Battle Honours of the Canadian Army

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada
(Princess Louise's)

Highlighted Battle Honours are approved for emblazonment on the Regimental Colour. 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
First World War
Local Operations, 1916. (Previous to the Allied Offensive)	Mount Sorrel	2-13 June 1916	Perpetuates the 19th and 173rd Battalions, and the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, and the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, CMGC, 1919-1936. 19th Bn, C.E.F.- "Mount Sorrel, Somme, 1916, '18, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, Arras, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Hill 70, Ypres, 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe, 1918, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai, 1918, Pursuit to Mons, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18" (G.O. No. 110 of 1929) 173rd Bn, C.E.F.- "The Great War, 1916-17" (G.O. 123 of 1929) 3rd M.G. Bn, C.E.F. - "Amiens, Arras, 1918, Scarpe, 1918, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai, 1918, Pursuit to Mons, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1918" (G.O. No. 123 of 1929) VC won by Lt H. McKenzie, DCM, on 30 October 1917. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) - "Mount Sorrel, Somme, 1916, '18, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, Arras, 1917, '18, Vimy, 1917, Hill 70, Ypres, 1917, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe, 1918, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai, 1918, Pursuit to Mons, FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18" (G.O. No. 110 of 1929)
Operations on the Somme. (1 July – 18 November, 1916)	Somme, 1916	1 July – 18 November 1916
	Flers-Courcelette	15-22 September 1916
	Thiepval Ridge	26-29 September 1916
	Ancre Heights	1 October – 11 November 1916
The Arras Offensive (9 April – 15 May, 1917	Arras, 1917	9 April – 4 May 1917
	Vimy, 1917	9-14 April 1917
	Hill 70	15-25 August 1917
The Flanders Offensive (7 June – 10 November, 1917)	Ypres, 1917	31 July – 10 Nov. 1917
The Flanders Offensive (7 June – 10 November, 1917)	Passchendaele	12 October 1917 and/or 26 October – 10 November 1917
The Offensive in Picardy (21 March – 5 April, 1918)	Somme, 1918	21 March – 5 April 1918
The Advance in Picardy (8 August – 3 September, 1918)	Amiens	8-11 August 1918
The Breaking of the Hindenburg Line (26 August – 12 October, 1918)	Arras, 1918	26 August – 3 September 1918
	Scarpe, 1918	26-30 August 1918
	Drocourt-Queant Line	2-3 September 1918
	Hindenburg Line, Battles of	12 September – 9 October 1918
	Canal du Nord	27 September – 2 October 1918
	Cambrai, 1918	8-9 October 1918
Picardy (17 October – 11 November)	Pursuit to Mons	11 November 1918
FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1914-18	FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18
Second World War
FALAISE	FALAISE	7-22 Aug 44
	Falaise Road	7-9 Aug 44
	St Lambert-sur-Dives	19-22 Aug 44
	The Seine, 1944	25-28 Aug 44
	Moerbrugge	8-10 Sep 44
THE SCHELDT	THE SCHELDT	1 Oct – 8 Nov 44
THE SCHELDT	Breskens Pocket	11 Oct – 3 Nov 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
	Friesoythe	14 Apr 45
	Kusten Canal	17-24 Apr 45
	Bad Zwischenahn	23 Apr – 4 May 45
NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45	NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45	6 Jun 44 – 5 May 45
South-West Asia
South-West Asia	Afghanistan		Announced 9 May 2014

Albainn Gu-Brath

Histories:

Black yesterdays: the Argylls' war / by Robert L. Fraser. Hamilton, Ont.: Argyll Regimental Foundation, 1996. 608 p.
It Can't Last Forever; The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War / by David Campbell. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, October 2017.

Battle Honours of the Canadian Army

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)

Histories:

Infantry Corps Units:in Order of Precedence

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada
(Princess Louise's)

Infantry Corps Units:
in Order of Precedence