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Battle Honours

The regimental colours of c. 1856 as recorded in the 2nd battalion Record of Service


Gibraltar 1704-5, Dettingen, Martinique 1809, Ava, Ghuznee 1839, Afghanistan 1839, Cabool 1842, Sevastopol, South Africa 1878-9, Burma 1885-7, Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902.

The Great War: Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, 1918, Aisne 1914, Armentieres 1914, Ypres 1915, 1917, 1918, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Hooge 1915, Loos, Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916, 1918, Albert 1916, 1918, Delville Wood, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre 1916, 1918, Arras 1917, 1918, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, 1918, Arleux, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, 1918, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosieres, Avre, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bethune, Soissonais-Ourq, Drocourt-Queant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Epehy, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-1918, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917, 1918, Tigris 1916, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1916-18, North West Frontier India 1915.

Afghanistan 1919

The Second World War: Odon, Caen, Hill 112, Mont Pincon, Noireau Crossing, Seine 1944, Nederrijn, Geilenkirchen, Roer, Rhineland, Cleve, Goch, Hochwald, Xanten, Rhine, Bremen, North-West Europe 1944-45, Cassino II, Trasimene Line, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Capture of Forli, Cosina Canal Crossing, Italy 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, North Arakan, Buthidaung, Ngakyedauk Pass, Burma 1943-44.

Those in bold were added to the colours

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