Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (Regular)
Founding – 1914 Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry
Motto – no motto
Nicknames - the Pats, the Patricias, the Picklies
Marches – Has Anyone Seen the Colonel + Tipperary + Mademoiselle from Armentières
Colonel-in-Chief – The Right Honourable Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Victoria Cross Recipient(s):
Robert Spall
George Harry Mullin
Battle Honours:
Great War
Ypres 1915’17; Arleux; Frenzenberg; Hill 70; Bellewaarde; Passchendaele; Mount Sorrel; Amiens; Somme 1916; Scarpe 1918; Flers-Courcelette; Hindenburg Line; Ancre Heights; Canal du Nord; Arras 1917-18; Pursuit to Mons; Vimy 1917; France and Flanders 1914-18; Siberia 1918-19
Second World War
Landing in Sicily; Rimini Line; Leonforte; Sabn Fortunato; Agira Savio Bridgehead; Sicily 1943; Naviglio Canal; The Moro; Fosso Munio; The Gully; Granarola; Liri Valley; Hitler Line; Gothic Line; Italy 1943-45; Appeldoorn; North-West Europe 1945
Korean War
Kapyong*; Korea 1950-53
*Presidential Unit Citation
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-flags/ppcli.htm (see bottom of website for citation)
Current Alliances:
The Royal Green Jackets (UK)
The Royal Australia Regiment (Aus)
The Hauraki Regiment (Aus)