Heritage Structure | Annex A – Authorized Canadian Battle Honours and Honorary Distinctions

NOTE

ChAll of Chapter 3 should be considered as being a change.

  1. MOTTO (Honorary Distinction)
    • UBIQUE [“everywhere”] – Awarded in lieu of all individual battle honours to The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery, the Military Engineering Branch and Joint Task Force Two
  2. WAR OF 1812-1814 (LAND)
    • NIAGARA
  3. FENIAN RAIDS, 1866-1870 (LAND)
    • ECCLES HILL
    • TROUT RIVER
  4. NORTH WEST REBELLION, 1885 (LAND)
    • NORTH WEST CANADA, 1885
    • SASKATCHEWAN
    • BATOCHE
    • FISH CREEK
  5. SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902 (LAND)
    • SOUTH AFRICA (with year dates)
    • PAARDEBERG
  6. THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1914-1919 (LAND)
    • YPRES, 1915
      • Gravenstafel
      • St. Julien
      • Frezenberg
      • Bellewaarde
      • FESTUBERT, 1915
    • MOUNT SORREL
    • SOMME, 1916
      • *Albert (Beaumont Hamel), 1916
      • Bazentin
      • Pozières
      • Flers-Courcelette
      • Thiepval
      • *Le Transloy
      • Ancre Heights
      • Ancre, 1916
    • ARRAS, 1917
      • Vimy, 1917
    • ARLEUX
      • Scarpe, 1917
    • HILL 70
    • YPRES, 1917
      • Pilckem
      • Langemarck, 1917
      • Menin Road
      • Polygon Wood
      • Broodseinde
      • Poelcappelle
      • Passchendaele
    • CAMBRAI, 1917 (First Battle; see also 1918)
    • SOMME, 1918
      • St. Quentin
      • Bapaume, 1918
      • Rosières
      • Arras, 1918 (First Battle; see below)
      • Avre
    • *LYS
      • *Bailleul
      • *Kemmel
    • AMIENS
    • ARRAS, 1918 (Second Battle; see above)
      • Scarpe, 1918
      • Drocourt-Quéant
    • HINDENBURG LINE
      • Epéhy
      • Canal du Nord
      • St. Quentin Canal
      • Beaurevoir
      • Cambrai, 1918 (Second Battle, see also 1917)
    • *YPRES, 1918
    • VALENCIENNES
    • SAMBRE
    • PURSUIT TO MONS – this honour cannot be perpetuated by a regiment, which already holds either YPRES 1918, COURTRAI, SELLE, VALENCIENNES, or SAMBRE
    • *COURTRAI
    • FRANCE AND FLANDERS (with year dates)
    • *GALLIPOLI, 1915-16
    • *EGYPT, 1915-16
    • SIBERIA, 1918-19
    • THE GREAT WAR (with year dates) – this honour cannot be perpetuated and was awarded to units disbanded in England only.

NOTE

(*) Awarded to The Royal Newfoundland Regiment before Newfoundland entered Confederation.

Honorary Distinctions:

10th and 16th Canadian Infantry Battalions (Canadian Expeditionary Force) – oak leaf shoulder badges commemorating action in Kitcheners’ Wood April 1915. The Calgary Highlanders and The Royal Winnipeg Rifles perpetuate the 10th Battalion and The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) perpetuates the 16th Battalion. The Royal Winnipeg Rifles choose not to wear the distinction.

