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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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The Royal New Brunswick Regiment
Armorial Description
Superimposed on the centre of a circular scroll bearing the designation ROYAL
NEW BRUNSWICK REGIMENT, the arms of the Province of New Brunswick (i.e.: or,
an ancient galley, or lymphad, the sails unfurled, oars in action on the sea
all proper, the flags and pennant gules; on a chief gules; a lion passant
guardant, or) over the base of the circular scroll a second scroll inscribed
with the motto SPEM REDUXIT; the whole surmounted by the Crown.
Official Abbreviation: RNBR
Motto: Spem Reduxit (Hope Restored)
Battle Honours (70)
Early History
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899-1900, 1902
First World War
YPRES, 1915,'17
Scarpe, 1917,'18
FESTUBERT, 1915
HILL 70
Mount Sorrel
PASSCHENDAELE
SOMME, 1916,'18
AMIENS
Flers-Courcelette
Drocourt-Queant
Thiepval
HINDENBURG LINE
Ancre Heights
Canal du Nord
Ancre, 1916
CAMBRAI, 1918
ARRAS, 1917,'18
Valenciennes
VIMY, 1917
France and Flanders, 1915-18
Arleux
Second World War
LANDING IN SICILY
Falaise
Valguarnera
Falaise Road
Sicily, 1943
Quesnay Wood
LANDING AT REGGIO
The Laison
Gambatesa
Chambois
The Sangro
The Seine, 1944
The Gully
Moerbrugge
POINT 59
BOULOGNE, 1944
Cassino II
Calais, 1944
Gustav Line
Moerkerke
Liri Valley
THE SCHELDT
HITLER LINE
Breskens Pocket
Melfa Crossing
The Lower Maas
Gothic Line
Kepelsche Veer
Lamone Crossing
The Rhineland
Rimini Line
Waal Flats
San Fortunato
The Hockwald
NAVIGLIO CANAL
THE RHINE
Italy, 1943-45
Emmerich - Hoch Elten
NORMANDY LANDING
Zutphen
Caen
Apeldoorn
CARPIQUET
Kusten Canal
Bourguebus Ridge
Bad Zwischenahn
Faubourg de Vaucelles
North-West Europe, 1944-45
Order of Precedence: 23
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March 15
1311: Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1781: American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse - Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
1916: President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
1939: World War II: Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
1943: World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov - the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1944: World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault.
1988: The Halabja poison gas attack of the Iran-Iraq War begins.
1991: Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
44BC: Julius Caesar murdered by Brutus in Rome
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