Shoulder flashes Calgary Highlanders of Canada , 2rd Canadian Division

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The Calgary Highlanders is a Canadian Army Primary Reserve infantry regiment, headquartered at Mewata Armouries in Calgary, AlbertaCanada. The regiment is a part-time reserve unit, under the command of 41 Canadian Brigade Group, itself part of 3rd Canadian Division, one of four region-based Canadian Army divisions.

The regiment mobilized for active service as The Calgary Highlanders, CASF on 1 September 1939. It was redesignated as the 1st Battalion, The Calgary Highlanders, CASF on 7 November 1940. On 27 August 1940, it embarked for Britain. The battalion's mortar platoon took part in OPERATION JUBILEE, the raid on Dieppe, on 19 August 1942. On 6 July 1944, the battalion landed in France as part of the 5th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, and it continued to fight in North-West Europe until the end of the war. The overseas battalion disbanded on 15 December 1945.

 

  • BOURGUÉBUS RIDGE
  • Faubourg de Vaucelles
  • Verrières Ridge-Tilly-la-Campagne
  • Falaise
  • Falaise Road
  • Clair Tizon
  • Forêt de la Londe
  • Dunkirk, 1944
  • Wyneghem
  • Antwerp-Turnhout Canal
  • The Scheldt
  • Woensdrecht
  • South Beveland
  • Walcheren Causeway
  • The Rhineland
  • The Reichswald
  • The Hochwald
  • Xanten
  • The Rhine
  • Groningen
  • Oldenburg
  • North-West Europe, 1944–1945 


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