The Royal Winnipeg Rifles (R Wpg Rif) are a Primary Reserve one-battalion infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. Nicknamed the "Little Black Devils"...
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The Winnipeg Rifles is a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Rifles are members of the Canadian Junior Football League and play their...
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The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada Canada – The Brockville Rifles Canada – The Royal Winnipeg Rifles Canada – The Royal Regina Rifles Australia – 11th/28th...
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190th (Winnipeg Rifles) Battalion, CEF had one Officer Commanding: Lieut-Col. G. K. Watson. This battalion is perpetuated by the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. Canadian...
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The 203rd (Winnipeg Rifles) Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the...
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144th (Winnipeg Rifles) Battalion, CEF had one Officer Commanding: Lieut-Col. A. W. Morley. This battalion is perpetuated by the Royal Winnipeg Rifles. Attestation...
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Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (1966–2007) Canada - The Brockville Rifles Canada - The Royal Winnipeg Rifles Canada - The Royal Regina Rifles New Zealand...
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07:35. Several assault companies—notably those of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada—took heavy casualties in the opening minutes...
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1940. The Germans were facing forces from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, the Regina Rifles, the Queen's Own Rifles, the 3rd Canadian Anti-Tank Regiment, and the...
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The 90th Battalion (Winnipeg Rifles), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Great War Canadian Expeditionary Force. The 90th Battalion was authorized...
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Clifford Chadderton (category Royal Winnipeg Rifles)
York Rangers. He enlisted on 15 October 1939, serving with The Royal Winnipeg Rifles of the Non-Permanent Active Militia. Chadderton rose from non-commissioned...
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Minto Armoury (category Royal Winnipeg Rifles)
historic structure in the West End of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The armoury is currently the home base of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders...
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the Château de Vaux. The village was ‘liberated' by 'D' Company, Royal Winnipeg Rifles just after 10 AM (Paris Time, The ‘Little Black Devils' clearing...
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William Nassau Kennedy (category Royal Winnipeg Rifles officers)
1885) was the second Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1875 to 1876. He was the first commander of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles. Kennedy was born in Newcastle...
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The 8th Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles), CEF, also known by the nickname of The Little Black Devils of Canada, was an infantry battalion of the Canadian...
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film Black Devil Disco Club, an electronic disco music project Royal Winnipeg Rifles or the Little Black Devils This disambiguation page lists articles...
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The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada is a Primary Reserve regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces, based in Toronto. The regiment is part of 4th Canadian Division's...
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recipients who lived on same block on Pine Street (now Valour Road) in Winnipeg: Leo Clarke, Frederick Hall and Robert Shankland Born in the Dominion of...
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coming from Victoria area, the Regina Rifles from the Regina area, and the Royal Winnipeg Rifles from the Winnipeg area, while the 9th Brigade was known...
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10th Battalion (Canadians), CEF (category Royal Winnipeg Rifles)
as The Fighting Tenth. The 10th Battalion is perpetuated by The Royal Winnipeg Rifles and The Calgary Highlanders. The Canadian Expeditionary Force was...
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Battle of Kitcheners' Wood (category Royal Winnipeg Rifles)
regiment directly on the oakleaf. The WLI were absorbed into the Royal Winnipeg Rifles in 1955 and the WLI badge fell out of use. The acorn and oak leaf...
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ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Royal-Winnipeg-Rifles.pdf Accessed 01.02.2018 War Diary: The Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Ashore Graye-sur-Mer: Page 5, 6 Tue...
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Jeff Nicklin (category Royal Winnipeg Rifles officers)
during the Second World War (1939−1945), and, after enlisting in the Royal Winnipeg Rifles of the Canadian Army in the summer of 1940, he worked his way up...
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1981. Jenkins was raised in the Souris region. He served with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and saw combat with the Canadian Scottish Regiment in World War...
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Andrew Mynarski (category Royal Winnipeg Rifles soldiers)
1940, Mynarski joined the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, a militia unit, but only served a short time before enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)...
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citizen Paul E. Martin, who was a Second World War veteran with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, a long-serving City Councillor, former Mayor of Transcona (1958–1959)...
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Colonel-in-chief (section Line Infantry and Rifles)
Simcoe Foresters — The Princess Royal Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) — The Duke of Kent Royal Winnipeg Rifles — The King Essex and Kent Scottish...
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Hugh John Macdonald (category Royal Winnipeg Rifles officers)
Macdonald moved to Winnipeg in 1882 and set up his own law practice. Macdonald served with the 14th Battalion Volunteer Militia Rifles during the summer...
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Frederick William Hall (category Royal Winnipeg Rifles soldiers)
approximately 1910, and lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was 30 years old, and a Company Sergeant-Major in the 8th (Winnipeg Rifles) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary...
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dress uniform features a scarlet doublet and feather bonnet The Royal Winnipeg Rifles full dress uniform features a busby and a rifle green tunic. The...
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