Battle Honours
The regiment has many battle honours from Blenheim in 1704 through to the Second World War. Their most famous engagement took place at Waterloo on 18 June 1815.
Battle honours of the Scots Greys:
- War of Spanish Succession: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet
- War of Austrian Succession: Dettingen
- Seven Years War: Warburg, Willems
- Napoleonic Wars: Waterloo
- Crimean War: Balaclava, Sevastopol
- Second Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg
- First World War: Retreat from Mons; Marne 1914; Aisne 1914; Ypres 1914, 1915; Arras 1917; Amiens; Somme 1918; Hindenburg Line; Pursuit to Mons; France and Flanders 1914-18. Mons; Messines 1914; Gheluvelt; Neuve Chapelle; St Julien; Bellewaarde; Scarpe 1917; Cambrai 1917, 1918; Lys; Hazebrouck; Albert 1918; Bapaume 1918; St Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir.
- Second World War: Hill 112; Falaise; Hochwald; Aller; Bremen; Merjayun; Alam el Halfa; El Alamein; Nofilia; Salerno; Italy 1943; Caen; Venlo Pocket; North-West Europe 1944-5; Syria 1941; El Agheila; Advance on Tripoli; North Africa 1942-3; Battipaglia; Volturno Crossing.
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