The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
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The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada is Canada's fourth most senior Reserve Infantry regiment, and comprises of one battalion serving as part of the Land Force Reserve.
Motto
Nemo Me Impune Lacessuit ( Gaelic: No one provokes me with impunity)
Battle Honours (43)
All the honours that are in all caps are emblazoned on the colours of the regiment.
Early History
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899,1900
World War I
Ypres, 1915, '17
VIMY, 1917
Gravenstafel
Arleux
ST. JULIEN
Scarpe, 1917, '18
Festubert, 1915
Hill 70
MOUNT SORREL
PASSCHENDAELE
SOMME, 1916
AMIENS
Pozieres
Drocourt-Queant
Flers-Courcelette
Hindenburg Line
Thiepval
CANAL DU NORD
Ancre Heights
PURSUIT TO MONS
Ancre, 1916
FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-1918
ARRAS, 1917, '18
World War II
BOURGUEBUS RIDGE
Woensdrecht
FAUBOURG DE VAUCELLES
South Beveland
VERRIERES RIDGE -- TILLY-LA-CAMPAGNE
WALCHEREN CAUSEWAY
THE RHINELAND
Falaise
THE HOCHWALD
Clair Tizon
Xanten
FORTE DE LA LONDE
The Rhine
Dunkirk, 1944
Groningen
Antwerp-Turnhout Canal
OLDENBURG
THE SCHELDT
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945
