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

Second World War

Regimental Headquarters:
The Armoury
Mill St.
Cambridge, Ontario
N1R 3P1

Order of Precedence: 12

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Today in Military History

April 4

1848:

8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's): Regi Patriaeque Fidelis

1916:

Canadian soldiers relieve British troops on the Western Front at St. Eloi. By daybreak the troops will come under heavy German artillery which will decimate their packed ranks.

1918:

Battle of the AVRE

1942:

Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall and his crew, flying a PBY-5 flying boat, spot a Japanese naval force heading for the island of Ceylon. Their warning allowed the island's defenders to prepare for the Japanese attempt to take the island, an attack which fail

1945:

11 Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry soldiers killed in action liberating Zutphen, Netherlands.

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