North-West Europe campaign of 1944–45

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates North-West Europe 1944–1945 is a battle honour (more properly known as an honorary distinction)<ref name=grenguards/> earned by regiments of the British Commonwealth forces during the Second World War that took part in the actions of the northern part of the war's Western Front. The battle honour North-West Europe is suffixed with the year, or years, in which the awarded unit took part in the action.<ref name=cansol>North-West Europe, canadiansoldiers.com, retrieved and archived 29 June 2019.</ref>

It refers to the land campaign starting with the 6th June landings in Normandy and ended with Field Marshal Montgomery taking the German military surrender of all German forces in the Netherlands, Northwest Germany and Denmark on Lüneburg Heath in Northwest Germany. The campaign was conducted by Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, of which the British 21st Army Group was a component, along with the American 12th and 6th Army Groups. Together, the three army groups comprised the Allied effort on the Western Front which at its longest stretched from the North Sea to Switzerland.

The battle honours for the Second World War were not awarded until 1957/58 by which point some units had amalgamated or been disbanded.

List of units

The following units were awarded the battle honour,

Canadian regiments

• The Toronto Scottish Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Royal Regiment of Canada (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Essex Scottish Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The South Saskatchewan Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 14th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Calgary Regiment) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Elgin Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Royal Montreal Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 12th Manitoba Dragoons (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 8th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment (14th Canadian Hussars) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 7th Canadian Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The New Brunswick Rangers (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Lake Superior Regiment (Motor) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• Le Régiment de Maisonneuve (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Calgary Highlanders (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Royal Winnipeg Rifles (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Regina Rifle Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Canadian Scottish Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• Le Régiment de la Chaudière (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Highland Light Infantry of Canada (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The North Nova Scotia Highlanders (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Lincoln and Welland Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Algonquin Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 6th Canadian Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 10th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Fort Garry Horse) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 27th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 21st Armoured Regiment (The Governor General's Foot Guards) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 22nd Armoured Regiment (The Grenadier Guards) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 28th Armoured Regiment (The British Columbia Regiment) (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 1st Armoured Car Regiment (Royal Canadian Dragoons) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 4th Reconnaissance Regiment (4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Saskatoon Light Infantry (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 3rd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The Governor General's Horse Guards) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Westminster Regiment (Motor) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Princess Louise Fusiliers (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Royal Canadian Regiment (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 48th Highlanders of Canada (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• Royal 22^e Régiment (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Carleton and York Regiment (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The West Nova Scotia Regiment (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Perth Regiment (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Cape Breton Highlanders (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• The Irish Regiment of Canada (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 11th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Ontario Regiment) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 12th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Three Rivers Regiment) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 2nd Armoured Regiment (Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 5th Armoured Regiment (8th Princess Louise's (New Brunswick) Hussars) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• 9th Armoured Regiment (The British Columbia Dragoons) (1945)<ref name=cansol/>
• Prince Edward Island Regiment for actions of Prince Edward Island Light Horse (1944–1945)<ref name=cansol/>

US-Canadian forces

• First Special Service Force (1944)<ref name=cansol/>

British regiments

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• Honourable Artillery Company (1944–1945)<ref>Battle Honours, Honourable Artillery Company, accessed and archived 29 June 2019.</ref>
• Royal Norfolk Regiment (1944–45)Template:Citation needed
• East Lancashire Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=lancsmus>Battle Honours, Lancashire Infantry Museum, accessed and archived 30 June 2019.</ref>
• South Lancashire Regiment (1944–1945)<ref name=lancsmus/>
• Suffolk RegimentTemplate:Citation needed
• Coldstream Guards (1944–1945)<ref>Lewis Pearce, "Battle honours", appx. A in, Julian Paget, Second to None: The History of the Coldstream Guards 1650 2000, Pen and Sword, 2000 Template:ISBN.</ref>
• Irish GuardsTemplate:Citation needed
• Grenadier Guards (1944–1945)<ref name=grenguards>Template:Usurped, Grenadier Guards Association, East Kent Branch, accessed and Template:Usurped 21 July 2019.</ref>
• Welsh GuardsTemplate:Citation needed
• 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)Template:Citation needed
• Duke of Wellington's Regiment (1944–1945)<ref>Regimental Battle Honours, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) Regimental Association, accessed and archived 21 July 2019.</ref>
• Parachute Regiment (1944–1945)<ref>Battle Honours, Airborne Assault: ParaData, accessed 21 July 2019 and archived 29 June 2019.</ref>
• South Staffordshire Regiment (1944)<ref>Battle honours of the Staffordshire Regiment, The Staffordshire Regiment Museum, accessed and archived 22 July 2019.</ref>
• Army Commandos (1942–1944), in the form of honours granted to the Commandos Association.<ref>Major James Dunning, A brief history of the Army Commandos (1939-1945), accessed and archived 22 July 2019.</ref>
• Manchester Regiment (New 1st Battalion) (1944–1945)<ref>Museum of the Manchester Regiment: Battle Honours of The Manchester Regiment, Tameside Metropolitan Borough, accessed and archived 24 July 2019.</ref>
• Gloucestershire Regiment (1944–1945)<ref>Battle Honours The Gloucestershire Regiment 28th LXI, accessed 9 August 2019 and archived 31 August 2018.</ref>
• Life Guards
• Royal Horse Guards

See also

• North-West Europe campaign of 1940
• North-West Europe 1942 (Battle honour)

References

• Baker, Anthony Battle Honours of the British and Commonwealth Armies 1986. Ian Allan Publishing Template:Isbn