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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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Governor General's Foot Guards
Armorial Description
Upon a star argent of six main points an annulus gules bearing the motto
CIVITAS ET PRINCEPS CURA NOSTRA or, within the annulus, a cross azure.
Official Abbreviation: GGFG
Motto: Civitas et Princeps Cura Nostra (Our care is Queen and country)
Battle Honours (34)
Early History
NORTH-WEST CANADA, 1885
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900
First World War
Ypres, 1915, '17
Gravenstafel
ST. JULIEN
FESTUBERT, 1915
Mount Sorrel
Somme, 1916
POZIERES
Fleurs-Courcelette
Ancre Heights
Arras, 1917, '18
VIMY, 1917
ARLEUX
Scarpe, 1917, '18
HILL 70
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
DROCOURT - QUEANT
Hindenburg Line
CANAL DU NORD
Pursuit to Mons
France and Flanders, 1915-1918
Second World War
FALAISE
Falaise Road
THE LAISON
CHAMBOIS
THE SCHELDT
THE LOWER MAAS
THE RHINELAND
THE HOCHWALD
VEEN
BAD ZWISCHENAHN
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945
Order of Precedence: 1
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August 18
1917: VC won by A/Major Okill Massey Learmouth MC, 2nd Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)
1917: VC won by Sgt Frederick Hobson, 20th Battalion, CEF, Hill 70, France (posthumous)
1944: VC won by Major David Vivian Currie, 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment), St. Lambert-sur-Dives, France
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