Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke

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Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke is a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces. It is based in Sherbrooke, Quebec with a sub-unit in Granby.

1 Armourial description
2 Regimental names
3 Battle honours
4 Alliances
5 External links
6 Order of precedence

[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 (Canadien-Français) 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