Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 15 October 2000. Corrected and updated 20.03.2005
 

Le Régiment de Maisonneuve

Regimental Crest
© DND
Québec, 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
1880.06.04 85th Battalion of Infantry
formed with HQ at Montréal, PQ
 
  • No. 1 Company at St. Jérôme; moved 1 July 1898 to Maisonneuve
  • No. 2 Company at St. Jean Baptiste
  • No. 3 Company at Laprairie, redesignation of No. 5 Coy, 21st Battalion; moved 20 July 1893 to Longueuil; moved 1 July 1898 to St. Henri de Montréal
  • No. 4 Company at Laprairie; moved 12 Oct. 1896 to St. Henri
  • No. 5 Company at Côté de St. Paul
  • No. 6 Company at Longueuil; moved later to St. Cunégonde
1900.05.08 85th Regiment
1902.07.01 No. 7 Company formed at Ville St. Louis, No. 8 Company formed at DeLorimier
1920.04.01 Le Régiment de Maisonneuve
1921.03.15 reorganised to perpetuate CEF:
 
  • 1st Battalion, perpetuating 206th Battalion CEF
  • 2nd (Reserve) Battalion
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
Le Régiment de Maisonneuve (Army site)
Le Régiment de Maisonneuve, by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
Deployment and Service:
 
Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
       
     
       
       
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

The Great War:

The Second World War: Bourgebus Ridge, Faubourg de Vaucelles, Maltot, Verrières Ridge-Tilly la Campagne, Falaise, Falaise Road, Forêt de le Londe, Dunkirk 1944, Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, The Scheldt, Woensdrecht, South Beveland, Walcheren Causeway, The Rhineland, The Reichswald, The Hochwald, Xanten, Groningen, Oldenburg, North-West Europe 1944-45

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges: Armorial Description: Within a wreath of maple leaves tied at the bottom with a bow and surmounted by the Crown, a fleur-de-lis. On the fleur-de-lis, the arms of Paul Chomedy de Maisonneuve (argent, three torches, gules) surrounded by a Garter inscribed LE REGIMENT DE MAISONNEUVE. Across the bottom of the wreath a scroll inscribed with the motto BON COEUR ET BON BRAS.
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  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
     
  Honorary Colonels
     
  Traditions
 
Motto: Bon coeur et bon bras (adopted 1880)
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  Alliances Introduction to Alliances

The King's Shropshire Light Infantry

1941-1968
1968-
  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
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