Battle Honours
The regiment was awarded the following battle honours:
The Royal Tiger superscribed "Hindoostan".
Nine Years' War
- Namur, 1695
Seven Years' War
- Louisburg
- Martinique, 1762
- Havannah
First Anglo-Afghan War
- Ghuznee, 1839
- Khelat
- Afghanistan, 1839
Crimean War
- Sevastopol
Second Anglo-Afghan War
- Ali Masjid
- Afghanistan, 1878-79
Second Boer War
- Defence of Ladysmith
- South Africa, 1899-1902
First World War. (Ten selected honours, shown in bold type, were borne on the colours.)
- Aisne, 1914, '18
- La Bassee, 1914
- Armentieres, 1914
- Festubert 1914, '15
- Neuve Chapelle
- Aubers
- Hooge, 1915
- Somme, 1916, '18
- Bazentin
- Flers-Courcelette
- Morval
- Le Transloy
- Ypres, 1917
- Polygon Wood
- Cambrai, 1917, '18
- St Quentin
- Lys
- Bailleul
- Kemmel
- Scherpenberg
- Albert, 1918
- Bapaume, 1918
- Hindenburg Line
- Épehy
- St Quentin Canal
- Beaurevoir
- Selle
- Sambre
- France and Flanders, 1914-18
- Megiddo
- Sharon
- Damascus
- Palestine, 1918
- Tigris, 1916
- Kut-el-Amara, 1917
- Baghdad
- Mesopotamia, 1915-18
Second World War. (Ten selected honours, shown in bold type, were borne on the colours.)
- Norway, 1940
- Antwerp-Turnhout Canal
- Scheldt
- Zetten
- North-West Europe, 1944-45
- Jebel Mazar
- Syria, 1941
- Sidi Barrani
- Tobruk, 1941
- Montaigne Farm
- North Africa, 1940-41, '43
- Salerno
- Calabritto
- Gothic Line
- Monte Gridolfo
- Monte Colombo
- Italy, 1943-45
- Crete
- Heraklion
- Kampar
- Malaya, 1941-42
- Chindits, 1944
Korean War:
- Maryang-San
- Korea, 1951-52
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