Battle Honours
The regiment was awarded the following battle honours:
Awarded for the actions of the 48th and 58th Regiments of Foot:
- Louisburg
- Quebec 1759
- Martinique 1762
- Havannah
- Gibraltar 1779-'83 (Awarded as a badge consisting of a castle and key with the mooto Montis Insignia Calpe.)
- Martinique 1794 (awarded 1909)
- Maida
- Egypt (Awarded as a badge of the sphinx superscribed "Egypt".)
- Douro
- Talavera
- Albuera
- Badajoz
- Salamanca
- Vittoria
- Pyrenees
- Nivelle
- Orthes
- Toulouse
- Peninsula
- New Zealand
- Sevastopol
- South Africa 1879
Awarded for the actions of the Northamptonshire Regiment prior to 1914:
- Tirah
- Modder River
- South Africa 1899-1902
Awarded for the actions in the First World War. Ten selected honours, shown in bold type, were displayed on the colours:
- Mons
- Retreat from Mons
- Marne 1914
- Aisne 1914, '18
- Ypres 1914, '17
- Langemarck 1914, '17
- Gheluvelt
- Nonne Boschen
- Givenchy 1914
- Neuve Chapelle
- Aubers
- Loos
- Somme 1916, '18
- Albert 1916, '18
- Bazentin
- Delville Wood
- Pozieres
- Flers-Coucelette
- Morval
- Thiepval
- Le Transloy
- Ancre Heights
- Ancre 1916, '18
- Bapaume 1917, '18
- Arras 1917, '18
- Vimy 1917
- Scarpe 1917, '18
- Arleux
- Messines 1917
- Pilckem
- Passchendaele
- Cambrai 1917, '18
- St Quentin
- Rosieres
- Avre
- Villers Bretonneux
- Amiens
- Drocourt-Queant
- Hindenburg Line
- Epehy
- St Quentin Canal
- Selle
- Sambre
- France and Flanders 1914-'18
- Suvla
- Landing at Suvla
- Scimitar Hill
- Gallipoli 1915
- Egypt 1915-'17
- Gaza
- El Mughar
- Nebi Samwil
- Jerusalem
- Jaffa
- Tell' Asur
- Megiddo
- Sharon
- Palestine 1917-'18
Awarded for the actions in the Second World War. Ten selected honours, shown in bold type, were displayed on the colours:
- Defence of Escaut
- Defence of Arras
- Ypres-Comines Canal
- North-West Europe 1940, '45
- Djediada
- Djebel Djaffa
- Oued Zarga
- Djebel Tanngoucha
- Sidi Ahmed
- North Africa 1942-'43
- Landing in Sicily
- Adrano
- Sicily 1943
- Sangro
- Garigliano Crossing
- Anzio
- Cassino II
- Monte Gabbione
- Trasimene Line
- Monte La Pieve
- Argenta Gap
- Italy 1943-'45
- Madagascar
- Yu
- Imphal
- Tamu Road
- Bishenpur
- Monywa 1945
- Myinmu Bridgehead
- Irrawaddy
- Burma 1943-'45
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