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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.
'''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==
==Motto==
''Nemo Me Impune Lacessuit'' ( Gaelic: No one provokes me with impunity)
''Nemo Me Impune Lacessuit'' (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity)


==Battle Honours (43)==
==Battle Honours (43)==

Latest revision as of 14:50, 18 May 2006

The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
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Regimental HQ:
Colonel in Chief: HRH The Prince of Wales
Regimental Birthday:
Current Role: Reserve infantry battalion.

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 (Latin: 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

Source of Work

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

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