First Hussars Regiment Crest

First Hussars

The 1st Hussars is an armoured Primary Reserve regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces, based in London and Sarnia, Ontario.

In memory of those who served with honour and sacrifice

In Remembrance

We honour the memory of all soldiers who served in the First Hussars Regiment. Their courage, dedication, and sacrifice will never be forgotten.

"Lest We Forget"

Today in WWII

Brenner summit, Corsica freed, and British landings in Greece

On this day in World War II — October 4

1940 — Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass to discuss the war situation and strategy, including Spain. The same day, Vichy France announces that foreign Jews in the unoccupied zone may be interned; tens of thousands will be sent to camps, where hundreds die that winter in harsh conditions.

1942 — British commandos raid German-occupied Sark in the Channel Islands and take one prisoner. On the Eastern Front, German forces open a major assault aimed at Stalingrad's tractor factory.

1943 — Free French forces secure Corsica. In the only U.S. fleet-carrier action in the North Atlantic, aircraft from USS Ranger, working with the Royal Navy, attack German convoys off Bodø, Norway, and sink five ships. Organised British resistance on Kos ends.

1944 — British paratroopers land at Patras, Greece, and on Crete and other Aegean islands as Allied intervention in Greece begins (Operation Manna). U.S. Sixth Army secures Morotai in the Netherlands East Indies. Canadian angle: First Canadian Army is fighting the Battle of the Scheldt to clear the estuary and open Antwerp to Allied shipping; Veterans Affairs Canada records fierce early-October fighting by Canadian formations north of Antwerp and toward the Leopold Canal. That same day, Montreal novelist Gwethalyn Graham's Earth and High Heaven is published; it will become the first Canadian novel to reach No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

1945 — In occupied Japan, U.S. authorities remove restrictions on freedoms of press and assembly, dissolve the Special Higher Police, abolish laws that had imprisoned leftists, and release political prisoners.

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The First Hussars have a distinguished history of service to Canada, spanning conflicts and peacekeeping missions around the world.

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