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The Battle Honours in Heavy type are entitled to be
borne on the colours
On
a square of crimson, a cross patte throughout silver, charged with a
sphinx couchant upon a pedestal inscribed 'Egypt', all gold. A Sphinx
within a laurel wreath upon a pedestal inscribed 'Egypt'.
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Battle
Honours |
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Pre First World War |
| ‘Ramillies’
‘Louisburg’ ‘Guadaloupe 1759’ ‘Quebec 1759’ ‘Martinque
1762’ ‘Havannah’ ‘St Lucia 1778’
‘Egmont-op-Zee’ ‘Copenhagen’
‘Maida’ ‘Corunna’ 'Douro' ‘Talavera’ ‘Busaco’ ‘Barrosa’
‘Albuhera’ ‘Queenstown’
‘Salamanca’ ‘Vittoria’ ‘Pyrenees’ ‘Nivelle’
‘Nive’ ‘Orthes’ ‘Toulouse’ ‘Peninsula’ ‘Waterloo’
‘New Zealand’ ‘Ferozeshah’ ‘Sobraon’ ‘Chillianwallah’
‘Goojerat’ ‘Punjaub’ ‘Alma’ ‘Inkerman’
‘Sevastopol’ ‘Delhi 1857’ 'Pekin
1860' ‘Kandahar 1880’ ‘Afghanistan’
1879-80’ ‘Egypt 1882’ ‘Tofrek’‘Suakin 1885’ ‘ ‘Defence of Ladysmith’ ‘Relief of Kimberley’
‘Paardeburg’ ‘South Africa 1879, 1899-1902’
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The Great War 1914-1919 |
| ‘Mons’ ‘Retreat from Mons’ ‘Le Cateau’
‘Marne 1914’ ‘Aisne 1914, 1918’ ‘La Basse 1914’ ‘Messines 1914, 1917, 1918’
‘Armentieres 1914’ ‘Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917’
‘Langemarck 1914, 1917’ ‘Gheluvelt’ ‘NonneBosschen’
‘Givenchy 1914’ ‘Neuve Chapelle’ ‘Gravenstafel’
‘St Julian’ ‘Frezenberg’ ‘Bellewaarde’ ‘Aubers’
‘Festubert 1915’ ‘Loos’
‘Somme 1916, 1918’ ‘Albert 1916, 1918’ ‘Bazentin’
‘Delville Wood’ ‘Pozieres’ ‘Guillemont’
‘Flers-Corcelette’ ‘Morval’ ‘Thiepval’ ‘LeTransloy’ ‘Ancre Heights’ ‘Ancre 1916,1918’
‘ ‘Arras 1917, 1918’ ‘Vimy 1917’ ‘Scarpe 1917,
1918’ ‘Messines
1917,18’ ‘Arleux’ ‘Pilckem’
’Menin Road’ ‘Polygon Wood’ ‘Broodseinde’
‘Poelcappelle’ ‘Passchendaele’ ‘Cambrai 1917, 1918’
‘St Quentin’ ‘Bapaume 1918’ ‘Rosieres’ ‘Avre’
‘Villers Bretonneux’
‘Lys’ ‘Estaires’ ‘Hazebrouck’ ‘Bailleul’
‘Kemmel’ ‘Bethune’ ‘Scherpenberg’ ‘Amiens’
‘Drocourt Queant’ ‘Hindenburg Line’ ‘Havrincourt’
‘Epehy’ ‘Canal du Nord’ ‘St Quentin Canal’
‘Beaurevoir’ ‘Selle’ ‘Valenciennes’ ‘Sambre’
‘France and Flanders 1914 –1918’ ‘Paive’ ‘Vittorio
Vento’ ‘Italy 1917 –1918’ ‘Struma’ ‘Dorian 1917,
1918’ ‘Macedonia 1915 -1918’ ‘Sulva’ ‘Saria Bair’
‘Smimitar Hill’ ‘Gallipoli’ 1915 -1916‘ ‘Egypt
1916’ ‘Gaza’ ‘Nebi Samwil’ ‘Jeruslem’ ‘Megiddo’
‘Sharon’ ‘Palestine 1917 –1918’
‘Tigris 1916’ ‘Kut al Amara 1917’ ‘Baghdad’
‘Mesopotamia 1916 –1918’ ‘Persia 1918’
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The Second World War |
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second World War --- ‘Dyle’ ‘Defence of Escaut’
‘Defence of Arras’ ‘St Omer La Bassee’ ‘Wormboudt’ ‘Cassel’
‘Ypres-Comines Canal’ ‘Dunkirk 1940’ ‘Normandy
Landing’ ‘Villers Bocage’
‘Odon’ ‘Caen’
‘Hill 112’ ‘Bourguebus Ridge’ ‘Malot’
‘Mount Pincon’ ‘La Varinere’
‘Falaise’ ‘Risle Crossing’
‘Seine 1944’ ‘La Harve’
‘Nederrijn’ ‘Roer’ ‘Zeten’
‘Rhineland’ 'Cleve' ‘Goch’ ‘Xanten’ ‘Rhine’
‘Bremen’ ‘North
West Europe 1940, 44-45’ ‘Solarino’ ‘Simeto Bridgehead’
‘Pursuit to Messina‘ ‘Sicily 1943’
‘Monte Camino’ ‘Calabritto’ ‘Garigliano
Crossing’ ‘Minturno’ ‘Damiano’ ‘Anzio’ ‘Carroceto’
‘Rome’ ‘Advance to Tiber’ ‘Italy 1943-1945’
‘ Middle East 1942’ ‘Taukyan’ ‘Paungde’
‘Monywa 1942’ ‘Donbaik’‘North Arakan’ ‘Point
531’ ‘Mayu Tunnels’
Ngakyedauk Pass’ ‘Kohima’ ‘Mao Songsang’
‘Pinwe’ ‘Shweli Schwebo’ ‘Kyaukmyaung
Bridgehead’ ‘Mandalay’ ‘Fort Dufferin’ ‘Rangoon
Road’ ‘Myitson’ ‘Toungoo’
‘Burma 1942 –1945’ |
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The Korean War |
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‘Hill
327’ ‘Imjin’ ‘Korea 1950-51’
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NOTE…All
but four of the Battle Honours displayed on the Gloucestershire
Regiment and
Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment, Regimental Colours were carried forward to be displayed on the
Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiments Colours,
those omitted were : -
Gloucestershire
Regiment BUSACO
D.E.R.R.
DYLE, DAMIANO and CLEVE
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