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* [[The Elgin Regiment]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
* [[The Elgin Regiment]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
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* [[The Royal Montreal Regiment]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
* [[The Royal Montreal Regiment]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
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* The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
* [[The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
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* [[12th Manitoba Dragoons]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
* [[12th Manitoba Dragoons]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
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* [[8th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars)]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
* [[8th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars)]] (1944-1945)<ref name=cansol/> |
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The North-West Europe 1944–1945 battle honour is a battle honour 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 the awarded unit took part in the action.[1]
It refers to the land campaign starting with the 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 following units were awarded the battle honour,
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