Battle Honours
The 1st Foot Guards have received 79 battle honours, which they gained for their involvement in the following conflicts:
- various actions near the Strait of Gibraltar
- the War of the Spanish Succession, including Oudenarde
- the War of the Austrian Succession
- the Peninsular War
- the Napoleonic Wars, including Waterloo
- the Crimean War
- the Urabi Revolt
- the Opium Wars
- the Sudan Campaign
- the Boer Wars
- First World War (Western Front) and Second World War (North Africa, Italy, Northwest Europe)
- the Persian Gulf War
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