Black Watch Battle Honours
Combined Battle Honours of 42nd and 73rd Regiments:
1759 – 1902:
- Guadaloupe 1759
- Martinique 17621
- Havannah1
- North America 1763-64
- Mysore5
- Busaco³
- Salamanca4
- South Africa 1846-76, 1851-2-36
- Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt 1882 ’84
- Kirbekan, Nile 1884-5
- Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902
World War One [25 battalions]:
- Retreat from Mons,
- Marne 1914 ’18
- Aisne 1914
- La Bassée 1914
- Ypres 1914 ’17 ’18
- Langemarck 1914
- Gheluvelt
- Nonne Bosschen
- Givenchy 1914
- Neuve Chapelle
- Aubers
- Festubert 1915
- Loos
- Somme 1916 ’18
- Albert 1916
- Bazentin
- Delville Wood
- Pozières
- Flers-Courcelette
- Morval
- Thiepval
- Le Transloy
- Ancre Heights
- Ancre 1916
- Arras 1917 ’18
- Vimy 1917
- Scarpe 1917 ’18
- Arleux
- Pilckem
- Menin Road
- Polygon Wood
- Poelcappelle
- Passchendaele
- Cambrai 1917 ’18
- St Quentin
- Bapaume 1918
- Rosières
- Lys
- Estaires
- Messines 1918
- Hazebrouck
- Kemmel
- Béthune
- Scherpenberg
- Soissonnais-Ourcq
- Tardenois
- Drocourt-Quéant
- Hindenburg Line
- Épéhy
- St Quentin Canal
- Beaurevoir
- Courtrai
- Selle
- Sambre
- France and Flanders 1914-18
- Doiran 1917
- Macedonia 1915-18
- Egypt 1916
- Gaza
- Jerusalem
- Tell’Asur
- Megiddo
- Sharon
- Damascus
- Palestine 1917-18
- Tigris 1916
- Kut al Amara 1917
- Baghdad
- Mesopotamia 1915-17
The Second World War:
- Defence of Arras,
- Ypres-Comines Canal
- Dunkirk 1940
- Somme 1940
- St. Valery-en-Caux
- Saar
- Breville
- Odon
- Fontenay le Pesnil
- Defence of Rauray
- Caen
- Falaise
- Falaise Road
- La Vie Crossing
- Le Havre
- Lower Maas
- Venlo Pocket
- Ourthe
- Rhineland
- Reichswald
- Goch
- Rhine
- North-West Europe 1940 ’44-45
- Barkasan
- British Somaliland 1940
- Tobruk 1941
- Tobruk Sortie
- El Alamein
- Advance on Tripoli
- Medenine
- Zemlet el Lebene
- Mareth, Akarit
- Wadi Akarit East
- Djebel Roumana
- Medjez Plain
- Si Mediene
- Tunis
- North Africa 1941-43
- Landing in Sicily
- Vizzini
- Sferro
- Gerbini
- Adrano
- Sferro Hills
- Sicily 1943
- Cassino II
- Liri Valley
- Advance to Florence
- Monte Scalari
- Casa Fortis
- Rimini Line
- Casa Fabbri Ridge
- Savio Bridgehead
- Italy 1944-45
- Athens
- Greece 1944-45
- Crete
- Heraklion
- Middle East 1941
- Chindits 1944
- Burma 1944
1945 Onwards:
- The Hook 1952
- Korea 1952-53
- Al Basrah, Iraq 2003
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