Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry - Battle Honours

Battle Honours

The regiment's battle honours (with the exception of Iraq 2003) are summarised and illustrated in the picture of the RWY guidon which forms the frontispiece of the Regimental history.

Boer War

  • South Africa 1900–01

World War I

  • Ypres 1917
  • Broodseinde
  • Passchendaele
  • Somme 1918
  • St. Quentin
  • Bapaume 1918
  • Lys
  • Messines 1918
  • Bailleul
  • Kemmel
  • France and Flanders 1916–18

World War II

  • Iraq 1941
  • Palmyra
  • Syria 1941
  • El Alamein
  • North Africa 1942
  • Liri Valley
  • Advance to Tiber
  • Citta della Pieve
  • Trasimene Line
  • Advance to Florence
  • Monte Cedrone
  • Citta di Castello
  • Italy 1944

Iraq War (as Royal Yeomanry)

  • Iraq 2003

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