Filip Konowal, a Ukrainian-Canadian immigrant who joined the regiment following the First World War after winning the country's highest military honour at the battle of Hill 70 in August 1917.

The Governor General's Foot Guards was home to Victoria Cross winners -В including Cpl. It wasn't until the Second World War that the regiment began to fightВ as one cohesive unit, trading their infantry rifles and spades for tanks and armoured personnel carriers. Vincent Quesnel.Д«uiltВ on the foundation of a militia called the Civil Service Rifle Corps, the guards regiment went on to see its members fight in almost all of the country's early military campaigns - including the Great War. in the early days of the regiment, you would have seen much more of that back-and-forth, taking one role and having it bleed into the other, but that's not the case today, for sure,' said Lt.-Col. The guards' current commanding officerВ said the line betweenВ members' lives as risk-taking reservists and as risk-adverse federal public servants is much more distinct than it was forВ hisВ predecessors. (Contributed/Governor General's Foot Guards Official History)Д«ut itВ was formed and led by members of Ottawa's civil service in response to theВ perceived threat of anВ invasion by an expansion-hungry United States following the Civil War.Д®ven today you will find 'guards' members inВ federal officesВ across the city.

The militia unit was forerunner of the Governor General's Foot Guards regiment, which turns 150 today. Members of the Civil Service Rifle Corps in 1866.

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