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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

    SOUTH AFRICA, 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, 1915-18
    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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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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