Total Members: 25,458
Total Posts: 849,796
Total Topics: 50,779
Total Categories: 14
Total Boards: 99
The Royal Winnipeg Rifles
Armorial Description
A maltese Cross with a tablet above surmounted by the Crown; on the centre of
the Cross a medallion edged by an annulus inscribed ROYAL WINNIPEG RIFLES; on
the medallion a naked black devil running on a scroll bearing the regimental
motto HOSTI ACIE NOMINATI; in the devil's right hand a trident and offering a
chalice with his left; encircling the Cross a wreath of maple leaves within a
spiral riband scroll inscribed with the battle honours which are placed in
pairs one over the other on each visible turning of the scroll; the battle
honours are as follows: on the tablet below the Crown, FISH CREEK and BATOCHE;
on the dexter side of the wreath from the top downward, YPRES, 1915,'17 and
MOUNT SORREL; VIMY 1917 and PASSCHENDAELE; DROCOURT-QUEANT and NORMANDY
LANDING; CARPIQUET and CALAIS, 1944; LEOPOLD CANAL and THE RHINE; on the
sinister side FESTUBERT, 1915 and SOMME, 1916; HILL 70 and AMIENS; CANAL DU
NORD and PUTOT-EN-BESSIN; FALAISE and THE SCHELDT; MOYLAND WOOD and N.W.
EUROPE, 1944-45; on the portion of the battle honour scroll on the base of the
wreath NORTH-WEST CANADA, 1885 and SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900.
Official Abbreviation: R Wpg Rif
Motto: Hosti Acie Nominati (Named by the enemy in battle)
Battle Honours (44)
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
Order of Precedence: 28
Go back to the Infantry Regiments page.
Go back to the Army home page.
Military Word Of The Day
Military Term #232 of 926:
FHP
:
Force Health Protection
Today in Military History
March 15
1311:
Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1781:
American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse - Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
1916:
President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917:
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
1939:
World War II: Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
1943:
World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov - the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1944:
World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault.
1988:
The Halabja poison gas attack of the Iran-Iraq War begins.
1991:
Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
