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'''The Royal Winnipeg Rifles''' are Canada's twenty- | '''The Royal Winnipeg Rifles''' are Canada's twenty-eighth most senior Reserve [[Infantry]] regiment, and comprises of one battalion serving as part of the Land Force Reserve. | ||
==Motto== | ==Motto== | ||
''Hosti Acie Nominati'' (Latin: Named by the enemy in battle) | ''Hosti Acie Nominati'' (Latin: Named by the enemy in battle) | ||
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The Royal Winnipeg Rifles are Canada's twenty-eighth most senior Reserve Infantry regiment, and comprises of one battalion serving as part of the Land Force Reserve.
Motto
Hosti Acie Nominati (Latin: Named by the enemy in battle)
Battle Honours (44)
Battle Honours presented in all caps are emblazoned on the Regimental Colour of each Battalion of the Regiment.
Early History
FISH CREEK
NORTH-WEST CANADA, 1885
BATOCHE
SOUTH AFRICA, 1899,1900
First World War
YPRES, 1915,'17
Arleux
Gravenstafel
HILL 70
St. Julien
PASSCHENDAELE
FESTUBERT, 1915
AMIENS
MOUNT SORREL
Scarpe, 1918
SOMME, 1916
DROCOURT-QUEANT
Thiepval
Hindenburg Line
Ancre Heights
CANAL DU NORD
Arras, 1917,18
Pursuit to Mons
VIMY, 1917
France and Flanders, 1915-18
Second World War
NORMANDY LANDING
THE SCHELDT
PUTOT-EN-BESSIN
LEOPOLD CANAL
Caen
Breskens Pocket
CARPIQUET
The Rhineland
The Orne
Waal Flats
Bourguebus Ridge
MOYLAND WOOD
FALAISE
THE RHINE
The Laison
Emmerich-Hoch Elten
The Seine, 1944
Deventer
CALAIS, 1944
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-45
