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Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke



Armorial Description

A grenade with the Crown superimposed upon the ball within an annulus inscribed LES FUSILIERS DE SHERBROOKE, surmounted by a beaver and super- imposed upon a maple leaf; the whole resting on a scroll inscribed DROIT AU BUT.


Official Abbreviation: Fus de Sher

Motto: Droit au But (To the point)


Battle Honours (23)

First World War

    AMIENS
Second World War
    D'EBARQUEMENT EN NORMANDIE
    Anvers-Canal de Tumhout
    AUTHIE
    L'ESCAUT
    CAEN
    Meuse inferieure
    L'Ome
    LA RHTNANIE
    COTE DE BOURGUEBUS
    Le Hochwald
    Faubourg de Vaucelles
    XANTEN
    Saint-Andre-sure
    LE RHIN
    FALAISE
    Emmerich-Hoch Elton
    Route de la Falaise
    ZUTPHEN
    Clair Tizon
    Deventer
    La Laison
    Nord-Ouest de l'Europe, 1944-1945
Colonel-in-Chief: None

Authorized Marches:
Quick March: The Queen City

Location of Sub Units: Sherbrooke and Granby, Quebec

Alliances:

    The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment
    Topshom Barracks
    Exeter, England

Order of Precedence: 42
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Military Word Of The Day
To disrupt
:
(Mission/task Verb) A tactical task or obstacle effect (that integrates fire planning and obstacle effort) that breaks apart an enemy's formation and tempo, interrupts the enemy's time table, causes premature commitment of forces, and/or splinters their attack.


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Today in Military History

December 22



1919:

The Air Board submits a memo to the Privy Council proposing to create the Canadian Air Force


1943:

VILLA GRANDE, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 28 Dec 43)


1944:

US troops under McAuliffe encircled at Bastogne refuse German surrender terms




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