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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Canadian Grenadier Guards
Armorial Description
A grenade with seventeen exterior flame points; on the ball of the grenade
the Royal cypher reversed and interlaced ensigned by the Crown; below the
Royal cypher, the word CANADA.
Official Abbreviation: CGG
Motto: Honi soit qui mal y pense (Evil be to him who evil
thinks)
Battle Honours (31)
Early History
First World War
YPRES, 1915, '17
FESTUBERT, 1915
Mount Sorrel
SOMME, 1916
Ancre Heights
Ancre, 1916
ARRAS, 1917, '18
VIMY, 1917
Hill 70
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
Scarpe, 1918
DROCOURT-QUEANT
Hindenburg Line
CANAL DU NORD
Valenciennes
Sambre
Second World War
FALAISE
FALAISE ROAD
THE LAISON
CHAMBOIS
The Scheldt
THE LOWER MAAS
THE RHINELAND
THE HOCHWALD
VEEN
TWENTE CANAL
Bad Zwischenahn
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1955
Order of Precedence: 2
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June 15
1915: VC won by Lt Frederick William Campbell, 1st Battalion, CEF, Givenchy, France (posthumous)
1940: A&SH leave France
1940: The Canadian Provost Corps is authorized: Discipline by Example
1982: Formal surrender by General Menendez to Major-General Jeremy Moore, of all Argentine Forces on East and West Falklands
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