Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 15.06.2005
 
 

The Highland Light Infantry
of Canada
 
Ontario, 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
  1851 Galt Rifle Company
  1857 Waterloo Militia
independent companies
1866.09.14 29th Waterloo Battalion of Infantry
formed by regimentation of five independent companies
1900.05.08 29th Waterloo Regiment
1912 HQ established at Galt, Ont.
1915.04.15 29th Regiment (Highland Light Infantry of Canada)
1920.04.01 The Highland Light Infantry of Canada
reconstituted in Militia with HQ at Galt
1920.09.15 reorganised to perpetuate CEF:
 
  • 1st Battalion, perpetuating 34th Battalion CEF
    • A Company at Galt
    • B Company at Galt
    • C Company at Galt
    • D Company at Preston
  • 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 111th Battalion CEF
1954.10.01 amalgamated with The Perth Regiment, to form The Perth and Waterloo Regiment (Highland Light Infantry of Canada)
1957.04.01 The Highland Light Infantry of Canada
formed with HQ at Galt, Ont., by unamalgamation
1965.02.26 amalgamated with The Scots Fusiliers of Canada, to form The Highland Fusiliers of Canada
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
History:
[no external sites have been found]
Deployment and Service:
 
Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
       
     
       
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external sites have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada Historical Section [HLI-WW2; Ontario]
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
HLI Monument, Buron, France [no website found]
  Battle Honours

The Great War1:

The Second World War: Normandy Landing, Caen, The Orne (Buron), Bourguébus Ridge, Faubourg de Vaucelles, Falaise, The Laison, Chambois, Boulogne 1944, Calais 1944, The Scheldt, Savojaards Plaat, Breskens Pocket, The Rhineland, Waal Flats, The Hochwald, The Rhine, Zutphen, Leer, North-West Europe 1944-1945

1. awarded for services of 11th Battalion CEF and 34th Battalion CEF
  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges: Centred on the Star of the Order of the Thistle a horn ensigned by the Crown, in the centre of the horn a maple leaf bearing the monogram HLI; below the horn a scroll inscribed with the motto DEFENCE NOT DEFIANCE; below the scroll a beaver.
Uniform: tartan: Mackenzie (kilt, 1935-1965)
   
   
     
   
  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
1949.12.12 HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, CI, GCVO
  Honorary Colonels
  Traditions
 
Motto: Defence not defiance
Nicknames:
Anniversaries:
Freedoms:
Marches: Band: Whistle o'er the lave o't
  Pipes: Seann tribuhas
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances Introduction to Alliances

The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment)

1920-1959
The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) 1959-1965
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
 
Full Histories:
Bartlett, Jack Fortune. 1st Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry of Canada, 1940-1945. Galt, Ont. : HLI of Canada Association, 1951.
Snowie, J. Allan. Bloody Buron. Erin, Ont. : The Boston Mills Press, 1984.