAISON
Chambois
The Seine, 1944
MOERBRUGGE
THE SCHELDT
Breskens Pocket
THE LOWER MAAS
KAPELSCHE VEER
THE RHINELAND
THE HOCHENWALD
Veen
TWENTE CANAL
Friesoythe
Kusten Canal
Bad Zwischenahn
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945
Order of Precedence: 10
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August 18
1917: VC won by A/Major Okill Massey Learmouth MC, 2nd Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)
1917: VC won by Sgt Frederick Hobson, 20th Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)
1944: VC won by Major David Vivian Currie, 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment), St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France
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