Royal Norfolk Regiment - Battle Honours

Battle Honours

The following honours were inherited from the 9th Regiment of Foot:

18th Century

  • Seven Years War
    • Belleisle, Havannah
  • French Revolutionary Wars
    • Martinque 1794

19th Century

  • Napoleonic Wars
    • Rolica, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Salamanca Vittoria, San Sebastián, Nive, Peninsula
  • First Anglo-Afghan War
    • Cabool 1842, Moodkee
  • First Anglo-Sikh War
    • Ferozeshah, Sobraon
  • Crimean War
    • Sevastopol
  • Second Anglo-Afghan War
    • Kabul 1879, Afghanistan 1879-80

On top of these, the (Royal) Norfolk regiment gained the following battle honours before amalgamation:

20th Century

  • Second Boer War:
    • Paardeberg, South Africa (1900-02)
  • First World War: (The regiment were permitted to display ten representative honours on the colours: these are indicated in bold text.)
    • Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Oppy, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18
    • Italy 1917-18
    • Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915
    • Egypt 1915-17,
    • Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18
    • Shaiba, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Mesopotamia 1914-18
  • Second World War
    • St Omer-La Bassée, North-West Europe 1940
    • Normandy Landing, Brieux Bridgehead, Venray, Rhineland, North-West Europe 1944-45,
    • Singapore Island, Kohima, Aradura (1944–1945 ), Burma 1944-45
  • Korean War (1950–1953)

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