Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) - Battle Honours

Battle Honours

The honours in capital lettering were worn on the Colours. The regiment was awarded 116 battle honours.

War of the Spanish Succession, (Queen Anne's War)

  • BLENHEIM (1704) = 1st Battalion.
  • RAMILLES (1706) = 1st Battalion.
  • OUDENARDE (1708) = 1st Battalion.
  • MALPLAQUET (1709) = 1st Battalion.

War of the Austrian Succession, (King George's War)

  • DETTINGEN (1743) = 1st Battalion.

Seven Years' War, (French and Indian War)

  • GUADELOUPE 1759 = 1st Battalion.
  • Belleisle (1761) = 1st Battalion.

Napoleonic Wars

  • DOURO (1809) = 1st Battalion.
  • TALAVERA (1809) = 1st Battalion.
  • ALBUHERA (1811) = 1st Battalion.
  • VITTORIA (1813) = 1st Battalion.
  • PYRENEES (1813) = 1st Battalion.
  • NIVELLE (1813)= 1st Battalion.
  • NIVE (1813) = 1st Battalion.
  • ORTHES (1814) = 1st Battalion.
  • TOULOUSE (1814) = 1st Battalion.
  • PENINSULA (1808–13) = 1st Battalion.

"Pax Britannia"

  • PUNNIAR (1843) Gwalior Campaign = 1st Battalion.
  • SEVASTOPOL (1855) Crimean War = 1st Battalion.
  • TAKU FORTS (1860) Second Opium War = 1st Battalion.
  • SOUTH AFRICA 1879 Zulu War = 2nd Battalion.
  • CHITRAL (1895) North-West Frontier = 1st Battalion.
  • RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY (1900) Second Anglo-Boer War = 2nd Battalion.
  • PAARDEBERG (1900) Second Anglo-Boer War = 3rd Battalion.
  • SOUTH AFRICA 1900-02 Second Anglo-Boer War = 2nd & 3rd Battalions.

World War I (1914–1919)

  • Aisne (1914)= 1st Battalion.
  • ARMENTIERES 1914 = 1st Battalion.
  • YPRES 1915-17 = 2nd, 7th & 8th Battalions.
  • Gravenstafel 1915 = 2nd Battalion.
  • St. Julien 1915 = 2nd Battalion.
  • Frezenberg (1915) = 2nd Battalion.
  • Bellewaarde (1915) = 2nd Battalion.
  • Hooge 1915 = 1st Battalion.
  • LOOS (1915) = 2nd, 6th, & 8th Battalions.
  • Somme 1916-18 = 1st, 6th, 7th, & 8th Battalions
  • Albert 1916-18 = 6th & 7th Battalions.
  • Bazentin (1916) = 7th Battalion.
  • Delville Wood (1916) = 8th Battalion.
  • Poziers (1916) = 6th Battalion.
  • Flers-Courcelette (1916) = 1st Battalion.
  • Morval (1916) = 1st Battalion.
  • Thiepval (1916) = 7th Battalion.
  • Le Transloy (1916) = 6th Battalion.
  • Ancre Heights (1916) = 7th Battalion.
  • Ancre 1916-18 = 6th & 7th Battalions.
  • Arras 1917 = 6th & 7th Battalions.
  • Scarpe 1917 = 7th Battalion.
  • Messines 1917 = 8th Battalion.
  • Pilckem (1917) = 8th Battalion.
  • Passchendale (1917) = 7th Battalion.
  • Cambrai 1917-1918 = 1st & 6th Battalions.
  • St. Quentin (1918) = 1st & 6th Battalions.
  • Avre (1918) = 7th Battalion.
  • Amiens (1918) = 6th & 7th Battalions.
  • Bapaume (1918) = 7th & 10th Battalions.
  • HINDENBURG LINE (1918) = 1st, 6th, 7th, & 10th Battalions.
  • Épehy (1918)= 1st, 6th, 7th, & 10th Battalions.
  • St. Quentin Canal (1918) = 1st & 6th Battalions.
  • Selle (1918) = 1st & 7th Battalions.
  • Sambre (1918) = 7th Battalion.
  • France and Flanders 1914-18 = 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th & 10th Battalions.
  • STRUMA (1916–17) = 2nd Battalion.
  • Doiran (1918) = 2nd Battalion.
  • Macedonia 1915-18 = 2nd Battalion.
  • Gaza (1917) = 10th Battalion.
  • JERUSALEM (1917) = 10th Battalion.
  • Tel Asur (1918) = 10th Battalion.
  • Palestine 1917-18 = 10th Battalion.
  • Aden (1915–16) = 4th Battalion.
  • Tigris (1916) = 5th Battalion.
  • Kut al Amara 1917 = 5th Battalion.
  • BAGDAD (1917) = 5th Battalion.
  • Mesopotamia 1915-18 = 5th Battalion.

World War II (1939–1945)

  • Defence of Escaut (1940) = 2nd Battalion.
  • St. Omer-La Basse (1940) = 2nd Battalion.
  • Withdrawal to Seine (1940) = 4th Battalion.
  • NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1940 = 2nd, 4th, & 5th Battalions.
  • Sidi Suleiman (1941) = 1st Battalion.
  • ALEM HAMZA (1941)= 1st Battalion.
  • Alam El Halfa (1942)= 2nd Battalion.
  • EL ALAMEIN (1942)= 2nd Battalion.
  • El Agheila (1942) = 1st Battalion.
  • Advance on Tripoli (1942–43) = 1st Battalion.
  • Tebaga Gap (1943) = 1st Battalion.
  • El Hamma (1943) = 1st Battalion.
  • Akarit (1943)= 1st Battalion.
  • Djebel Azzag (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • ROBAA VALLEY (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • Djebel Bech Chekaoui (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • Heidous (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • Medjez Plain (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • Long Stop Hill (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • North Africa 1941-1943 1st, 2nd, & 5th Battalions.
  • Centuripe (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • Monte Rivoglia (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • SICILY 1943 = 5th Battalion.
  • Termoli (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • TRIGNO (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • Sangro (1943) = 5th Battalion.
  • ANZIO (1944) = 1st Battalion.
  • Cassino I (1944) = 5th Battalion.
  • Liri Valley (1944) = 5th Battalion.
  • Aquino (1944) = 5th Battalion.
  • Rome (1944) = 1st Battalion.
  • Trasimene Line (1944) = 5th Battalion.
  • Coriano (1944) = 1st Battalion.
  • Monte Spaduro (1944) = 1st Battalion.
  • Senio (1945) 5th Battalion.
  • ARGENTA GAP (1945) = 1st & 5th Battalions.
  • Italy 1943-45 = 1st & 5th Battalions.
  • LEROS (1943) = 4th Battalion.
  • Middle East 1943= 2nd Battalion.
  • Malta 1940-42 = 4th Battalion.
  • SHWELI (1945) = 2nd Battalion.
  • Myitson (1945) = 2nd Battalion.
  • Burma 1945 = 2nd Battalion.

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