Battle Honours of the Canadian Army
The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC)
Highlighted Battle Honours are approved for emblazonment on the Regimental Guidon. Capitalized Battle Honours indicate the name of a group of battles, actions or engagements. Where common names but separate year dates created a combined battle honour title authorized as a single name for emblazonment, both have been highlighted.
| Wars and Operations | Battle Honour | Date | Remarks |
| First World War | |||
| Summer Operations, 1915. (Mar-Oct) | Ypres, 1915 | 22 Apr – 25 May 1915 |
Perpetuates the 50th, 89th, and 137th Battalions, C.E.F. (1914-1919), and the 13th Machine Gun Battalion, C.M.G.C. (1919-1936).
50th Bn C.E.F. - Somme, 1916, Ancre Heights, Ancre, 1916, Arras, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Hill 70, Ypres, 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe, 1918, Drocourt-Queant Line, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1916-18
89th Bn C.E.F. -
137th Bn C.E.F.-
13th Machine Gun Bn, C.M.G.C. Great War battle honours authorized for "The Calgary Regiment" - "Ypres, 1915, '17, Festubert, 1915, Mount Sorrel, Somme, 1916, Ancre Heights, Ancre, 1916, Arras, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe, 1918, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18" |
Festubert, 1915 | 15-25 May 1915 | ||
| Local Operations, 1916. (Previous to the Allied Offensive) | Mount Sorrel | 2-13 Jun 1916 | |
| Operations on the Somme. (1 Jul – 18 Nov, 1916) | Somme, 1916 | 1 Jul – 18 Nov 1916 | |
Ancre Heights | 1 Oct – 11 Nov 1916 | ||
Ancre, 1916 | 13-18 Nov 1916 | ||
| The Arras Offensive (9 Apr – 15 May, 1917 | Arras, 1917 | 9 Apr – 4 May 1917 | |
Vimy, 1917 | 9-14 Apr 1917 | ||
Hill 70 | 15-25 Aug 1917 | ||
| The Flanders Offensive (7 Jun – 10 Nov, 1917) | Ypres, 1917 | 31 Jul – 10 Nov. 1917 | |
Passchendaele | 12 Oct 1917 and/or 26 Oct – 10 Nov 1917 | ||
| The Advance in Picardy (8 Aug – 3 Sep, 1918) | Amiens | 8-11 Aug 1918 | |
| The Breaking of the Hindenburg Line (26 Aug – 12 Oct, 1918) | Arras, 1918 | 26 Aug – 3 Sep 1918 | |
Scarpe, 1918 | 26-30 Aug 1918 | ||
Drocourt-Queant Line | 2-3 Sep 1918 | ||
Hindenburg Line, Battles of the | 12 Sep – 9 Oct 1918 | ||
Canal du Nord | 27 Sep – 2 Oct 1918 | ||
| Picardy (17 Oct – 11 Nov) | Valenciennes | 1-2 Nov 1918 | |
FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18 | |||
| Second World War | |||
| NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1940-42 | Dieppe | 19 Aug 1942 |
The regiment's Second World War service saw a number of changes to the regimental designation, during the period 1942-46, it was the "14th Armoured Regiment (Calgary Regiment)"
Second World War battle honours authorized for The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) in Part "A", Supplement to Canadian Army Orders, issue No. 648, 10 Aug 1959. |
North-West Europe 1942 | |||
| SICILY 1943 | Sicily 1943 | 9 Jul 43 – 17 Aug 43 | |
Motta Montecorvino | 1-3 Oct 43 | ||
San Leonardo | 8-9 Dec 43 | ||
The Gully | 10-19 Dec 43 | ||
| CASSINO II | Cassino II | 11-18 May 44 | |
Gustav Line | 11-18 May 44 | ||
Pignataro | 14-15 May 44 | ||
| LIRI VALLEY | Liri Valley | 18-30 May 44 | |
Aquino | 18-24 May 44 | ||
| TRASIMENE LINE | Trasimene Line | 20-30 Jun 44 | |
| AREZZO | Arezzo | 4-17 Jul 443 | |
| ADVANCE TO FLORENCE | Advance to Florence | ||
Cerrone | 25-31 Aug 44 | ||
| ITALY 1943-45 | Italy 1943-45 | 3 Sep 43 – 22 Apr 45 | |
| NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1945 | North-West Europe 1945 | ||
| South-West Asia | |||
| South-West Asia | Afghanistan | Announced 9 May 2014 | |
Onward
The 50th Battalion in No Man's Land / by Victor W. Wheeler. Calgary: Comprint Publishing Co., for the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation, 1980. 447 p
A Legacy of courage: "Calgary's own" 137th Overseas Battalion, C.E.F. / by Fred Bagley. Calgary: Plug Street Books, 1993. 260 p.
The Calgary Regiment (14 CAR) / by R.G. Maltby. Hilversum, Holland: De Jong, 1945Welcome home: 14th C.A.(T.) R.: Calgary Regiment (Tank). Calgary, 1945-1983.
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