Battle Honours

26 Replies to “Battle Honours”

1. Excellent! These are Canadians to be proud of.
   The Fencibles, I hear, were particularly enthusiastic in this war.

2. fiddle “There wasn’t a Canada in 1812. It was British territory.”
   WTF are you talkin about Willis.
   If you looked on a map in 1812, just above the Great Lakes you would see the word “Canada.” That is the Canada you don’t think existed.
   If you don’t consider Canada to have existed until our independence in 1931, then we didn’t fight WWI either.

3. Battle honour to an artillery regiment? They just have one – ubique – “everywhere.” I’m sure it’s because they formerly were infantry and they won’t use it while they remain artillery.

4. One of my family received 200 acres of land from the King for his role in the 1812 Battle of Cryslers Farm. His offspring went on to become founding members of Queens University.

5. PS: At the time it was called The Canadas. Upper and Lower Canada.

6. fiddle at September 14, 2012 2:27 PM
   “One thing is for certain, the west would be much more developed had the British lost.”
   Probably not.
   The Dakotas, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana are probably indicative that that is nonsense.

7. “Battle honour to an artillery regiment? They just have one – ubique – ‘everywhere.’ I’m sure it’s because they formerly were infantry and they won’t use it while they remain artillery.”
   I agree that is likely 56 Fd gained this honour by virtue of perpetuating a former fencible/militia battalion.
   However, while it is true the Royal Canadian Artillery uses one battle honour – UBIQUE – a standard British practice our gunners share with the RA, RAA and RNZA, it is certainly possible for batteries within a regiment to bear the names of particular battles; 18 (Quebec 1759) Bty RA comes to mind right away.
   Mind you, it would not make sense to call one of 56 Fd’s batteries, say, 10 (Detroit) Bty unless that honour was actually earned by the battery.

8. Hey! Not so fast!
   You didn’t post the battle honours for Caledonia!

9. “You didn’t post the battle honours for Caledonia!”
   But we surrendered without a fight.

10. We should ignore “fiddle”‘s callow remarks; they demonstrate a singular sense of feeling for the history of our country.
    If, while we were those British colonies, the Americans had not been successfully repulsed, there would be no Canada.
    As for me, I intend to down a glass of port in honour of my family ancestors’ small part in it all as members of the Glengarry Light Infantry.
    God Save The King!

11. Oops! That should have read:
    “We should ignore ‘fiddle”s callow remarks; they demonstrate a singular LACK of feeling for the history of our country.”
    Guess I should lay off the port then.
    Or maybe not.

12. “But we surrendered without a fight.”
    Correction:
    Ontario surrendered without a fight. So no battle honour for the policepersons of the glorious OPP!

13. As an artillery officer I had not heard of the idea of naming batteries after battles. I think we should change the name of 68 Battery of the 15th Field Artillery Regiment, Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery to 68 (Archangel) Battery. Our Regimental museum actually has the medals from an individual who served in the Archangel campaign.

14. Hurray, 56th Field Artillery Regiment (RCA), Brantford. I have a picture of my brother and his face painted, machine gun carrying pals in the 56th hanging beside my desk.
    Thank you, to all our brave soldiers.

15. Good stuff. One correction. The Royal Canadian Regiment should probably not have the town of Petawawa behind it unless one is mailing somthing to either the First or Third battalions who are currently grrisoned at CFB Petawawa. The Second battalion is at CFB Gagetown NB and the fourth is in London ON.

16. Battle honour to an artillery regiment? They just have one – ubique – “everywhere.” I’m sure it’s because they formerly were infantry and they won’t use it while they remain artillery.
    Scar – when applied to the artillery “ubique” doesn’t mean everywhere, it means all over the place – a subtle distinction.
    “Anyway, kinda sad when there’s claim to fame for what was, basically, a civil war against brothers. All the same ancestry.” Fiddle – I could be wrong, but it is my understanding that this is the reason British regiments don’t have battle honours for the American Revolution – even for the battles that they won.

17. Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

18. re: DETROIT
    Can we get a do over?

19. Newfoundland helped defend Canada. Bet few Canadians or NLers knew that.

20. minuteman “Scar – when applied to the artillery “ubique” doesn’t mean everywhere, it means all over the place – a subtle distinction.”
    Talk about subtle distinction – when every dictionary looked at has “everywhere” as its first or only definition.

21. I believe minuteman may be a cbt engineer, how else to interpret his cheeky ‘ubique’. OTH he may have a point – not for nothing is 5RALC also known as ’rounds all-over la country’.

22. It is a known fact, taught to all students at the Schools of Armour, Infantry and Military Engineering, that the meaning of “Ubique” on the Artillery cap badge is ‘all over the place’. The safest place on the battlefield is the grid position you sent to the gunners in your request for a fire mission.
    Cheers

23. I’ve never been a sapper, but I was a zipperhead, and an EME.

24. I’ve never been a sapper, but I was a zipperhead, and an EME. I am a graduate of the Armour School at CFB Gagetown.

25. “The safest place on the battlefield is the grid position you sent to the gunners in your request for a fire mission.”
    Yep. Got it. Had nothing to do with arty. Normally when zipperhead gunners aimed at something, they hit it.

26. The Royal 22nd wasn’t even formed until the First World War. This is re-writing history. The units that deserved battle honours got them at the time.