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Battle Honours in upper case were borne on the Colours.

GIBRALTAR 1704-5, DETTINGEN, MARTINIQUE 1809, AVA, GHUZNEE 1839,
AFGHANISTAN 1839, CABOOL 1842, SEVASTOPOL, SOUTH AFRICA 1878-9, BURMA
1885-87, RELIEF OF LADYSMITH, SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902.

LE CATEAU, Retreat from Mons, MARNE 1914, 18, AISNE 1914, Armentieres
1914, YPRES 1915, 17, 18, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, HOOGE
1915, Loos, Mount Sorrel, SOMME 1916, 18, ALBERT 1916, 18, Delville
Wood, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre 1916,
18, ARRAS 1917, 18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, 18, Arleux, Langemarck
1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle,
Passchendaele, CAMBRAI 1917, 18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosieres,
Avre, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bethune, Soissonais-Ourq, Drocourt-Queant,
HINDENBURG LINE, Havrincourt, Epehy, Canal du Nord, Courtrai, Selle,
Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Gaza, El Mughar,
Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Megiddo, Sharon, PALESTINE 1917, 18, TIGRIS
1916, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1916-18, N.W. Frontier India 1915.

AFGHANISTAN 1919

Odon, Caen, Hill 112, MONT PINCON, Noireau Crossing, Seine 1944,
Nederrijn,  Geilenkirchen, Roer, RHINELAND, Cleve, Goch, Hochwald,
Xanten, RHINE, Bremen, NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45, CASSINO II,
Trasimene Line, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Capture of Forli,
COSINA CANAL CROSSING, ITALY 1944-45, Athens, Greece 1944-45, NORTH
ARAKAN, Buthidaung, NGAKYEDAUK PASS, BURMA 1943-44


The Honours for WWII were awarded in May 1958, only 17 months before the S.L.I. and D.C.L.I. amalgamated.  1st Battalion, S.L.I. carried a stand of Colours from 1864 to 1962 when the new S.&C.L.I. received its first new colours.

Thank you to Todd F. Mills for this information.
tomills@du.edu
University of Denver Library, Denver, Colorado 80208, USA

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