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:
“Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. That’s my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)