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All the honours that are in all caps are emblazoned on the colours of the regiment.<br>
All the honours that are in all caps are emblazoned on the colours of the regiment.<br>
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Latest revision as of 11:21, 18 May 2006

The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
Regimental HQ: Moss Park Armoury, Toronto, Ontario
Colonel in Chief: HRH Princess Alexandra
Regimental Birthday:
Current Role: Reserve infantry battalion.

The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada is Canada's third most senior Reserve Infantry regiment, and comprises of one battalion serving as part of the Land Force Reserve.

Motto

In Pace Paratus (Latin: In peace prepared)

Marches

Quick March

The Buffs

Double Past

Money Musk

Battle Honours (43)

All the honours that are in all caps are emblazoned on the colours of the regiment.

Early History

NORTH-WEST CANADA, 1885
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900

World War I

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

World War II

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

Source of Work

http://army.ca/inf/qor.php