World War Two

BOURGUEBUS RIDGE
Woensdrecht
FAUBOURG DE VAUCELLES
South Beveland
VERRIERES RIDGE -- TILLY-LA-CAMPAGNE
WALCHEREN CAUSEWAY
THE RHINELAND
Falaise
THE HOCHWALD
Clair Tizon
Xanten
FORTE DE LA LONDE
The Rhine
Dunkirk, 1944
Groningen
Antwerp-Turnhout Canal
OLDENBURG
THE SCHELDT
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945

All members of the Regiment wear the distinctive red hackle. The Regiment wore the Red Hackle in its bonnets during its early days but, because of its legend as a battle honour, the Canadian units of the Black Watch did not wear the Red Hackle upon proceeding overseas during the First World War of 1914-1918. Due to the gallantry or the 13th Battalion CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Force) during the first gas attack in the Second Battle of the Ypres in 1915, and the three Canadian Battalions of the Black Watch in the Battle of Vimy Ridge during Easter in 1917. So impressed was the commander of the Imperial Black Watch, that an order was given to allow the Canadian regiment to wear the red hackle in the bonnet in place of the cap badge. The Canadian Black Watch are only one of two regiments in the Commonwealth who wear a battle honour in place of the cap badge. The other regiment of course being the Imperial Black Watch.