NORMANDY CHALLENGE:
SPONSORSHIP
sponsor A RIFLEMAN
I am competing in the Normandy Challenge March to raise funds for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day Trip. The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada will deploy a 65-member contingent to Normandy, France from June 1st to 8th, 2024. This will be a privately funded trip with no DND funding expected. As a result, the unit will be seeking funding support in order to allow its members to travel to Normandy in memory of the 61 Riflemen killed in action.
The estimated cost per member is $3000 CDN. Your donation goes towards their trip expenses, including airfare, ground transportation, and accommodations. If you would like to make a donation in support of a participant in the Challenge March, please specify their name in the Recognition box.
june 6, 1944
The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada have the unique honor of being the only Toronto-based Infantry unit to have participated in the D-Day Landings on June 6th, 1944. The unit landed during the first wave of the assault on Juno Beach, Sector Nan White—a one-kilometer piece of beach centred on the Town of Bernières-sur-Mer. The QOR suffered the highest casualties among the Canadian regiments with 143 casualties—including 61 killed in action. The Regiment advanced 12 km inland to the town of Anisy on that day, the furthest of any Allied unit.
The axis of advance for the QOR of C on June 6th, 1944 is marked by multiple memorials to the Regiment. Additional monuments to the QOR exist in Normandy in Giberville (Caen) and Le Mesnil-Patry.