Battle Honours
The regiment carries the following battle honours awarded to its predecessors:
- Egypt, Salamanca, Peninsula, Waterloo, Punniar, Sobraon, Chillianwallah, Goojerat, Punjaub, South Africa 1851-53, Sevastopol, Delhi 1857, Lucknow, Central India, Charasiah, Kabul 1878, Kandahar 1880, Afghanistan 1878-80, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902
- Great War: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914, Ypres 1914-18, Somme 1916-18, Arras 1917, Cambrai 1917-18, Rosieres, Sambre, Pursuit to Mons
- Second World War: Dyle, Dunkirk 1940, Somme 1940, NW Europe 1940, Chor Es Sufan, Gazala, Rusweisat, El Alamein, El Hamma, Tunis, N Africa 1941-43, Lamone Bridgehead, Argenta Gap, Bologna, Italy 1944-45
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