• The Winnipeg Grenadiers was an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. First formed on 1 April 1908 under General Order No. 20. Initially it was raised...
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    as France (Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale) and Argentina (Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers) established units of Horse Grenadiers, and for a...
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    Medical Corps. Four men of A Company Winnipeg Grenadiers were bayoneted after the battle at Jardine's Lookout. One grenadier, Private Kilfoyle, was killed on...
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    major Canadian units involved in the defence of Hong Kong were the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada. In addition to this the Canadians...
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    Curley Christian (category Winnipeg Grenadiers)
    Ethelbert "Curley" Christian (likely 15 April 1882 – 15 March 1954) was a Canadian First World War veteran and activist. He has been described as "one...
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    John Robert Osborn (category Winnipeg Grenadiers)
    as Company Sergeant-Major for A Company in the 1st Battalion, The Winnipeg Grenadiers, during the Second World War when the following deed took place on...
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    James Edward Tait (category Winnipeg Grenadiers)
    February 1916. Tait was 30 years old, and a lieutenant in the 78th (Winnipeg Grenadiers) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World...
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    the start of World War II in 1939. In the Battle of Hong Kong, The Winnipeg Grenadiers were among the first Canadians to engage in combat against Japan...
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  • in the Canadian Army to be designated as a grenadier regiment (the other unit being The Winnipeg Grenadiers). In 1936, the regiment was amalgamated with...
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    to Canada to train others. In 1941 Porteous was posted with the Winnipeg Grenadiers to Hong Kong, to reinforce the British garrison. The regiment arrived...
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    The 78th Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers), CEF was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. The 78th Battalion was...
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  • Royal Rifles of Canada, engaged the enemy as his regiment joined The Winnipeg Grenadiers, members of Battalion Headquarters "C" Force and other Commonwealth...
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    reassigned to the newly mobilized 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were sent to Jamaica for garrison duty, after which they returned...
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    Samuel Lewis Honey (category Winnipeg Grenadiers)
    fitness instructor, and briefly served with the 87th Battalion (Canadian Grenadier Guards), CEF before being transferred to the 78th Battalion, which was...
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    enemy ships at Wilhelmshaven, Germany on September 4, 1939. The Winnipeg Grenadiers were among the first Canadians to engage in combat against Japan...
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    Ottawa. He was given command of the Royal Rifles of Canada, The Winnipeg Grenadiers, and the other Canadian support units which arrived in Hong Kong...
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    was a rifle regiment in the Canadian Army and fought alongside The Winnipeg Grenadiers in the Battle of Hong Kong during World War II. In November 1966...
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    recipients who lived on same block on Pine Street (now Valour Road) in Winnipeg: Leo Clarke, Frederick Hall and Robert Shankland Born in the Dominion of...
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    Canadian regiments landed included the Canadian Fusiliers; the Winnipeg Grenadiers; the Rocky Mountain Rangers; and the Saint John Fusiliers. The invasion...
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    The 100th Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Great War Canadian Expeditionary Force. The 100th Battalion was authorized...
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    Jack Ruttan (category Ice hockey people from Winnipeg)
    outbreak of the First World War in 1914: three years with the 100th Winnipeg Grenadiers, and two with the 34th Fort Garry Horse. In April 1915, he enlisted...
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  • alliance with the Canadian Winnipeg Grenadiers came to an end, ending an alliance that had existed since 1933. The Winnipeg Grenadiers would disband the following...
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  • 1920 The Royal Winnipeg Rifles and The Calgary Highlanders 11th Battalion, CEF 10 August 1914 12 October 1917 The Winnipeg Grenadiers 12th Battalion,...
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    1917-08-1515–17 August 1917 John Osborn NOR-8.2Company Sergeant Major Winnipeg Grenadiers Second World War 1941-12-1919 December 1941* James Osborne NOR-2...
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    fortress colony of Bermuda in August, 1940, replacing a company of the Winnipeg Grenadiers. When the deposed King Carol II of Romania arrived in Bermuda in...
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    Canadian Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 1st Battalion, The Winnipeg Grenadiers 1st Battalion, The Rocky Mountain Rangers 1st Battalion, Le Régiment...
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    continued on Hong Kong Island; the only reservoir was lost. Canadian Winnipeg Grenadiers fought at the crucial Wong Nai Chong Gap, which was the passage between...
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  • Middlesex Regiment (MG Battalion) - Lt.Col. Henry William Stewart Winnipeg Grenadiers - Lt.Col. John Louis R. Sutcliff Royal Rifles of Canada - Lt.Col...
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    If Day (category History of Winnipeg)
    Troops were drawn from the Fifth Field Regiment, the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, the Winnipeg Grenadiers, the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, and a number...
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    Canada was asked to provide garrison support, with one company of The Winnipeg Grenadiers sailing from Halifax to relieve a company of the King's Shropshire...
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