Somerset Light Infantry - Battle Honours

Battle Honours

The regiment was awarded the following battle honours for display on the colours:

Displayed on the regimental colours

  • Gibraltar 1704–5
  • Dettingen
  • Martinique 1809
  • Ava
  • Ghuznee 1839
  • Affghanistan 1839 (sic)
  • Cabool 1842
  • Sevastopol
  • South Africa 1878–9
  • Burma 1885–87
  • Relief of Ladysmith
  • South Africa 1899–1902
  • Afghanistan 1919
  • The sphinx superscribed "Egypt"
  • A mural crown superscribed "Jellalabad"

First World War
Battle honours in bold were selected for display on the King's/Queen's Colours.

  • Le Cateau
  • Retreat from Mons
  • Marne 1914 '18
  • Aisne 1914
  • Armentières 1914
  • Ypres 1915 '17 '18
  • St. Julien
  • Frezenberg
  • Bellewaarde
  • Hooge 1915
  • Loos
  • Mount Sorrel
  • Somme 1916 '18
  • Albert 1916 '18
  • Delville Wood
  • Guillemont
  • Flers-Courcelette
  • Morval
  • Le Transloy
  • Ancre 1916 '18
  • Arras 1917 '18
  • Vimy 1917
  • Scarpe 1917 '18
  • Arleux
  • Langemarck 1917
  • Menin Road
  • Polygon Wood
  • Broodseinde
  • Poelcappelle
  • Passchendaele
  • Cambrai 1917 '18
  • St. Quentin
  • Bapaume 1918
  • Rosières
  • Avre
  • Lys
  • Hazebrouck
  • Béthune
  • Soissonais-Ourq
  • Drocourt-Quéant
  • Hindenburg Line
  • Havrincourt
  • Épehy
  • Canal du Nord
  • Courtrai
  • Selle
  • Valenciennes
  • Sambre
  • France and Flanders 1914–18
  • Gaza
  • El Mughar
  • Nebi Samwil
  • Jerusalem
  • Megiddo
  • Sharon
  • Palestine 1917 '18
  • Tigris 1916
  • Sharqat
  • Mesopotamia 1916–18
  • N.W. Frontier India 1915

Second World War
Battle honours in bold were selected for display on the King's/Queen's Colours.

  • Odon
  • Caen
  • Hill 112
  • Mont Pincon
  • Noireau Crossing
  • Seine 1944
  • Nederrijn
  • Geilenkirchen
  • Roer
  • Rhineland
  • Cleve
  • Goch
  • Hochwald
  • Xanten
  • Rhine
  • Bremen
  • North-West Europe 1944–45
  • Cassino II
  • Trasimene Line
  • Arezzo
  • Advance to Florence
  • Capture of Forli
  • Cosina Canal Crossing
  • Italy 1944–45
  • Athens
  • Greece 1944–45
  • North Arakan
  • Buthidaung
  • Ngakyedauk Pass
  • Burma 1943–44

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