The Calgary Highlanders is a Canadian Army Primary Reserve infantry regiment, headquartered at Mewata Armouries in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 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