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North-West Europe 1944–1945 is a battle honour (more properly known as an honorary distinction)^[1] earned by regiments of the British Commonwealth forces during the Second World War that took part in the actions of the northern part of the war's Western Front. The battle honour North-West Europe is suffixed with the year, or years, in which the awarded unit took part in the action.^[2]

It refers to the land campaign starting with the 6th June landingsinNormandy and ended with Field Marshal Montgomery taking the German military surrender of all German forces in the Netherlands, Northwest Germany and Denmark on Lüneburg Heath in Northwest Germany. The campaign was conducted by Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, of which the British 21st Army Group was a component, along with the American 12th and 6th Army Groups. Together, the three army groups comprised the Allied effort on the Western Front which at its longest stretched from the North Sea to Switzerland.

The battle honours for the Second World War were not awarded until 1957/58 by which point some units had amalgamated or been disbanded.

List of units

The following units were awarded the battle honour,

Canadian regiments

The Toronto Scottish Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
The Royal Regiment of Canada (1944–1945)^[2]
The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (1944–1945)^[2]
The Essex Scottish Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal (1944–1945)^[2]
The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada (1944–1945)^[2]
The South Saskatchewan Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
14th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Calgary Regiment) (1945)^[2]
The Elgin Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
The Royal Montreal Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) (1944–1945)^[2]
12th Manitoba Dragoons (1944–1945)^[2]
8th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) (1944–1945)^[2]
7th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars) (1944–1945)^[2]
The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (1944–1945)^[2]
29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment) (1944–1945)^[2]
The New Brunswick Rangers (1944–1945)^[2]
The Lake Superior Regiment (Motor) (1944–1945)^[2]
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (1944–1945)^[2]
Le Régiment de Maisonneuve (1944–1945)^[2]
The Calgary Highlanders (1944–1945)^[2]
The Royal Winnipeg Rifles (1944–1945)^[2]
The Regina Rifle Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
The Canadian Scottish Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (1944–1945)^[2]
Le Régiment de la Chaudière (1944–1945)^[2]
The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
The Highland Light Infantry of Canada (1944–1945)^[2]
The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders (1944–1945)^[2]
The North Nova Scotia Highlanders (1944–1945)^[2]
The Lincoln and Welland Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
The Algonquin Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) (1944–1945)^[2]
6th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) (1944–1945)^[2]
10th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Fort Garry Horse) (1944–1945)^[2]
27th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment) (1944–1945)^[2]
21st Armoured Regiment (The Governor General's Foot Guards) (1944–1945)^[2]
22nd Armoured Regiment (The Grenadier Guards) (1944–1945)^[2]
28th Armoured Regiment (The British Columbia Regiment) (1944–1945)^[2]
1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment (1944–1945)^[2]
1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (1944–1945)^[2]
1st Armoured Car Regiment (Royal Canadian Dragoons) (1945)^[2]
4th Reconnaissance Regiment (4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards) (1945)^[2]
The Saskatoon Light Infantry (1945)^[2]
3rd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The Governor General's Horse Guards) (1945)^[2]
The Westminster Regiment (Motor) (1945)^[2]
The Princess Louise Fusiliers (1945)^[2]
The Royal Canadian Regiment (1945)^[2]
48th Highlanders of Canada (1945)^[2]
The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (1945)^[2]
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (1945)^[2]
The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (1945)^[2]
The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (1945)^[2]
Royal 22e Regiment (1945)^[2]
The Carleton and York Regiment (1945)^[2]
The West Nova Scotia Regiment (1945)^[2]
The Perth Regiment (1945)^[2]
The Cape Breton Highlanders (1945)^[2]
The Irish Regiment of Canada (1945)^[2]
11th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Ontario Regiment) (1945)^[2]
12th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Three Rivers Regiment) (1945)^[2]
2nd Armoured Regiment (Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)) (1945)^[2]
5th Armoured Regiment (8th Princess Louise's (New Brunswick) Hussars) (1945)^[2]
9th Armoured Regiment (The British Columbia Dragoons) (1945)^[2]

US-Canadian forces

First Special Service Force (1944)^[2]

British regiments

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2019)

Honourable Artillery Company (1944–1945)^[3]
Royal Norfolk Regiment (1944-45)^{[citation needed]}
East Lancashire Regiment (1944–1945)^[4]
South Lancashire Regiment (1944–1945)^[4]
Suffolk Regiment^{[citation needed]}
Coldstream Guards (1944–1945)^[5]
Irish Guards^{[citation needed]}
Grenadier Guards (1944–1945)^[1]
Welsh Guards^{[citation needed]}
3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)^{[citation needed]}
Duke of Wellington's Regiment (1944–1945)^[6]
Parachute Regiment (1944–1945)^[7]
South Staffordshire Regiment (1944)^[8]
Army Commandos (1942–1944), in the form of honours granted to the Commandos Association.^[9]
Manchester Regiment (New 1st Battalion) (1944–1945)^[10]
Gloucestershire Regiment (1944–1945)^[11]
Life Guards
Royal Horse Guards

References

^ ^a ^b Honorary Distinctions or Battle Honours, Grenadier Guards Association, East Kent Branch, accessed and archived 21 July 2019.

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^ Battle Honours, Honourable Artillery Company, accessed and archived 29 June 2019.

^ ^a ^b Battle Honours, Lancashire Infantry Museum, accessed and archived 30 June 2019.

^ Lewis Pearce, "Battle honours", appx. A in, Julian Paget, Second to None: The History of the Coldstream Guards 1650 2000, Pen and Sword, 2000 ISBN 9781783379392.

^ Regimental Battle Honours, The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding) Regimental Association, accessed and archived 21 July 2019.

^ Battle Honours, Airborne Assault: ParaData, accessed 21 July 2019 and archived 29 June 2019.

^ Battle honours of the Staffordshire Regiment, The Staffordshire Regiment Museum, accessed and archived 22 July 2019.

^ Major James Dunning, A brief history of the Army Commandos (1939-1945), accessed and archived 22 July 2019.

^ Museum of the Manchester Regiment: Battle Honours of The Manchester Regiment, Tameside Metropolitan Borough, accessed and archived 24 July 2019.

^ Battle Honours The Gloucestershire Regiment 28th LXI, accessed 9 August 2019 and archived 31 August 2018.

Baker, Anthony Battle Honours of the British and Commonwealth Armies 1986. Ian Allen Publishing ISBN 978-0711016002

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