The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment

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The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment

Badge of the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment
Active 1905 - Present
Country Canada
Branch Militia
Type Line Infantry
Role Light Infantry
Size One Battalion
Part of Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Garrison/HQ Thunder Bay
Nickname Lake Sups
Motto Inter Pericula Intrepidi (Fearless in the Face of Danger)
March Hielan' Laddie
Engagements World War I
World War II
Insignia
Tartan McGillivray
Abbreviation LSSR

The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment is a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces. The regiment is Located in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and is part of 38 Canadian Brigade Group.

The unit was begun in response to the second Riel Rebellions, and was originally the 96th Algoma Rifles.

Also known as the "Lake Sups" (pronounced soups), the regiment was active in the Second World War. During the war, the regiment - then known as The Lake Superior Regiment (Motor), or LSR(M) - mobilized a Motor (motorized infantry) battalion for the 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division.

The LSR(M) and the British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) (RCAC) were the only Canadian land based units to score a naval victory during the Second World War. On November 5, 1944, the units sank a number of German ships in the port of Zijpe. [1] The units sank three German ships and destroyed a fourth. [2] The ships were reportedly destroyers, one of which was damaged by mortar fire - one legend suggests a mortar round fired by the infantry made its way down the smokestack of one of the ships.[citation needed] The ship's bell from one of the sunken vessels was recovered, and is located in the Officer's Mess of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) (RCAC).

Since World War Two, its soldiers have served throughout the world on numerous peacekeeping operations. Most recently, the LSSR has had several soldiers serve in Afghanistan. The regiment has lost one soldier, Cpl Anthony "T-Bone" Boneca on July 9, 2006 fighting Taliban insurgents during Operation Zahal ("sword") in Zhari District, Kandahar Province. [3]

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[edit] Regimental Information

Armoral Description

A maple leaf charged with a beaver, encircled by an annulus, inscribed THE LAKE SUPERIOR SCOTTISH REGIMENT and surmounted by the Crown; below a scroll inscribed INTER PERICULA INTREPIDI; on each side of the annulus, six maple leaves.

Official Abbreviation

Lake Sup Scot R

Motto

Inter Pericula Intrepidi (Fearless in the face of danger)

Tartan

MacGillivary

Authorized March

The Highland Laddie

[edit] Battle Honours

First World War

  • YPRES, 1915
  • YPRES, 1917
  • PASSCHENDAELE
  • Fustubert, 1915
  • AMIENS
  • MOUNT SORREL
  • Scarpe, 1918
  • SOMME, 1916
  • Drocourt-Queant
  • Flers-Courcelette
  • HINDENBURG LINE
  • Ancre Heights
  • Canal du Nord
  • Arras, 1917
  • Arras, 1918
  • CAMBRAI, 1918
  • VIMY, 1917
  • VALENCIENNES
  • HILL 70
  • France and Flanders, 1915-1918

Second World War

  • FALAISE
  • THE HOCHWALD
  • Falaise Road
  • Veen
  • The Laison
  • TWENTE CANAL
  • Chambois
  • FRIESOYTHE
  • THE SCHELDT
  • KUSTEN CANAL
  • THE LOWER MAAS
  • Bad Zwischenahn
  • THE RHINELAND
  • NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945

[edit] Perpetuated regiments

The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment perpetuates the following regiments:

  • The Provisional Battalion of Rifles
  • 96th District of Algoma Battalion of Rifles
  • 96th Algoma Rifles
  • 96th The Lake Superior Regiment
  • 52nd, 94th and 141st Battalions, CEF
  • The Lake Superior Regiment (Motor)


[edit] References

  1. ^ "Canadian Military Heritage" (Government of Canada site), CHAPTER 6 Turning Point – 1943, Into Holland.
  2. ^ History of the British Columbia Regiment, Department of National Defence web page
  3. ^ "Highlights: Death of Corporal Anthony Joseph Boneca on July 9, 2006"

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Alliances

[edit] Order of precedence

Preceded by:
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)		 The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment Succeeded by:
The North Saskatchewan Regiment


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