30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot - Battle Honours

Battle Honours

The 30th Foot was granted the following battle honours and honorary distinctions to be borne on their colours. The year shown is the year of the award, not the action.

  • Badajoz (1825)
  • Salamanca (1830)
  • Peninsula (1815 to 2nd Battalion: to whole regiment in 1827)
  • Waterloo (1815 to 2nd Battalion: to whole regiment in 1827)
  • Alma (1855)
  • The sphinx superscribed "EGYPT"(1802)
  • Inkerman (1855)
  • Sevastopol (1855)

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