REGIMENTAL COLOUR
THE SOUTH ALBERTA REGIMENT
(29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment)
RCAC
ARMORIAL DESCRIPTION
BETWEEN MAPLES LEAFS, THE ALBERTA CREST
AROUND THE CREST A SCROLL INSCRIBED
THE SOUTH ALBERTA REGIMENT, THE
WHOLE SURMOUNTED BY THE CROWN
Short Title: S.A.R.
Regimental March: A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky
Battle Honors: 20
FIRST WORLD WAR
Mount Sorrel Somme 1917-18
Vimy, 1917 Hill 70
Ypres, 1917 Passachendale
Amiens Cambrai, 1918
Pursuit to Mons France and Flanders 1915-18
SECOND WORLD WAR
Northwest Europe Falaise 1944-45
Falaise Road St. LambeSur-Dives
Moerbrugge The Scheldt
The Lower Mass The Rhineland
The Hockwald Veen
Alliances
East Surrey Regiment (Princess of Wales Royal Regiment)
Presented by the Honorable Gordon Towers, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
23 September 1996
The stain glass window honouring the men of the SAR is located in St. Stephen's Anglican Church in Calgary
Full view A close-up
Thursday February 07, 2013
UP DATED 07-02-2013