Battle Honours
Although now an Australian Army Reserve battalion, the 12th/40th holds more Battle and Theatre honours than any other unit in the Australian Army. These are displayed on the Queen's and Regimental Colours.
- Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902, South Africa 1900–1902.
- World War I: Somme 1916–1918, Passchendale, St Quentin Canal, Pozieres, Ancre 1918, France and Flanders 1916–1918, Bullecourt, Lys, Anzac, Messines 1917, Hazebrouck, Somme 1918, Ypres 1917, Amiens, LANDING AT ANZAC, Menin Road, Albert 1918, Defence of ANZAC, Polygon Wood, Mont St Quentin, Suvla, Broodseinde, Hindenburg Line, Sari Bair–Lone Pine, Poelcappelle, Epehy, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915–1916.
- World War II: North Africa 1941, Sanananda Road, Liberation of Australian New Guinea, Defence of Tobruk,Cape Endaiadere–Sinemi Creek, The Salient 1941, Finisterres, Milne Bay, Shaggy Ridge, Sanananda–Cape Killerton, Balikpapan, South West Pacific 1942–1945, Goodenough Island, Borneo, Koepang, South West Pacific 1942, Buna and Gona.
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Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or honours:
“One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about twenty thousand on each side with the pox.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)