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Mr. Horowitz talks about how and why his regiment became the most decorated regiment of Canadian history and the only one that got an Irish decoration.
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I don't know if this was with the Irish regiment or not, I think that was in Italy. They were in trouble, we sent the squadron over there and we saved them. We really got it because Ian Worthington and Crerar, who was our commander in chief said that the Three-River regiment did more than surpass an average regiment. We were honoured for that. And the Irish regiment, the Irish soldiers, yeah the Irish regiment, we were one of the only one that ever got a battle honour, their battle honour for the work we did with them. We're the only regiment that has ever done that, to get an honour from another regiment. We have the most battle honours that ever been awarded to any regiment. And we can't put it on our (inaudible) because there's too many. We got twelve on it. Now I think we got something in the region of about eighteen battle honours. For the regiment itself. That's going right up into Ortona, the Hitler line, all the way up there...Cassino. So we did, the regiment actually proved itself that it was a fighting unit.