Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
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Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke is a reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces. It is based in Sherbrooke, Quebec with a sub-unit in Granby.
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[edit] Armourial description
A grenade with the Crown superimposed upon the ball within an annulus inscribed Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke, surmounted by a beaver and super-imposed upon a maple leaf; the whole resting on a scroll inscribed Droit au but.
[edit] Regimental names
- 1910: Raised as the 54th Regiment (Carabiniers de Sherbrooke)
- 1920: Les Carabiniers de Sherbrooke
- 1920: Reorganised into two battalions; 1st Battalion (Perpetuating 163rd Battalion CEF) and 2nd (Reserve) Battalion
- 1933: Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
- 1940: Amalgamated with The Sherbrooke Regiment, to form The Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, CASF
- 1945: Disbanded
- 1946: Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke (Reconstitued as Militia)
[edit] Battle honours
- First World War: Amiens
- Second World War: Débarquement de Normandie (D-Day), Authie, Caen, L'Orne, Crête de Bourgébus, Faubourg de Vaucelles, St-André-Sur-Orne, Falaise, Route de La Falaise, Clair Tizon, La Liaison, Anvers-Canal de Turnout, L'Escaut, Meuse inférieure, La Rhénanie, Le Hochwald, Xanten, Le Rhin, Emmerich-Holen Elton, Zutphen, Deventer
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[edit] Order of precedence
| Preceded by: The Calgary Highlanders |
Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke | Succeeded by: The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada |
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