Battle Honours
- First World War: Ypres 1915 & 17, Festubert 1915, Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916 & 18, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 & 18, Vimy 1917, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, Scarpe 1918, Hindenburg Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai 1918, Pursuit to Mons, France & Flanders 1915-18
- Second World War: Dieppe Raid (1942), Battle of Verrières Ridge (1944), liberation of Dieppe (1944), Battle of the Scheldt (1944), The Rhine (1944–1945), Northwestern Europe
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