The 1st Battalion, The Regina Rifle Regiment,Assault Landingat Courseulles, France, June 1944. Painting by O.N. Fisher, 1950. From Courseulles to Caen Members of Headquarters Company, Regina Rifles, admire a tattooed Frenchman. 15 June 1944. (National Archives of Canada PA 169259 ...
The Princess Royal has hailed the “loyalty, bravery and duty” of a Canadian regiment who fought to liberate Europe with Allied forces 80 years ago. Anne’s words of tribute came as she unveiled a statue in Normandy of a rifleman from the Royal Regina Rifles, shown...
The regiment was mobilized on 1 September 1939 and recruited to full war establishment by 19 September. In June 1940, The Royal Regiment was sent to Iceland, and subsequently to England to become part of the 4th Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Canadian Division. With this formation, the Royals ...
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Further ISAF coalition troops advanced from the south including three companies from the United States 82nd Airborne, one company of Dutch soldiers from the 11 Airmobile Brigade, and members of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment Battlegroup. They were all supported by a range of air asse...
regiment, but also one of the best and bravest. All his life he had been devoted to field sports, and his fame as a plucky big-game hunter and skilful shot was well known in many a Central Indian village and Cashmere valley. Educated at the Canadian Military College, he was a master ...
A former Canadian Armed Forces sniper is battling two fights in Ukraine – against Russian forces on the front lines and Russian disinformation claiming he was killed in action. 🔥当俄羅斯侵略烏克蘭的戰爭來到第14天时(2022.3.9),触发第一波1.6萬國際志願軍從全球各地來到烏克蘭參戰抗俄,其中,加拿大的...