Duke of Wellington's Regiment - Battle Honours

Battle Honours

  • War of the Austrian Succession
    Dettingen
  • India
    Hindoostan, Mysore, Seringapatam, Ally Ghur, Delhi 1803, Leswaree, Deig
  • Spain:
    Corunna
  • France:
    Nive, Peninsular, Waterloo
  • Crimean War:
    Alma, Inkerman,
  • Abyssinia:
    Sevastopol, Abyssinia
  • South Africa:
    Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1900-02
  • World War I:
    Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 and 1918, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914, 1915 and 1917, Nonne Bosschen, Hill 60, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Aubers, Somme 1916 and 1918, Albert 1916 and 1918, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 and 1918, Scarpe 1917 and 1918, Arleux, Bullecourt, Messines 1917 and 1918, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 and 1918, St Quentin, Ancre 1918, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Bethune, Scherpenberg, Tardenois, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épehy, Canal du Nord, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916
  • Third Anglo-Afghan War
    Afghanistan 1919
  • World War II:
    Dunkirk 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, Tilly sur Seulles, Odon, Fontenay Le Pesnil, North-West Europe 1940 and 1944-45, Banana Ridge, Medjez Plain, Gueriat el Atach Ridge, Tunis, Djebel Bou Aoukaz 1943, North Africa 1943, Anzio, Campoleone, Rome, Monte Ceco, Italy 1943-45, Sittang 1942, Paungde, Kohima, Chindits 1944, Burma Campaign (1942-44)
  • Korea:
    The Hook 1953, Korea 1952-53
  • Iraq:
    Iraq 2003 (Theatre Honour)

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