  1. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 (SEA)
    • DUNKIRK, 1940
    • NORTH SEA, 1940
    • AEGEAN, 1944
    • NORMANDY, 1944
    • BISCAY, 1944
    • SOUTH FRANCE, 1944
    • NORWAY (with year dates)
    • OKINAWA, 1945
    • ATLANTIC (with year dates)
    • ENGLISH CHANNEL (with year dates)
    • MEDITERRANEAN (with year dates)
    • ARCTIC (with year dates)
    • GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE (with year dates)
    • ALEUTIANS (with year dates)
  2. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 (LAND)
    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA, 1941
      • Hong Kong
    • NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1942
      • Dieppe
    • SICILY, 1943
    • LANDING IN SICILY
      • Grammichele
      • Piazza Armerina
      • Valguarnera
      • Assoro
      • Leonforte
      • Agira
    • ADRANO
      • Catenanuova
      • Regalbuto
      • Centuripe
      • Troina Valley
      • Pursuit to Messina
    • ITALY (with year dates)
      • Landing at Reggio
      • Potenza
      • Motta Montecorvino
      • Termoli
      • Monte San Marco
      • Gambatesa
      • Campobasso
      • Baranello
      • Colle d'Anchise
      • Torella
    • THE SANGRO
      • Castel di Sangro
      • The Moro
      • San Leonardo
      • The Gully
      • Casa Berardi
      • Ortona
      • San Nicola-San Tommaso
      • Point 59 or Torre Mucchia
    • MONTE CAMINO
      • Monte La Difensa-Monte La Remetanea
      • Monte Majo
    • ANZIO
    • CASSINO II
      • Gustav Line
      • Sant' Angelo in Teodice
      • Pignataro
    • LIRI VALLEY
      • Hitler Line
      • Aquino
      • Melfa Crossing
      • Ceprano
      • Torrice Crossroads
    • ROME
      • Advance to the Tiber
    • TRASIMENE LINE
      • Sanfatucchio
    • AREZZO
    • ADVANCE TO FLORENCE
    • Cerrone
    • GOTHIC LINE
      • Monteciccardo
      • Montecchio
      • Point 204 or Pozzo Alto Ridge
      • Monte Luro
      • Borgo Santa Maria
      • Tomba di Pesaro
    • CORIANO
    • LAMONE CROSSING
      • Misano Ridge
    • RIMINI LINE
      • San Martino-San Lorenzo
      • San Fortunato
      • Casale
      • Sant' Angelo in Salute
      • Bulgaria Village
      • Cesena
      • Pisciatello
      • Savio Bridgehead
      • Capture of Ravenna
      • Naviglio Canal
      • Fosso Vecchio
      • Fosso Munio
      • Coventello-Comacchio
      • Granarolo
      • Monte La Pieve
      • Monte Spaduro
    • NORTH-WEST EUROPE (with year dates)
    • SOUTHERN FRANCE
    • NORMANDY LANDING
      • Authie
      • Putot-en-Bessin
      • Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse
      • Le Mesnil-Patry
    • CAEN
      • Carpiquet
      • The Orne or The Orne (Buron)
    • BOURGUEBUS RIDGE
      • Faubourg de Vaucelles
      • St. André-sur-Orne
      • Maltot
      • Verrières Ridge - Tilly-la-Campagne
    • FALAISE
      • Falaise Road
      • Quesnay Wood
      • Clair Tizon
      • The Laison
      • Chambois
      • St. Lambert-sur-Dives
      • Dives Crossing
      • Forêt de la Londe
      • The Seine, 1944
      • Moerbrugge
      • Dunkirk, 1944
      • Le Havre
      • Boulogne, 1944
      • Calais, 1944
      • Moerkerke
      • Wyneghem
      • Antwerp-Turnhout Canal
    • THE SCHELDT
      • Leopold Canal
      • Woensdrecht
      • Savojaards Plaat
      • Breskens Pocket
      • South Beveland
      • Walcheren Causeway
      • The Lower Maas
      • Kapelsche Veer
      • The Roer
    • THE RHINELAND
      • The Reichswald
      • Waal Flats
      • Cleve
      • Moyland Wood
      • Goch-Calcar Road
      • The Hochwald
      • Xanten
      • Veen
    • THE RHINE
      • Emmerich-Hoch Elten
      • Twente Canal
      • Zutphen
      • Deventer
      • Arnhem, 1945
      • Groningen
      • Friesoythe
      • Apeldoorn
      • Ljsselmeer
      • Küsten Canal
      • Wagenborgen
      • Leer
      • Delfzijl Pocket
      • Bad Zwischenahn
      • Oldenburg

Honorary Distinctions:

7th/11th Hussars – the Second World War badge of The Royal Rifles of Canada, with year date 1941, borne on the regimental Guidon and appointments, for jointly mobilizing The Royal Rifles of Canada for service in Hong Kong. The 7th/11th Hussars amalgamated with The Sherbrooke Hussars.

The Princess of Wales' Own Regiment and The Brockville Rifles – the Second World War badge of The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, with year dates 1944-1945, borne on regimental Colours and appointments, for significantly reinforcing the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders.

The Royal Montreal Regiment – the Second World War badge of the Canadian Armoured Corps borne on the regimental Colour and appointments, for service with that arm.

Les Voltigeurs de Québec – the Second World War badge of the Royal 22e Régiment, borne on regimental appointments (Voltigeurs are rifle regiments and do not possess Colours), for significantly reinforcing the Royal 22e Régiment during the Italian campaign.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police – the Second World War badge of the Canadian Provost Corps, with the year dates 1939-1945, borne on the force's Guidon and appointments, in recognition of valuable services of the members of this force with the Canadian Provost Corps.

  1. THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 (AIR)
    • BATTLE OF BRITAIN, 1940
    • DEFENCE OF BRITAIN (with year dates)
    • ATLANTIC (with year dates)
    • ENGLISH CHANNEL AND NORTH SEA (with year dates)
    • BALTIC (with year dates)
    • FORTRESS EUROPE (with year dates)
      • Dieppe
    • FRANCE AND GERMANY, 1944-1945
      • Biscay Ports (with year dates)
        • Ruhr (with year dates)
        • Berlin (with year dates)
        • German Ports (with year dates)
        • Normandy, 1944
        • Arnhem
        • Walcheren
        • Rhine
    • BISCAY (with year dates)
    • EGYPT AND LIBYA, 1942-1943
    • NORTH AFRICA, 1943
    • SICILY, 1943
    • ITALY (with year dates)
      • Salerno
      • Anzio and Nettuno
      • Gustav Line
      • Gothic Line
    • CEYLON, 1942
    • EASTERN WATERS, 1942-1944
    • BURMA (with year dates)
    • ARCTIC, 1942
    • ALEUTIANS (with year dates)
    • NORTH-WEST ATLANTIC (with year dates)
    • PACIFIC COAST (with year dates)
  2. UNITED NATIONS OPERATIONS – KOREA – 1950-1953 (SEA AND LAND)
    • KOREA (with year dates)
      • Kapyong

Honorary Distinction:

2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry – The United States Presidential Unit Citation battle streamer with the word KAPYONG.

  1. SPECIAL DUTY AREA/PERSIAN GULF “OPERATION FRICTION”, 1991 (SEA AND AIR)
    • GULF AND KUWAIT/GOLFE ET KOWEÏT

Honorary Distinction:

416 and 437 Squadrons – a badge with a Kuwait Falcon beneath a palm tree and crossed scimitars, with year date 1991, borne on squadron Standards, for significantly reinforcing operational flying squadrons in the active theatre of operations.

  1. SPECIAL DUTY AREA/BALKANS “OPERATION ECHO/ALLIED FORCE’, 1999 (AIR)
    • KOSOVO

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