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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
Armorial Description
Superimposed upon a maple leaf, a bugle with strings surmounted by the Crown;
within the strings, the letters RHLI, below the bugle and upon the base of the
maple leaf two scrolls, the uppermost inscribed WENTWORTH REGIMENT and the
lower one bearing the motto SEMPER PARATUS.
Official Abbreviation: RHLI
Motto: Semper Paratus (Always ready)
Battle Honours (39)
Early History
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, 1915-18
VIMY, 1917
Second World War
DIEPPE
VERRIERES RIDGE -- TILLY-LA-CAMPAGNE
FALAISE
CLAIR TIZON
South Beveland
The Rhineland
Falaise Road
Twente Canal
FORET DE LA LONDE
WOENSDRECHT
The Scheldt
XANTEN
GRONINGEN
Oldenburg
North-West Europe, 1942, 1944-1945
GOCH-CALCAR ROAD
THE HOCHWALD
Order of Precedence: 7
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August 15
1917: HILL 70, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 25 Aug 17)
1917: VC won by Pte Michael James O'Rourke, 7th Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France
1944: Operation Dragoon, Allied landing in South of France
1944: SOUTHERN FRANCE, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 28 Aug 44)
1945: Emperor Hirohito's radio broadcast, accepting Allied surrender terms - VJ Day
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