The remaining 21 are emblazoned on the Regimental Colour.ĭettingen, Mysore, Seringapatam, Ally Ghur, Delhi 1803, Leswaree, Deig, Corunna, Nive, Peninsular, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevastopol, Abyssinia, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, South Africa 1900–02 Of these the groups of ten each for World War 1 and World War 2 are emblazoned on the Queens Colour.

The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment has been awarded 118 Battle Honours in all, of which those in bold below are emblazoned on the Colours. Thus ‘Dettingen’, fought in 1743, was only recognised as a Battle Honour of the 33rd in 1882.

It was not until 1881 that an attempt was made to remedy the situation. From then on the award of Battle Honours became more and more frequent, but the wars, campaigns and battles fought before 1800 continued to remain unrecognised. The first campaign award, in 1802, that of the ‘Sphinx’, was to the 31 regiments which had taken part in the campaign in Egypt in the preceding year. The award of Battle Honours did not become practice until 1800.

English banana warfare 1917