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The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada

QOR Cap Badge

Armorial Description

The Arabic numberal 2 encircled by a scroll inscribed QUEEN'S OWN RIFLES OF CANADA the scroll surmounted by the Crown. Joined to the base of the scroll and clasped with a bucklem, a ribbon scroll bearing the motto IN PACE PARATUS. The whole superimposed on a maple leaf.


Official Abbreviation: QOR of C

Motto: In Pace Paratus (In peace prepared)


Battle Honours (43)

Early History

    NORTH-WEST CANADA, 1885
    SOUTH AFRICA, 1898-1900
First World War
    Ypres, 1915, '17
    Arleux
    Gravenstafel
    Scarpe, 1917, '18
    ST. JULIEN
    HILL 70
    Festubert, 1915
    PASSCHENDAELE
    MOUNT SORREL
    AMIENS
    SOMME, 1916
    Drocourt-Queant
    Pozieres
    Hindenburg Line
    FLEURS-COURCELETTE
    CANAL DU NORD
    Ancre Heights
    PURSUIT TO MONS
    Arras, 1917, '18
    France and Flanders, 1915-1918
    VIMY, 1917
Second World War
    NORMANDY LANDING
    Calais, 1944
    LE MESNIL-PATRY
    THE SCHELDT
    CAEN
    Breskens Pocket
    Carpiquet
    THE RHINELAND
    BOURGUEBUS RIDGE
    Waal Flats
    Faubourg de Vaucelles
    THEHOCHWALD
    FALAISE
    THE RHINE
    Quesnay Wood
    Emmerich-Hoch Elten
    The Laison
    Deventer
    BOULOGNE, 1944
    North-West Europe 1944-1945
Colonel-in-Chief: HRH Princess Alexandra

Authorized Marches:
Quick March: The Buffs
Double Past: Money Musk

Regimental Headquarters:
The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
Moss Park Armoury
130 Queen St E.
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 1R9


Order of Precedence: 3

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Today in Military History

December 9



1824:

Battle of Ayacucho - Peru defeats Spain


1835:

The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio


1861:

Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War created by the U.S. Congress


1937:

Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing begins.


1940:

World War II: British Army attacks Italian forces in North Africa.


1941:

China and Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea declares war on Germany, and Italy.


1944:

British Eigth Army suspends offensive in Italy


1945:

American General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile crash in occupied Germany. He dies twelve days later.


1946:

The Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals began with the Doctors' Trial, the trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity began for medical researchers involved in the horrors of Nazi human experimentation.


1961:

Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel.


1992:

US Marines land in Somalia




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