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the regimental motto is ''Non Nobis Sed Patriæ'', "Not for ourselves but for our country".

The regiment has twenty-six battle honours, fourteen of which (italicized) are emblazoned on the Regimental Colours:

First World War

  • ''Ypres, 1915, '17''

  • Festubert, 1915

  • ''Somme, 1916''

  • ''Arras, 1917, '18''

  • Hill 70

  • ''Amiens''

  • Hindenburg Line

  • ''Pursuit to Mons''




Second World War

  • ''Falaise''

  • Falaise Road

  • ''The Laison''

  • Chambois

  • The Seine, 1944

  • ''Moerbrugge''

  • ''The Scheldt''

  • Breskens Pocket

  • ''The Lower Maas''

  • ''Kapelsche Veer''

  • ''The Rheneland''

  • ''The Hochwald''

  • Veen

  • ''Twente Canal''

  • Friesoythe

  • Küsten Canal

  • Bad Zwischenahn

  • ''North-West Europe'', 1944-1945



Allied regiments include the Royal Anglian Regiment (UK), the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (UK),
the Bermuda Regiment, the Royal Queensland Regiment (Aus), and the Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay Regiment (NZ). The regiment is also connected with cadet corps in St. Catharines and Fonthill, and with Robert Land Academy in Wellandport.

The website British Regiments.org reports its lineage as from Butler's Rangers 1777-1784


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