Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke is a
Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the
Canadian Forces.
It is based in
Sherbrooke
, Quebec
, with a
sub-unit in Granby
.
Armourial 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.
Regimental names
- 1910: Raised as the 54th Regiment (Carabiniers de
Sherbrooke)
- 1920: Les Carabiniers de Sherbrooke
- 1920: Reorganised into two battalions; 1st Battalion
(Perpetuating 163rd Battalion,
CEF) and 2nd (Reserve) Battalion
- 1933: Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
- 1940: Amalgamated with The
Sherbrooke Regiment, to form The Sherbrooke Fusiliers
Regiment, CASF
- 1945: Disbanded
- 1946: Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
(Reconstitued as Militia)
Battle honours
- First
World War: Amiens
- Second
World War: Débarquement de Normandie (D-Day),
Authie, Caen
, L'Orne, Crête
de Bourgébus, Faubourg de
Vaucelles, St-André-Sur-Orne
, Falaise, Route de La Falaise, Clair Tizon, La
Liaison, Anvers-Canal de
Turnout, L'Escaut
, Meuse inférieure, La Rhénanie, Le
Hochwald, Xanten
, Le Rhin, Emmerich-Holen Elton, Zutphen
, Deventer
Alliances
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Order of precedence
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