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Governor General's Foot Guards
The Governor General's Foot Guards is one of three Household regiments in the Canadian Army reserve forces, along with The Governor General's Horse Guards and the Canadian Grenadier Guards. The GGFG is the most senior militia infantry regiment in Canada.
The regiment has an operational role that encompasses both the territorial defence of Canada and supporting regular Canadian forces overseas. In addition to this, it also performs a ceremonial role similar to that of the Guards regiments of the British Army, mounting the guard on Parliament Hill and at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, a task it shares with the Canadian Grenadier Guards.
The Governor General's Foot Guards is affiliated to the Coldstream Guards.
The Guards are based at the Cartier Square Drill Hall in Ottawa.
- BATTLE HONOURS
- North West Canada, 1885
- South Africa 1899-1900
- World War I: Ypres, 1915, 1917, Flers-Courcelette, Passchendaele, Gravenstafel, Ancre Heights, Amiens, St. Julien, Arras, 1917, 1918, Drocourt-Queant, Festubert, 1915, Vimy 1917, Hidenburg Line, Mount Sorrel, Arleux, Canal du Nord, Somme, 1916, Scarpe, 1917-18, Pursuit to Mons, Pozières, Hill 70, France and Flanders, 1915-1918
- World War II: The Hochwald, The Rhineland, Chambois, Falaise, Veen, The Sheldt, Falaise Road, Bad Zwichenahn, The Lower Maas, The Laison, North West Europe, 1944-1945
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