Battle Honours
The Nova Scotia Highlanders have received 56 battle honours since the unit's inception.
They are:
Early history
- South Africa, 1899–1900
First World War
- Ypres, 1915, '17
- Festubert, 1915
- Mount Sorrel
- Somme, 1916, '18
- Flers-Courcelette
- Thiepval
- Ancre Heights
- Arras, 1917, '18
- Vimy, 1917
- Arleux
- Scarpe, 1917, '18
- Hill 70
- Passchendaele
- Amiens
- Drocourt-Quéant
- Hindenburg Line
- Canal du Nord
- Cambrai, 1918
- Valenciennes
- Sambre
- France and Flanders, 1915–18
Second World War
- Liri Valley
- Melfa Crossing
- Ceprano
- Gothic Line
- Montecchio
- Coriano
- Lamone Crossing
- Fosso Munio
- Conventello-Comacchio
- Italy, 1944–1945
- Normandy Landing
- Authie
- Caen
- The Orne
- Bourguébus Ridge
- Faubourg de Vaucelles
- Verrières Ridge–Tilly-la-Campagne
- Falaise
- The Laison
- Chambois
- Boulogne, 1944
- Calais, 1944
- The Scheldt
- Savojaards Plaat
- Breskens Pocket
- The Rhineland
- Waal Flats
- The Hochwald
- The Rhine
- Zutphen
- IJsselmeer
- Leer
- Delfzijl Pocket
- North-West Europe, 1944–1945.
NOTE: The honours in bold appear on the Nova Scotia Highlanders regimental colours.
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