Garden of Remembrance and Perth Regiment Memorial

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THE PERTH REGIMENT
AUDAX ET CAUTUS

[front left plaque/plaque avant gauche]
THE PERTH REGIMENT 1866 - 1964

VOLUNTEER COMPANIES FROM PERTH COUNTY SERVED ON THE
NIAGARA AND DETROIT FRONTIERS AT THE TIME OF
THE FENIAIN RAIDS 1865 - 1866.

BY GENERAL ORDER DATED SEPTEMBER 14, 1866
A COUNTY REGIMENT WAS FORMED.
THE 28TH BATTALION OF INFANTRY COMPRISING:
STRATFORD RIFLE COMPANY FORMED 1856
STRATFORD INFANTRY COMPANY FORMED 1862
ST. MARYS VOLUNTEER COMPANY FORMED 1863
LISTOWEL VOLUNTEER COMPANY FORMED 1863

LATER THE REGIMENT HAD COMPANIES AT MITCHELL
FULLERTON AND RANNOCH ON MAY 18, 1900.
THE NAME WAS ALTERED TO 28TH PERTH REGIMENT

THE REGIMENT RECRUITED MORETHAN 3,000 MEN FOR SERVICE
IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR, INCLUDING 146 FOR THE FIRST
CONTINGENT WHICH WENT OVERSEAS IN 1914. 93 FOR THE
18TH BATTALION WHICH WENT OVERSEAS IN 1915. 1200 FOR THE
110TH BATTALION "PERTH'S OWN" WHICH WENT OVERSEAS IN 1916.

IN 1920 IT BECAME "THE PERTH REGIMENT" AND IN 1930 WAS
AFFILIATED WITH THE CAMERONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES).

THE REGIMENT WAS MOBILIZED SEPTEMBER 1ST 1939 FOR SERVICE
IN WORLD WAR II AND WENT TO ENGLAND IN 1941 TAKING PART
IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN IN 1943 - 1944 AND LATER IN THE
NORTH-WEST EUROPE CAMPAIGN IN 1945 ON RETURN TO CANADA
THE REGIMENT WAS DEMOBILIZED AT STRATFORD, JANUARY 16, 1946.

SCOTTISH DRESS INCLUDING THE DOUGLAS TARTAN
WAS ADOPTED IN 1946. AFTER SERVING AS A MILITIA UNIT
FROM THEN UNTIL 1964 THE REGIMENT WAS DEACTIVATED ON
ST. JAMES CHURCH, STRATFORD ON JANUARY 31, 1965.

AUDAX ET CAUTUS

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This Garden of Rembrance
and Perth Regiment Memorial
was dedicated on
Sunday, September 10th, 1972,
in Grateful and Honoured
Memory of the Perth Regiment
which served Perth County and
Canada Faithfully and Gallantly
since first formed
on September 14th, 1866

AUDAX ET CAUTUS

Erected by the Citizens of Perth County and the
Perth Regiment Veterans Association

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The Perth Regiment
BATTLE HONOURS

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World War 1
1914-1918

YPRES 1915
Festubert 1915

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World War II
1939-1945

LIRI VALLEY
Melfa Crossing
Ceprano
GOTHIC LINE
Montecchio
Point 204
CORIANO
LAMONE CROSSING
FOSSO MUNIO
CONVENTELLO COMACCHIO
ITALY, 1944-1945
IJSSELMEER
DELFZIJL POCKET
NORTHWEST EUROPE

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To the everlasting
memory of the
members of

The
Perth Regiment

both the living and the dead,
who together with other Canadian
and Allied servicemen participated in
the glorious campaign of 1944 - 1945
that led to the liberation
of The Netherlands

Presented by the
grateful Dutch-Canadians of Stratford

May, 1970

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MEMORIAL GARDENS