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|<b><div style="font-size: 80%">Colonel in Chief: HM Queen Elizabeth II</div></b> | |<b><div style="font-size: 80%">Colonel in Chief: HM Queen Elizabeth II</div></b> | ||
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The Canadian Grenadier Guards is Canada's second most senior Reserve Infantry regiment, and comprises one battalion serving as part of the Land Force Reserve.
Current Information
Address: Canadian Grenadier Guards, 4171, Esplanade Avenue. Montreal, PQ, H2W 1S9
Phone: (514)496-1984
Fax: (514)496-2709
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant Colonel John L. Shone CD, ADC
Regimental Sergeant Major: Chief Warrant Officer M. Kelly
Motto
Honi soit qui mal y pense (French: Evil be to him who evil thinks)
Battle Honours
Early History
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900
World War I
YPRES, 1915, '17
FESTUBERT, 1915
Mount Sorrel
SOMME, 1916
Ancre Heights
Ancre, 1916
ARRAS, 1917, '18
VIMY, 1917
Hill 70
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
Scarpe, 1918
DROCOURT-QUEANT
Hindenburg Line
CANAL DU NORD
Valenciennes
Sambre
World War II
FALAISE
FALAISE ROAD
THE LAISON
CHAMBOIS
The Scheldt
THE LOWER MAAS
THE RHINELAND
THE HOCHWALD
VEEN
TWENTE CANAL
Bad Zwischenahn
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1955
