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		E. United Kingdom Serjeant 15856 Grenadier Guards 11/10/1915 Age: 22 IX.
		United Kingdom Lance Corporal 16848 Grenadier Guards 12/10/1915 Age: 20 IX.
		Canadian Private 633732 Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) 18/08/1917 Age: 19 VII.
	www.inmemories.com /Cemeteries/stmarysads.htm (2308 words)

	Grenadier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grenadier Guards, a regiment in the British Army.
		The Canadian Grenadier Guards, a regiment in the Canadian Army.
		The Potsdam Grenadiers, an 18th-century regiment of the Prussian Guard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grenadier (171 words)

	Grenadier Guards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grenadier Guards is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry.
		The Coldstream Guards were organized before the Grenadier Guards, but their regiment is reckoned after the Grenadiers in seniority.
		Grenadier Guards' buttons are equally spaced and embossed with the Royal Cypher.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grenadier_Guards (625 words)

	Warrant Officer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Canadian Forces, Warrant Officers are the senior non-commissioned member (NCM) ranks.
		A WO of the Canadian Grenadier Guards and the Governor General's Foot Guards is referred to and addressed as Colour Sergeant (CSgt).
		The warrant officers in the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) are similar to those in the U.S. Navy, but may be found in command of smaller stations and some boats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warrant_Officer (4593 words)

	Canadian Grenadier Guards Band (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Formed at the request of F.S. Meighen, His Majesty's Canadian Grenadier Guards Band was intended to accompany parades and other regimental activities.
		Under Gagnier the grenadiers made seven 78s for HMV (the list is given in Roll Back the Years), one 78 (not commercially available) for Victor (PR 659-60), and in 1964 with Miceli the LP On Parade for RCA (LPM 2599).
		Claude Champagne composed the Ballade des lutins for the grenadiers in 1914; like Hervé Baillargeon and Francis Boucher, Champagne for a time was a member of the band.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000560 (463 words)

	Ceremonial Guard - www.canadiansoldiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Ceremonial Guard was a composite of companies from the Governor General’s Foot Guards and Montreal's Canadian Grenadier Guards, from 1981 the Band of the Ceremonial Guard, and a Headquarters Company (which provided supply, transportation, training, administrative and medical support).
		Although the GGFG and the CGG had previously mounted guard and paraded on ceremonial occasions, including the visit of His Majesty the King in 1939, it was not until the summer of 1959 that continuing daily Public Duties was conducted in the Nation's Capital.
		The first Guard at Government House and ceremony on Parliament Hill was mounted on 2 July 1959 by the 1st Battalion The Canadian Guards following the Household Guard which had been mounted for Her Majesty the Queen in June 1959.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Ceremonial_Guard (1830 words)

	Grenadier Guards
		The Grenadier Guards trace their origin back to around 1656 during Charles II's exile; when a new standing army was formed on the Restoration in 1660, it included the King's Royal Regiment of Foot Guards.
		On this occasion, in 1906, the entire Grenadier Guards Band travelled to Oxford at their own expense to witness the ceremony of the conferring of the degree, and to hear the Vice-Chancellor comment, 'I understand that you are a pioneer in the army in regard to the degree of Doctor of Music.
		A further distinctive feature of foot guards' uniforms which has survived is the grouping of the buttons on the front of their tunics: the Grenadiers being the senior are normally spaced, Coldstreamers grouped in twos, Scots in threes, Irish in fours and the Welsh in fives.
	military-bands.co.uk /grenadier_guards.html (1813 words)

	Colours of some Guards Units, British & Canadian
		Throughout Queen Victoria’s reign the Foot Guards performed this same ceremonial in honour of her birthday (24th May) and it has continued to be held ever since on a day set aside as The Sovereign’s Official Birthday.
		They are carried by Guards of Honour (not formed from the Queen's Guard) mounted on Her Majesty The Queen on State occasions.
		After changes to the Army in 1788 The 1st and 2nd Life Guards Regiments were formed, from their descendants, The Horse Grenadier Guards and four Troops of the Kings Horse Guards.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-flags/guards-colours.htm (1671 words)

	The Claude Champagne Virtual Exhibition - Chronology: Claude Champagne
		Becomes a member of the Regimental Band of the Canadian Grenadier Guards in Montreal for which he played saxophone until approximately 1920.
		Canadian delegate representing CAPAC (Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada) at a conference held in Washington D.C. by the International Confederation of the Societies of Authors and Composers from October 21 to 26.
		Appointed Canadian chairman of the committee on selections for the concert Canadian Music at Carnegie Hall, held in New York on October 16.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /champagne/m4-202-e.html (1030 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - CGG
		Canada's oldest infantry regiment, The Canadian Grenadier Guards was raised on 17 November 1859 in Montreal.
		Following the cease-fire in Europe, when Canada began preparing a 6th Canadian Division for service in the Far East against the Japanese, that division's armoured component was slated to be the Canadian Grenadier Guards.
		Today, the Canadian Grenadier Guards are once again an infantry unit, a part of 34 Canadian Brigade Group headquartered in Montreal.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/armwar/units/11dcggeng.html (365 words)

	Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery - Veterans Affairs Canada
		Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the largest number of Canadian war dead in the Netherlands.
		Canadian airmen rest in 141 of the graves.
		Some 5,500 Canadians were casualties of the month of fighting.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=feature/Holland00/holschedule/groesbeek (454 words)

	Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean Speech on the Occasion of the Annual Inspection of the Ceremonial ...
		As commander-in-chief of the Canadian Forces, and as honorary colonel of the Governor General’s Foot Guards and the Canadian Grenadier Guards, I am very pleased to have this opportunity to inspect the Ceremonial Guard as it begins its summer duties.
		The Canadian Grenadier Guards and the Governor General’s Foot Guards were present at a large number of the armed conflicts that have marked our history, and shaped our national spirit.
		Canadians and other visitors to the Nation’s Capital come out to witness the Changing of the Guard because they admire the precise drill, but also because they hold our Canadian Forces in such high esteem.
	www.gg.ca /media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4810 (564 words)

	Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson Speech on the Occasion of the Inspection of the Ceremonial Guard
		I am happy — as Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces, and as Colonel of the Governor General's Foot Guards and the Canadian Grenadier Guards — to welcome the return of the Ceremonial Guard and the Band of the Ceremonial Guard to Rideau Hall and Parliament Hill.
		The Governor General's Foot Guards were founded in 1872 as a regiment of foot guards.
		The members of the Ceremonial Guard represent a particular Canadian tradition: that of the citizen-soldier fulfilling a public duty.
	www.gg.ca /media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=1107 (359 words)

	Akaash Maharaj - Governor General's Horse Guards (GGHG), Canadian Household Cavalry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Governor General’s Horse Guards, the Governor General’s Foot Guards, and the Canadian Grenadier Guards collectively form Canada’s Household Division, the branch of the Armed Forces notionally attached to the royal and vice-regal households.
		The Horse Guards are Canada’s sole Household Cavalry regiment, while the Foot Guards and the Grenadier Guards are both Household Infantry regiments.
		The Horse Guards were historically a carbine musketeer regiment, but we have embraced an over-abundance of good sense, and decided against mixing bullets and horses in our weapons drills.
	www.maharaj.org /cavalry.shtml (787 words)

	CC1979 CGG Centennial Cadet Corps
		The cadets are a movement linked to the Canadian government.This organisation is for youngsters aged 12 to 18.
		Their goal is to promote physical training, develop leadership qualities and form good citizens.
		Shooting, biathlon, summer camps, basic training, map and compass and much more are part of their activities.
	www.geocities.com /cggcc1979 (149 words)

	A fine selection of Canadian regimental blazer badges.
		It may be a wedding Coat of Arms that will be passed from one generation to another, or perhaps it is researching and replacing a worn out blazer badge that meant so much to an aging veteran.
		Below is a sampling from a series of Canadian military blazer badges that we were commissioned to produce for the Museum de Voltigeurs, Quebec.
		Located in the Voltigeurs de Québec armoury, a national heritage building with the largest suspended wood ceiling in the country, there is a permanent exhibition of the regiment’s weapons, uniforms and medals as well as valuable pieces like the Vimy Bell and regimental drums.
	www.sheba-imports.com /Canadian_regimental_blazer_badges.html (233 words)

	National Defence and the Canadian Forces
		Sgt David Burr of the Canadian Grenadier Guards assists CF CWO Gilbert in replacing his dagger during rehearsal July 20 for the Changing of the Guard ceremony on Parliament Hill July 21.
		Describing the CG as a Canadian institution, encompassing teamwork, fitness, cohesion and leadership, he says it reflects superbly on the men and women in uniform.
		And while that decision was based on the fact that the Old Guard does fewer drill movements, they tend to be most affected by the heat because they move so infrequently.
	www.forces.gc.ca /site/Feature_Story/2005/08/cds_f_e.asp (550 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - 22nd Canadian Armoured Regiment (Canadian Grenadier Guards)
		On enquiring from the 27 Canadian Armoured Regiment we were told that their Adjutant and signal Officer were both missing, together with all the code signs and orders for the operation.
		Major Learment who was then in command of the two forward companies with captain Wilson then in command of the remnants of "B" company ordered to withdraw to the previously dug slit trenches, in rear of "D" company and the battalion went to ground and prepared to hold on to the last.
		In view of this, permission was asked of the Brigadier to withdraw to the high ground in the woods at LES BUISSONS with the Stormont Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders and the remainder of the 27 Canadian Armoured Regiment.
	www.junobeach.org /e/2/can-eve-rod-nor-bur-e.htm (2114 words)

