Great War Details of the 69th Annapolis Regiment and 75th Lunenburg Regiment were placed called out on active service on 6 August 1914 for local protection duties. 29 February 1940 The regiment mobilized as The West Nova Scotia Regiment, CASF, for active service on 1 September 1939. The unit then embarked on for Great Britain on 21 December 1939 arriving in Gourock, Scotland, on 29 December 1939. The unit arrived by train from Scotland in the Farnborough / Cove area of Surrey on New Year's Day 1940 and were billeted at
Guillemont Barracks. The unit was redesignated as the 1st Battalion, The West Nova Scotia Regiment, CASF, on 7 November 1940. It landed in Sicily on 10 July 1943, and in Italy on 3 September 1943, as part of the 3rd Infantry Brigade,
1st Canadian Infantry Division. On 19 March 1945, the battalion moved with the I Canadian Corps to North West Europe, where it fought until the end of the war. The overseas battalion was disbanded on 15 October 1945. On 1 June 1945, a second Active Force component of the regiment was mobilized for service in the Pacific theatre of operations designated as the 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion (The West Nova Scotia Regiment), CASF. Following
VJ-Day the battalion was disbanded on 1 November 1945.
Post war Individual members of the West Nova Scotia Regiment with Canadian Contingents on United Nations and NATO peacekeeping missions in countries such as the former
Yugoslavia,
Cyprus and the
Middle East.
War in Afghanistan The regiment contributed an aggregate of more than 20% of its authorized strength to the various Task Forces which served in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2014. == Alliances ==