Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke

Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke is a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Forces. It is based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, with a sub-unit in Granby.

Armourial description

A grenade with the Crown superimposed upon the ball within an annulus inscribed "Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke", surmounted by a beaver and super-imposed upon a maple leaf; the whole resting on a scroll inscribed "Droit au but".

Regimental names

*1910: Raised as the 54th Regiment (Carabiniers de Sherbrooke)
*1920: Les Carabiniers de Sherbrooke
*1920: Reorganised into two battalions; 1st Battalion (Perpetuating 163rd (Canadien-Français) Battalion, CEF) and 2nd (Reserve) Battalion
*1933: Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
*1940: Amalgamated with The Sherbrooke Regiment, to form The Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, CASF
*1945: Disbanded
*1946: Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke (Reconstitued as Militia)

Battle honours

*First World War: Amiens
*Second World War: Débarquement de Normandie (D-Day), Authie, Caen, L'Orne, Crête de Bourgébus, Faubourg de Vaucelles, St-André-Sur-Orne, Falaise, Route de La Falaise, Clair Tizon, La Liaison, Anvers-Canal de Turnout, L'Escaut, Meuse inférieure, La Rhénanie, Le Hochwald, Xanten, Le Rhin, Emmerich-Holen Elton, Zutphen, Deventer

Alliances

*GBR - The Rifles

External links

* [http://www.regiments.org/regiments/na-Canada/volmil/qc-inf/054FusSb.htm regiments.org]

Order of precedence