	Grenadier Guards [UK]
		The Grenadier Guards, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
		Grenadier Guards Association, East Kent Branch, by Robert Goodson.
		The Grenadier guards; a tercentenary exhibition held by gracious permission of Her Majesty, the Queen, at St. James's Palace 30 May-23 June 1956.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/guards/f-1GG.htm (760 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Prince of Wales's Regiment, and the Canadian Militia.
		History of the Royal Grenadiers, A Regimental History of the 10th Infantry Battalion of the Active Militia of Canada.
		History of the 10th Royals and of the Royal Grenadiers, From the formation of the Regiment until 1896.
	4dw.net /royalark/ADDISON/CANADA.htm (1582 words)

	The Monarchy Today > Ceremony and symbol > Ceremonies > Changing the Guard
		The soldiers are drawn from one of the five regiments of Foot Guards in the British Army: the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards, the Welsh Guards, the Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream Guards.
		In 1689, the court moved to St James's Palace, which was guarded by the Foot Guards.
		At Horse Guards Arch, Changing of the Guard takes place daily at 11.00 am (10.00 am on Sundays) and lasts about half an hour; it is normally held on Horse Guards Parade by the arch of Horse Guards Building.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page4933.asp (389 words)

	Canadian Grenadier Guards
		The Regiment mobilized The Canadian Grenadier Guards, C.A.S.F. on 24 May 1940.
		It was converted to armour and redesignated 22nd Armoured Regiment (The Canadian Grenadier Guards) on 26 January 1942.
		It embarked for the UK as the second senior regiment of 4th Armoured Brigade, 4th Canadian Armoured Division, on 25 September 1942.
	www.rcaca.org /includes/r-CGG.asp (179 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade
		Mobilized in September 1940, the 4th Canadian Division contained in its order of battle, the 10th, 11th and 12th Infantry Brigades.
		In 1942 Ottawa took the decision to convert the entire division to an armoured formation, a move that required a considerable amount of re-organisation.
		As of 1942 the 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade comprised; the
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/armwar/units/11b4thbdeeng.html (219 words)

	Flags on the ground
		That was probably the regimental colour of either The Governor General's Foot Guards or The Canadian Grenadier Guards (these two regiments do most of the ceremonial parading on Parliament Hill).
		For guards regiments, the National Flag with one of the company badges on the maple leaf forms the basis for the regimental colour.
		The Queen's Colours in the Guards are crimson.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/xf-grnd.html (816 words)

	Champagne, Claude
		Champagne's mother was Irish and is said to have taught him hymns.
		His grandfather, a fiddler well known in the Repentigny region, exercised an influence on his aural development, as is seen later in his appreciation of the modal sounds of Canadian folk music.
		The Canadian Encyclopedia © 2006 Historica Foundation of Canada
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000660 (120 words)

	CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORY
		Futility and sacrifice: the Canadians on the Somme, 1916
		Canadian Gunner Battle School, 1943-45 [microform]: the Italian Campaign and the employment of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division's artillery
		Canadians in khaki: South Africa, 1899-1900: nominal rolls of the officers, non-commissioned officers & men of the Canadian contingents and Strathcona's Horse, with casualties to date: and also R.M.C. graduates with the army in South Africa
	www.ucalgary.ca /lib-old/subjects/HIST/canmil.html (5624 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - 22nd Canadian Armoured Regiment (Canadian Grenadier Guards)
		At 0929 hours information had been received from the Seventh Canadian Infantry Brigade that the operation on their front was proceeding according to plan.
		Due to the difficulty the Eighth Canadian Infantry Brigade was having in dislodging the enemy and as time was getting on, it was decided to break through their front before they had consolidated on their objective, and continue along the axis.
		As the van guard was already fighting in VILLONS-LES-BUISSONS, cleaning out three machine gun nests and killing most of the crews, taking prisoners and weapons, the Commanding Officer decided to close up the battalion and consolidate astride the ANISY-LES-BUISSONS - CAEN cross roads.
	www.junobeach.org /e/2/can-eve-rod-nor-nns-e.htm (1052 words)

	GGFG - Governor General's Foot Guards
		Battle Honours, in a Guards Regiment, are displayed on both the Queen's Colour and the Regimental Colour.
		For example, the Scots Guards, Irish Guards and Welsh Guards only deck their Colours on the occasions that are also recorded in the Battle Honours emblazoned on the Colours themselves.
		The Grenadier Guards and the Coldstream Guards commemorate battles that are only recorded as lesser Honours granted for the Great War and for the Second World War that are shown in the Army List, but not displayed on the Colours.
	www.cyberus.ca /~ggfg/bhonours.htm (813 words)

	Trun - Veterans Affairs Canada
		Located between Argentan and Falaise, Trun was an important element of the plan to close the Falaise "gap" and trap the Germans in the region.
		The 4th Armoured Division -- in particular, The Canadian Grenadier Guards and The Lake Superior Regiment -- and the Polish Armoured Division would then advance on Trun, with the Polish troops continuing on to Chambois.
		The Canadian Grenadier Guards waited for The Lake Superior Regiment to meet them for their attack on Trun that day.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /clients/sub.cfm?source=feature/normandy/memorials/trun (352 words)

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