The South Alberta Light Horse

Highlighted Battle Honours are approved for emblazonment on the Regimental Guidon. Capitalized Battle Honours indicate the name of a group of battles, actions or engagements. Where common names but separate year dates created a combined battle honour title authorized as a single name for emblazonment, both have been highlighted.

Wars and Operations	Battle Honour	Date	Remarks
The North West Rebellion, 1885	North West Canada, 1885		Perpetuates the Rocky Mountain Rangers (1885) via the 23rd Alberta Rangers.
First World War
Local Operations, 1916. (Previous to the Allied Offensive)	Mount Sorrel	2-13 Jun 1916	Perpetuates the 22nd Battery C.F.A., the 12th and 13th Regiments, Canadian Mounted Rifles, and the 31st, 113rd, 175th and 187th Battalions, C.E.F. (G.O. 66 of 1920) (G.O. 28 of 1922) 22nd Battery C.F.A. 12th Regt, C.M.R. - " The Great War, 1915-16" (G.O. 123 of 1929) 13th Regt, C.M.R. - " The Great War, 1916" (G.O. 110 of 1929) 31st Bn, C.E.F. - Mount Sorrel, Somme, 1916, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval Ridge, Ancre Heights, Arras, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Arleux, Scarpe, 1917, Hill 70, Ypres, 1917, Passchendaele, Somme, 1918, Amiens, Scarpe, 1918, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai, 1918, Pursuit to Mons, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18 (G.O. 157 of 1921) (G.O. 110 of 1929) 113rd Bn, C.E.F. - "The Great War, 1916" (G.O. 110 of 1929) 175th Bn, C.E.F. - " The Great War, 1916-17" (G.O. 110 of 1929) 187th Bn, C.E.F. - " The Great War, 1916-17" (G.O. 110 of 1929) Battle honours for The Great War authorized for The South Alberta Regiment - " Mount Sorrel, Somme, 1916, '18, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, Arras, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Arleux, Scarpe, 1917, '18, Hill 70, Ypres, 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai, 1918, Pursuit to Mons, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18 (G.O. 110 of 1929)
Operations on the Somme. (1 Jul – 18 Nov, 1916)	Somme, 1916	1 Jul – 18 Nov 1916
	Flers-Courcelette	15-22 Sep 1916
	Thiepval Ridge	26-29 Sep 1916
	Ancre Heights	1 Oct – 11 Nov 1916
The Arras Offensive (9 Apr – 15 May, 1917	Arras, 1917	9 Apr – 4 May 1917
	Vimy, 1917	9-14 Apr 1917
	Arleux	28-29 Apr 1917
	Scarpe, 1917	3-4 May 1917
	Hill 70	15-25 Aug 1917
The Flanders Offensive (7 Jun – 10 Nov, 1917)	Ypres, 1917	31 Jul – 10 Nov. 1917
The Flanders Offensive (7 Jun – 10 Nov, 1917)	Passchendaele	12 Oct 1917, and or 26 Oct – 10 Nov 1917
The Offensive in Picardy (21 Mar – 5 Apr, 1918)	Somme, 1918	21 Mar – 5 Apr 1918
The Advance in Picardy (8 Aug – 3 Sep, 1918)	Amiens	8-11 Aug 1918
The Breaking of the Hindenburg Line (26 Aug – 12 Oct, 1918)	Arras, 1918	26 Aug – 3 Sep 1918
	Scarpe, 1918	26-30 Aug 1918
	Drocourt-Queant Line	2-3 Sep 1918
	Hindenburg Line, Battles of	12 Sep – 9 Oct 1918
	Canal du Nord	27 Sep – 2 Oct 1918
	Cambrai, 1918	8-9 Oct 1918
Picardy (17 Oct – 11 Nov).	Pursuit to Mons	11 Nov 1918
FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1914-18	FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18
Second World War
FALAISE	Falaise	7-22 Aug 44	The South Alberta Light Horse, perpetuating the 29th Armoured Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment) , was authorized Second World War battle honours by Canadian Army Orders 33-1 Issue No, 576, 30 Dec 1957. Maj D.V. Currie won the Victoria Cross 18-20 Aug 1944, while serving with the 29th Armoured Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment).
	Falaise Road	7-9 Aug 44
	The Laison	14-17 Aug 44
	St Lambert-sur-Dives	19-22 Aug 44
	Moerbrugge	8-10 Sep 44
THE SCHELDT	The Scheldt	1 Oct – 8 Nov 44
THE SCHELDT	Woensdrecht	1-27 Oct 44
	The Lower Maas	20 Oct – 7 Nov 44
	Kapelsche Veer	31 Dec 44 – 21 Jan 45
THE RHINELAND	The Rhineland	8 Feb - 10 Mar 45
	The Hochwald	26 Feb – 4 Mar 45
	Veen	6-10 Mar 45
	Twente Canal	2-4 Apr 45
	Bad Zwischenahn	23 Apr – 4 May 45
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-45	North-West Europe, 1944-1945

Semper Alacer

History of the Thirty-First Battalion, C.E.F.: from its organization, Nov 1914 to its demobilization, Jun 1919 / by Canada. Canadian Army. Battalion, 31st. - material compiled and assembled by H.C. Singer. Calgary: Knight, 1939

The Journal of Private Fraser: 1914-1918 Canadian Expeditionary Force / by Donald Fraser; edited and with an introduction by Reginald H. Roy. Victoria, B.C.: Sono Nis Press, 1985. 334 p

South Albertas: a Canadian regiment at war / by Donald E. Graves. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 1998. 408 p

The Regimental Rogue

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