The Calgary Highlanders [Canada]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 13.07.2006

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	The Calgary Highlanders
Regimental Crest © DND	Alberta, Canada


Titles & Lineage History & War Service Battle Honours Colours, Standards and Guidons Badges and Uniforms	Colonel-in-Chief Honorary Colonels Traditions Alliances Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time Reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency

How to find information about individuals who served in this corps

Titles and Lineage

Alphabetic Index of Titles
Numeric Index of Titles


	1924.05.15	The Calgary Highlanders formed with HQ at Calgary, Alta., from The Calgary Regiment* and reorganising its CEF perpetuations:*
		1st Battalion, redesignation of 1st Bn, The Calgary Regt, perpetuating 10th Battalion CEF 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 56th Battalion CEF 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, redesignation of 4th Bn, The Calgary Regt, perpetuating 82nd Battalion CEF

History (Links) & War Service

Introduction to Regiments


		The Calgary Highlanders (Army site)
		The Calgary Highlanders (Regimental site)
		The Calgary Highlanders, by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
		The Calgary Highlanders, by Michael A. Dorosh
		The Calgary Highlanders (A&SH Museum, UK)
		2nd Battalion, The Calgary Highlanders [1940-1946], by Michael A. Dorosh

	*Cadets:*
		2137 RCAC

Deployment and Service:

Colour Key:

War service

Overseas service

Home service


	*Biography and Gallantry Awards:*
		Calgary Highlanders Fatal Casualties, Second World War, by Michael A. Dorosh.

	*Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:*
		The Calgary Highlanders Heritage Section [WW2], by Michael Dorosh and Kevin Winfield.

	*Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:*
		Regimental Museum, Calgary (Regimental site)
		The Calgary Highlanders, Calgary, AB (Museum of the Regiments)

Battle Honours

Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars


	The Great War: The Second World War: Bourguébus Ridge, Faubourg de Vaucelles, Verrières Ridge-Tilly la Campagne, Falaise, Falaise Road, Clair Tizon, Forêt de la Londe, Dunkirk 1944, Wyneghem, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, The Scheldt, Woensdrecht, South Beveland, Walcheren Causeway, The Rhineland, The Reichswald, The Hochwald, Xanten, The Rhine, Groningen, Oldenburg, North-West Europe 1944-1945


	Battle Honours, by Michael A. Dorosh.

Colours, Standards and Guidons

Introduction to Colours


	Record of Colours:

Uniforms and Badges

Badges:

Armorial Description: Upon sprays of thistle, a St Andrew's Cross, on the centre of the Cross a beaver on a log encircled by a wreath of maple leaves; below the beaver, on the wreath a scroll emblazoned with thistles, placed above a scroll inscribed with the unit designation CALGARY HIGHLANDERS; above the wreath upon the upper arms of the Cross a scroll emblazoned with thistles and on the centre, between the upper arms of the Cross, the Crown.

Regimental Insignia, by Michael A. Dorosh.

Uniform:

tartan: Government (kilts - all ranks, pipers & drummers; plaids)

Colonel-in-Chief

Index of Royal Colonels


	1981	HM Queen Elizabeth II

Honorary Colonels



		Samuel Clarence Nickle
	1971	Col. Sam C. Nickle
	1986

Traditions


	Motto:	Airaghardt
	Nicknames:
	Anniversaries:
	Freedoms:
	Marches:	Quick: The Highland Laddie and All the Blue Bonnets are over the Border
	Musicians:
	*Mascot:*
	*Miscellaneous Tradition Links:*
	Traditions, by Michael A. Dorosh Mascots, by Michael A. Dorosh

Alliances

Introduction to Alliances


		The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)	1925-present

Bibliography

How To Find Books


	Regimental Journal:


	Full Histories:


	Short Histories:


	First World War:
		[see perpetuated CEF battalions]

	Second World War: