The Lincoln and Welland Regiment is a reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces based in St. Catharines and Welland, Ontario.
The Regimental Colonel-in-Chief is HRH The Countess of Wessex and the regimental motto is Non Nobis Sed Patriæ, "Not for ourselves but for our country".
The regiment has twenty-six battle honours, fourteen of which (italicized) are emblazoned on the Regimental Colours:
First World War: Ypres, 1915, '17 Festubert, 1915 Somme, 1916 Arras, 1917, '18 Hill 70 Amiens Hindenburg Line Pursuit to Mons
Second World War: Falaise Falaise Road The Laison Chambois The Seine, 1944 Moerbrugge The Scheldt Breskens Pocket The Lower Maas Kapelsche Veer The Rheneland The Hochwald Veen Twente Canal Friesoythe Küsten Canal Bad Zwischenahn North-West Europe, 1944-1945
Allied regiments include the Royal Anglian Regiment (UK), the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (UK), the Bermuda Regiment, the Royal Queensland Regiment (Aus), and the Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay Regiment (NZ). The regiment is also connected with cadet corps in St. Catharines and Fonthill, and with Robert Land Academy in Wellandport.
The website British Regiments.org reports its lineage as from Butler's Rangers 1777-1784
Order of precedence
External links
- unofficial Canadian Army Website: The Lincoln and Welland Regiment.
- Website of The Lincoln and Welland Regiment.
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