Battle Honours
The battle honours of 8 Recce are as follows. The capitalized honours appear on the regimental guidon.
- CAEN (July 6–18, 1944)
- FALAISE (August 7–22, 1944)
- Falaise Road (August 7–9, 1944)
- Clair Tizon (August 11 and 13, 1944)
- The Laison (August 14–17, 1944)
- THE SEINE, 1944 (August 25–28, 1944)
- ANTWERP–TURNHOUT CANAL (September 24–29, 1944)
- THE SCHELDT (October 1 – November 8, 1944)
- Woensdrecht (October 1–27, 1944)
- SOUTH BEVELAND (October 24–31, 1944)
- The Rhineland (February 8 – March 10, 1945)
- TWENTE CANAL (April 2–4, 1945)
- GRONINGEN (April 13–16, 1945)
- OLDENBURG (April 27 – May 4, 1945)
- NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944–1945
Read more about this topic: 8th Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars)
Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or honours:
“Forty years after a battle it is easy for a noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to have to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)