The Royal Winnipeg Rifles

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The Royal Winnipeg Rifles
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Current Role: Reserve infantry battalion.

The Royal Winnipeg Rifles are Canada's twenty-seventh most senior Reserve Infantry regiment, and comprises of one battalion serving as part of the Land Force Reserve.

Motto

Hosti Acie Nominati (Latin: Named by the enemy in battle)

Battle Honours (44)

Battle Honours presented in all caps are emblazoned on the Regimental Colour of each Battalion of the Regiment.

Early History

FISH CREEK
NORTH-WEST CANADA, 1885
BATOCHE
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899,1900

First World War

YPRES, 1915,'17
Arleux
Gravenstafel
HILL 70
St. Julien
PASSCHENDAELE
FESTUBERT, 1915
AMIENS
MOUNT SORREL
Scarpe, 1918
SOMME, 1916
DROCOURT-QUEANT
Thiepval
Hindenburg Line
Ancre Heights
CANAL DU NORD
Arras, 1917,18
Pursuit to Mons
VIMY, 1917
France and Flanders, 1915-18

Second World War

NORMANDY LANDING
THE SCHELDT
PUTOT-EN-BESSIN
LEOPOLD CANAL
Caen
Breskens Pocket
CARPIQUET
The Rhineland
The Orne
Waal Flats
Bourguebus Ridge
MOYLAND WOOD
FALAISE
THE RHINE
The Laison
Emmerich-Hoch Elten
The Seine, 1944
Deventer
CALAIS, 1944
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-45

Source of Work

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