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Resource material from the book:
UP The Glens Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders 1783 - 1994
Published in 1995 by:
'The Old Book Store’,
868 Montreal Road,
Cornwall, Ontario,
Canada,
(613) 933-7323 or (613) 525-2299
With permission to publish on the 13th day of April 1997, by
Brigadier General W.J. Patterson, OMM, CD
With acknowledgments to: Captain M.C. Eamer, CD,UE for the contribution of historical
images and advice.
The SDG Crest:
Superimposed upon a background of thistle, leaves and flowers the letters SDG;
below, a raven on a rock superimposed on a maple leaf. A half scroll to the left
of the maple leaf is inscribed DILEAS; another to the right inscribed GU BAS;
above, a semi-annulus inscribed GLENGARRY FENCIBLES and surmounted
by the Crown. The whole superimposed upon a St. Andrew’s cross,
The Motto:
Dileas Gu Bas (Faithful unto death)
Battle Honors of the SDG: (25)
First world war
Hill 70
YPRES, 1917
AMIENS
Arras, 1918
Hindenburgh line
PURSUITE TO MONS
Second World War
NORMANDY LANDING
CAEN
The Orne (Buron)
Bourguebus Ridge
Faubourg de Vaucelles
FALAISE
The Laison
Chambois
BOULOGE, 1944
THE SCHELDT
Savojaards Plaat
BRESKENS POCKET
THE RHINELAND
Wall Flats
THE HOCHWALD
THE RHINE
Zutphen
LEER
Northwest Europe, 1944-45
Authorized Quick March:
Regimental Camp Song of the First Battalion:
GLENGARRY, were the old S D & G
Regimental Headquarters:
Cornwall Armories; 505 Fourth Street East.
Cornwall, Ontario K6H 2J7
Victoria Cross Winner:
Sergeant Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney, VC, DCM, MM
Tartan:
Monuments, Plaques, Badges, Honour Rolls:
Glengarry Fencibles
Provincial Plaque at Cornwall Armoury
154th Battalion
Plaque and Honour Roll at Cornwall Armory
Monument in Alexandria, Glengarry County
1st Battalion
Plaque and Honour Roll at Cornwall Armory
Honour Roll at Brockville Armory
Plaque and Honour Roll at Royal Canadian
Legion Number 9, Kingston
Badge at Memorial Center, Peterborough
Badge on D-Day tank "Bold" at Courseulles, France
Plaque and Badge on Chateau de Paix de Coeur and
Monument at "Rue des Glengarrians", Les Buissons
Memorial Tablet at Abbaye d’Ardenne
Monument, Badge and Plaque at Avenue President
Coty and Rue d’Authie, Caen
Mannequin at Bayeux Memorial Museum of
The Battle of Normandy
Monument at "Place du Glens" at Urville
Plaque at Le Mairie
Plaque in the Hotel de Ville, Rouen
Plaque and Badge in the Citadel, Boulonge
Badge on Belgian Resistance Monument,
Knokke/Heist, Belgium
Plaque at Town Hall, Breskens, Netherlands
Plaque at Town Hall, Hoofdplaat
The 59th Bn Colours are laid up in the Officers Mess and
the 154th Colours are laid up in the Trinity Anglican Church, Second St, Cornwall, Ont.
Origin and Lineage:
59th Stormont and Glengarry Battalion of Infantry
3rd July 1868
59th Stormont and Glengarry Regiment
8th May 1900
Stormont Dundas & Glengarry Highlanders
15th February 1922
Stormont Dundas & Glengarry Highlanders (MG)
1st September 1954
Stormont Dundas & Glengarry Highlanders
1st August 1959
Perpetuation:
154th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Affiliated Cadet Corps:
No. 57 RCAC, Vankleek Hill
No. 2403 RCAC, Cornwall
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