First Battle Honour
The first regimental battle honour was bestowed in 1900–02, when the unit provided two companies of Imperial Yeomanry for service in South Africa.
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Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or honour:
“How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we are marching into battle against an enemy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“When other Ladies to the Shades go down,
Still Flavia, Chloris, Celia stay in Town;
Those Ghosts of Beauty ling’ring there abide,
And haunt the places where their Honour dy’d.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)