Battle Honours
The regiment was awarded the following battle honours for display on the colours:
Displayed on the regimental colours
- Gibraltar 1704–5
- Dettingen
- Martinique 1809
- Ava
- Ghuznee 1839
- Affghanistan 1839 (sic)
- Cabool 1842
- Sevastopol
- South Africa 1878–9
- Burma 1885–87
- Relief of Ladysmith
- South Africa 1899–1902
- Afghanistan 1919
- The sphinx superscribed "Egypt"
- A mural crown superscribed "Jellalabad"
First World War
Battle honours in bold were selected for display on the King's/Queen's Colours.
- Le Cateau
- Retreat from Mons
- Marne 1914 '18
- Aisne 1914
- Armentières 1914
- Ypres 1915 '17 '18
- St. Julien
- Frezenberg
- Bellewaarde
- Hooge 1915
- Loos
- Mount Sorrel
- Somme 1916 '18
- Albert 1916 '18
- Delville Wood
- Guillemont
- Flers-Courcelette
- Morval
- Le Transloy
- Ancre 1916 '18
- Arras 1917 '18
- Vimy 1917
- Scarpe 1917 '18
- Arleux
- Langemarck 1917
- Menin Road
- Polygon Wood
- Broodseinde
- Poelcappelle
- Passchendaele
- Cambrai 1917 '18
- St. Quentin
- Bapaume 1918
- Rosières
- Avre
- Lys
- Hazebrouck
- Béthune
- Soissonais-Ourq
- Drocourt-Quéant
- Hindenburg Line
- Havrincourt
- Épehy
- Canal du Nord
- Courtrai
- Selle
- Valenciennes
- Sambre
- France and Flanders 1914–18
- Gaza
- El Mughar
- Nebi Samwil
- Jerusalem
- Megiddo
- Sharon
- Palestine 1917 '18
- Tigris 1916
- Sharqat
- Mesopotamia 1916–18
- N.W. Frontier India 1915
Second World War
Battle honours in bold were selected for display on the King's/Queen's Colours.
- 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
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