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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa
Armorial Description
Within a wreath of thistles and maple leaves, the figure of St. Andrew and
Cross standing on a mount charged with a plaque inscribed ADVANCE: on the
lower bend of the wreath two scrolls, the upper inscribed THE CAMERON
HIGHLANDERS, the lower OF OTTAWA (MG).
Official Abbreviation: CH of O
Motto: Advance
Battle Honours (37)
Early History
First World War
Mount Sorrel
AMIENS
SOMME, 1916
Scarpe, 1918
Ancre Heights
DROCOURT-QUEANT
Ancre, 1916
HINDENBURG LINE
ARRAS, 1917,'18
CANAL DU NORD
VIMY, 1917
VALENCIENNES
YPRES, 1917
Sambre
PASSCHENDAELE
France and Flanders, 1916-18
Second World War
NORMANDY LANDING
THE SCHELDT
CAEN
Breskens Pocket
CARPIQUET
The Rhineland
The Orne
Waal Flats
BOURGUEBUS RIDGE
THE HOCHWALD
Faubourg de Vaucelles
THE RHINE
FALAISE
Zutphen
Quesnay Wood
Deventer
The Laison
Leer
BOULOGNE, 1944
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945
Regimental Headquarters:
The Drill Hall
Cartier Square
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0K2
Order of Precedence: 27
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April 4
1848: 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's): Regi Patriaeque Fidelis
1916: Canadian soldiers relieve British troops on the Western Front at St. Eloi. By daybreak the troops will come under heavy German artillery which will decimate their packed ranks.
1918: Battle of the AVRE
1942: Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall and his crew, flying a PBY-5 flying boat, spot a Japanese naval force heading for the island of Ceylon. Their warning allowed the island's defenders to prepare for the Japanese attempt to take the island, an attack which fail
1945: 11 Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry soldiers killed in action liberating Zutphen, Netherlands.
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