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Winnipeg Grenadiers (2,588 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Winnipeg Grenadiers was an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. First formed on 1 April 1908 under General Order No. 20. Initially it was raised

C Force (7,821 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

major Canadian units involved in the defence of Hong Kong were the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada. In addition to this the Canadians

Battle of Hong Kong (10,241 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

battalion of the Royal Rifles of Canada (from Quebec) and one of the Winnipeg Grenadiers (from Manitoba) and a brigade headquarters (1,975 personnel) to

Mount Butler (363 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

World War II. On the slopes of Mount Butler, John Robert Osborn of the Winnipeg Grenadiers won the Victoria Cross for his gallantry and sacrifice during the

13th Canadian Infantry Brigade (436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Canadian Fusiliers (City of London) Regiment 1st Battalion, The Winnipeg Grenadiers 1st Battalion, The Rocky Mountain Rangers 1st Battalion, Le Regiment

Gander (dog) (590 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Royal Rifles of Canada, engaged the enemy as his regiment joined The Winnipeg Grenadiers, members of Battalion Headquarters "C" Force and other Commonwealth

Canadian Armed Forces order of precedence (677 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Royal Rifles of Canada The Perth Regiment Le Régiment de Joliette The Winnipeg Grenadiers The South Saskatchewan Regiment The Yukon Regiment Canada portal

Wong Nai Chung Gap (564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nai Chung Gap area included defenders of the Middlesex Regiment, The Winnipeg Grenadiers and the HKVDC. Canadian Army Brigadier John K. Lawson was present

Operation Cottage (757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kiska. Canadian regiments landed included the Canadian Fusiliers; the Winnipeg Grenadiers; the Rocky Mountain Rangers; and the Saint John Fusiliers. The

George Porteous (525 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on to Canada to train others. In 1941 Porteous was posted with the Winnipeg Grenadiers to Hong Kong, to reinforce the British garrison. The regiment arrived

They Met in Bombay (1,231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Chinese refugees. Gerald vows to protect them and calls up the Winnipeg Grenadiers to form a barrier between the Japanese and the Chinese evacuees

Louis Deniset (308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Régiment and from 1954 to 1957 he served as a lieutenant-colonel of the Winnipeg Grenadiers. Having married Jeanne Remillard in April 1951, Deniset returned

Kowloon East Barracks (420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for Canadian Army Company Sergeant Major John Robert Osborn of the Winnipeg Grenadiers. Osborn was a British-born Canadian who died defending Hong Kong

Supplementary Order of Battle (1,257 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

History and Heritage. October 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2011. "The Winnipeg Grenadiers". Official Lineages: Volume 3, Part 2: Infantry Regiments. Directorate

St. Vital Victorias (386 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Osborn settled in St. Vital and served with the 1st Battalion of the Winnipeg Grenadiers in World War II. On September 19, 1941, during an attack against

Stanley Military Cemetery (842 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

died after the British surrender. Graves of Pvt. J. Maltese of the Winnipeg Grenadiers and Rifleman A.M. Moir of the Royal Rifles of Canada. Both battalions

Anna May Waters (1,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kathleen Christie sailed aboard the HMT Awatea for Hong Kong with the Winnipeg Grenadiers. After stops in Honolulu and Manila the ship arrived in Kong Kong

Central Ordnance Munitions Depot (1,754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Corps, and Royal Engineers. There were also five soldiers from the Winnipeg Grenadiers; 14 local Chinese uniformed soldiers of the Hong Kong Volunteer

Grenadier (5,176 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Regiment of Canada with tradition surviving in a grenadier company. The Winnipeg Grenadiers was one of the 2 Canadian infantry regiments of C Force that took

2nd Canadian Division during World War II (4,939 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reassigned to the newly mobilized 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were sent to Jamaica for garrison duty, after which they returned

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (5,535 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fortress colony of Bermuda in August, 1940, replacing a company of the Winnipeg Grenadiers. When the deposed King Carol II of Romania arrived in Bermuda in

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) (4,645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

this period, the reality of war was brought home by the fate of the Winnipeg Grenadiers (which unit the Argylls replaced in Jamaica) in Hong Kong, and

Régiment de Hull (3,675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

comprising, in addition to Le Régiment de Hull, the Canadian Fusiliers, the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers. "D" Day for Kiska was set for August

History of the Scots Guards (1914–1945) (3,448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

returning home in 1929. In 1933, the regiment formed an alliance with the Winnipeg Grenadiers of Canada. In 1935, it was the 1st Battalion's turn to be deployed

History of the Scots Guards (1946–present) (4,007 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

came to an end, ending an alliance that had existed since 1933. The Winnipeg Grenadiers would disband the following year. In late 1964 the 1st Battalion

Harry Crerar (8,357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Canadian Division, which was forming in Canada, Crerar chose to send the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada, which had been on garrison duty