April 4

1848:

8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's): Regi Patriaeque Fidelis

1916:

Canadian soldiers relieve British troops on the Western Front at St. Eloi. By daybreak the troops will come under heavy German artillery which will decimate their packed ranks.

1918:

Battle of the AVRE

1942:

Squadron Leader L.J. Birchall and his crew, flying a PBY-5 flying boat, spot a Japanese naval force heading for the island of Ceylon. Their warning allowed the island's defenders to prepare for the Japanese attempt to take the island, an attack which fail

1945:

11 Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry soldiers killed in action liberating Zutphen, Netherlands.