Battle Honours
Western Front 1916-1918, Somme 1916, Arras, Ypres 1917, Somme 1918, Kurdistan 1922-1924, Iraq 1918-1929, Kurdistan 1930-1931, Northern Kurdistan 1932, North West Frontier 1937, Mediterranean 1940-1943, Egypt and Libya 1940-1943, Greece 1940-1941, Syria 1941, Iraq 1941, El Alamein, North Africa 1942-194, El Hamma, Sicily 1943, Italy 1943-1945, Salerno, Anzio and Nettuno, Gustav Line, Gothic Line, South East Europe 1944-1945, South Atlantic 1982, Gulf 1991.
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Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or honours:
“I remember the scenes of battle in which we stood together. I remember especially that broad and deep grave at the foot of the Resaca hill where we left those gallant comrades who fell in that desperate charge. I remember, through it all, the gallantry, devotion and steadfastness, the high-set patriotism you always exhibited.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)