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The Queen's Colour and Regimental Colour of the 1st Battalion The Green Howards.

THE REGIMENTAL BATTLE HONOURS

Malplaquet, Belle Isle, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Tirah
Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902

THE GREAT WAR
Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917,  Langemarck 1914, 1917,  Gheluvelt
Neuve Chapelle,  St Julien,  Frezenburg,  Bellewaarde
Aubers,  Festubert 1915,  Loos,  Somme 1916-1918
Albert 1916,  Bazentin,  Poziers,  Flers-Courcelet,  Morval
Thiepval,  Le Transloy,  Ancre Heights,  Ancre 1916
Arras 1917, 1918,  Scarpe 1917-18,  Messines 1917, 1918
Pilckem,  Menin Road,  Polygon Wood,  Broodseinde
Poelcappelle,  Passchendaele,  Cambrai 1917-18,  St Quentin
Hindenburg Line,  Canal du Nord,  Beaurevoir,  Selle
Valenciennes,  Sambre,  France and Flanders 1914-18,  Piave
Vittorio Veneto,  Italy 1917-18,  Suvla,  Landing at Suvla
Scimitar Hill,  Gallipoli 1915,  Egypt 1916,  Archangel 1918

Afghanistan 1919

THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Otta,  Norway 1940,  Defence of Arras,  Dunkirk 1940
Normandy Landing,  Tilly sur Seulles,  St Pierre La Vielle,  Gheel
Nede'rijn,  North West Europe 1940, 1944-45,  Gazala
Defence of Alamein Line,  El Alamein,  Mareth,  Akarit
North Africa 1942-43,  Landing in Sicily,  Lentini,  Sicily 1943
Minturno,  Anzio,  Italy 1943-44,  Arakan Beaches
Burma 1945
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