Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 30.11.2004
 

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
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: Bourgebus Ridge, Faubourg de Vaucelles, Verrières Ridge-Tilly la Campagne, Falaise, Falaise Road, Clair Tizon, Forêt de la Londe, Dunkirk 1944, Wyneghem, Antwer-Turnhout Canal, The Scheldt, Woensdrecht, South Beveland, Walcheren Causeway, The Rhineland, The Reichswald, The Hochwald, Xanten, The Rhine, Groningen, Oldenburg, North-West Europe 1944-45
  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.
Uniform: tartan: Government (kilts - all ranks, pipers & drummers; plaids)
   
   
     
   
  Colonel-in-Chief
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:
  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: