Approved for The Ottawa Highlanders (predecessor to the CH of O)
(G.O. 60 of 1933)

Perpetuates the 38th and 207th Battalions, Canadian Expeditionary Force.

38th Bn, C.E.F. - "Somme, 1916, Ancre Heights, Ancre, 1916, Arras, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Ypres, 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe, 1918, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, Sambre, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1916-18"
(G.O. No. 123 of 1929)

  VCs won by Capt T.W. MacDowell, DSO, on 9-13 April 1917 and by Pte C.J.P. Nunney, DCM, MM, on 1-2 September, 1918.

207th Bn, C.E.F. - 
"The Great War, 1917" 
(G.O. No. 123 of 1929)

The Ottawa Highlanders (predecessor to the CH of O)- "Mount Sorrel, Somme, 1916, Ancre Heights, Ancre, 1916, Arras, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Ypres, 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe, 1918, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, Sambre, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1916-18"
(G.O. No. 110 of 1929)

The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (M.G.) - "NORMANDY LANDING, CAEN, Carpiquet, The Orne, BOURGUEBUS RIDGE, Faubourg de Vaucelles, FALAISE, Quesnay Wood, The Laison, Boulogne 1944, THE SCHELDT, Breskens Pocket, THE RHINELAND, Waal Flats, The Hochwald, THE RHINE, Zutphen, Deventer, Leer, NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45
(Cdn Army Orders, Issue No. 564, 7 October 1957)