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unusual facts about Royal 22e Regiment



Chérisy

It was in the retaking of Chérisy that Major Georges Philias Vanier, the future GOC of the Governor General of Canada (1959–1967) was wounded, as a result of which his leg was amputated.

Marc Caron

As a junior officer he served with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Airborne Commando in Cyprus from April 1974, with the 1st Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment in Lahr, Germany from August 1976 and with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Lemgo, Germany from January 1978.

Operation Baawar

On December 7, 2010, soldiers from the Zangabad south-west of Kandahar City.

They shall not pass

The phrase was used again in December 1943 by French-Canadian officer Paul Triquet of the Victoria Cross.


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