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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada
Armorial Description
A grenade fired proper, with the monogram HF, the flame surmounted by the
Royal Crown proper, superimposed on the cross of St. Andrew. At the base of
the grenade is a motto ribbon bearing the word CANADA. The whole is
embellished by a glory.
Official Abbreviation: RHFC
Motto: Defence, not Defiance
Battle Honours (28)
First World War
MOUNT SORREL
YPRES, 1917
SOMME, 1916
AMIENS
ARRAS, 1917, '18
HINDENBURG LINE
HILL 70
PURSUIT TO MONS
Second World War
NORMANDY LANDING
THE SCHELDT
CAEN
Savojaards Platt
THE ORNE (BURON)
Breskens Pocket
BOURGUEBUS RIDGE
THE RHINELAND
Faubourg de Vaucelles
Waal Flats
FALAISE
The Hochwald
THE LAISON
Chambois
Zutphen
BOULOGNE, 1944
Leer
Calais, 1944
North-West Europe, 1944-1945
Regimental Headquarters:
The Armoury
Mill St.
Cambridge, Ontario
N1R 3P1
Order of Precedence: 12
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March 5
1936: Spitfire fighter plane unveiled for the first time.
1943: RAF bombing raid on Essen marks beginning of the Battle of the Ruhr
1945: Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles successfully hunted down a Japanese sniper who had kept his section under fire at Snowdon East in Burma. He then went forward alone and killed the defenders in four enemy positions, including a machine-gun team in a bunker. Supported now by three other Gurkhas, he defended the captured bunker against a Japanese counter-attack, driving the enemy back with very heavy losses. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
1967: Georges-Philias Vanier 1888-1967 dies at age 78; soldier, Royal 22ème Regiment; Canada's 19th Governor-General 1959-67, and the first French Canadian to hold the position.
1995: Canadian Airborne Regiment officially disbanded at laying-up of the colors ceremony at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa; 660 paratroopers dismissed.
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