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The following list of Battle Honours awarded and carried by the 1st Highland Light Infantry (71st Highland Light Infantry). The list was extracted from "The Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies, 1662-1982", by H.C.B. Cook.

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HLI 1st Bn. King's Colour

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6th Bn. H.L.I. Regimental Colours

Rolica, 1808 Vimiera, 1808
Corunna, 1809 Fuentes d'Onor, 1811
Almaraz, 1812 Vittoria, 1813
Pyrenees, 1813 Nive, 1813
Orthes, 1814 Peninsula, 1809-1814
Waterloo, 1815 Sevastopol, 1854-55
Carnatic, 1789-1792 Sholinghur, 1781
Mysore, 1789-1792 Hindoostan, 1780-1823
Central India, 1858 Cape of Good Hope, 1806
Tel-el-Kebir, 1882 Egypt, 1882
Modder River, 1899 South Africa, 1899-1902
Mons, 1914 Ypres, 1914
Ypres, 1915 Loos, 1915
Somme, 1916 Arras, 1917
Ypres, 1917 Somme, 1918
Arras, 1918 Hindenburg Line, 1918
Ypres, 1918 Palestine, 1917-18
Mesopotamia, 1915-17 Gallipoli, 1915-16
Archangel, 1919 North West Europe, 1940, 1944-45
Odon, Scheldt
Walcheren Causeway Reichswald
Rhine Cauldron
Landing in Sicily Keren
Greece, 1944-45

The following are Battle Honours awarded but not carried. From the same source cited above.

Retreat from Mons Marne, 1914
Aisne, 1914 Langemarck,
Gheluvelt Nonne Bosschen
Givenchy, 1914 France and Flanders, 1914-18
Neuve Chapelle St. Julien
Aubers Festubert, 1915
Albert, 1916 Bazentin
Deville Wood Pozieres
Flers-Courcelette Le Transloy
Ancre Heights Ancre, 1916
Vimy, 1917 Scarpe, 1917
Arleux Pilckem
Langemarck, 1917 Menin Road
Polygon Wood Passchendaele
Cambrai, 1917 St. Quentin
Bapaume, 1918 Ancre, 1918
Lys Estaires
Messines, 1918 Hozebrouck
Bailleul Kemmel
Amiens Albert, 1918
Scarpe, 1918 Drocourt-Queant
Havrincourt Canal du Nord
St. Quentin Canal Beaurevoir
Cambrai, 1918 Courtrai
Stelle Sambre
Rumani Egypt, 1916
Gaza El Mughar
Nebi Samwil Jaffa
Tigris, 1916 Kutal Amara, 1917
Sharqat Murman, 1919
Cheux Mont Pincon
Quarry Hill Falaise
Seine, 1944 Aart
Nederrijn Lower Maas
Ourthe Roer
Rhineland Goch
Weeze Ibbenburen
Aller Bremen
Gazala North Africa, 1940-42
Sicily, 1943 Italy, 1943, 1945
Abyssinia, 1941 Athens
Adriatic Middle East, 1944
Esquay Withdrawal to Cherbourg
Estry Best
South Beveland Moyland Woods
Asten Dreirwalde
Uelzen Artlenberg
Mersa Matruh Fuka
Jebel Shiba Massawa

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