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T.F.
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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
16.07.2006
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Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
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Regimental Crest
© DND |
Québec,
Canada 
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Note:
This
is a battalion history of the part-time Reserves, which are normally
liable for full-time active service only in an emergency
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1910.04.01 |
54th Regiment
(Carabiniers de Sherbrooke)
raised at Sherbrooke, PQ |
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1920.04.01 |
Les Carabiniers
de Sherbrooke |
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1920.06.15 |
reorganised
to perpetuate CEF: |
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- 1st Battalion, perpetuating 163rd
Battalion CEF
- 2nd (Reserve) Battalion
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1933.01.15 |
Les Fusiliers
de Sherbrooke |
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1940.05.20 |
elements
amalgamated with The
Sherbrooke Regiment, to form The
Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, CASF |
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1942.03.18 |
mobilised
battalion in CASF |
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1945.01.18 |
disbanded |
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1946.04.01 |
Les Fusiliers
de Sherbrooke
reconstituted in Militia |
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Deployment and Service: |
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War
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Overseas
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Home
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Biography
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Associations,
Forums and Re-Enactors: |
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The Great War: Amiens
The Second World War1:
Débarquement
de Normandie, Authie, Caen,
L'Orne, Crête de Bourgébus, Faubourg de Vaucelles, St-André-Sur-Orne,
Falaise, Route de La Falaise, Clair Tizon, La Laison, Anvers-Canal
de Turnout, L'Escaut, Meuse inférieure, La Rhénanie,
Le Hochwald, Xanten, Le Rhin, Emmerich-Hoch Elten,
Zutphen, Deventer, Nord-Ouest de l'Europe 1944-1945
1. awarded jointly 1957 and 1958 to The
Sherbrooke Regiment, and Les
Fusiliers de Sherbrooke, for services of 27th
Armoured Regiment (The Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment)
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Record of Colours: |
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Badges: |
Armorial 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. |
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Uniform: |
scarelt; facings:
blue |
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1942-1973 |
Col. J.S. Bourque, VD, CD, DCL, DSCF |
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1974-1980 |
Col. G. Côté, MBE, ED |
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1983-1996 |
Maj-Gen. J.J. Dunn, CMM, CD |
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1996-2001 |
Col. P.H. Massé, CD, ADC |
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2001- |
Brig-Gen. J.-L. Bombardier, CD |
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Motto: |
Droit au but |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
Quick: The
Queen City |
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