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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

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The Lincoln and Welland Regiment

Armorial Description
Within an annulus bearing the words LINCOLN & WELLAND, an escallop; below, a
scroll inscribed NON NOBIS SED PATRIAE; the whole surmounted by the Crown.
Official Abbreviation: Linc Welld R
Motto: Non Nobis Sed Patriae (Not for ourselves, but for our
country)
Battle Honours (26)
First World War
YPRES, 1915, '17
Festubert, 1915
SOMME, 1916
ARRAS, 1917, '18
Hill 70
AMIENS
Hindenburg Line
PURSUIT TO MONS
Second World War
FALAISE
Falaise Road
THE LAISON
Chambois
The Seine, 1944
MOERBRUGGE
THE SCHELDT
Breskens Pocket
THE LOWER MAAS
KAPELSCHE VEER
THE RHINELAND
THE HOCHENWALD
Veen
TWENTE CANAL
Friesoythe
Kusten Canal
Bad Zwischenahn
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945
Order of Precedence: 10
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August 29
1916: British capture of German prisoners since the beginning of the British offensive July 1st, 266 officers, 15,203 men, 86 guns and 160 machine guns
1943: German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government.
1949: Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1958: United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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