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Battle Honours and Awards



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Battle Honours

Cape of Good Hope 1806, Rolica, Vimeira, Corunna, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse, Peninsula, South Africa 1846-7, 1851-2-3, Alma, Balaklava, Sevastopol, Lucknow, South Africa 1879, Modder River, Paardeberg, South Africa 1899-1902.

THE GREAT WAR - Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, 18, Aisne 1914, La Bassee 1914, Messines 1914, 18, Armentieres 1914, Ypres 1915, 17, 18, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916, 18, Albert 1916, 18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozieres, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917,18, Scarpe 1917, 18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917,18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosieres, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Bethune, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Epehy, Canal du Nord, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Italy 1917-18, Struma, Doiran 1917,18, Macedonia 1915-18, Gallipoli 1915-16, Rumani, Egypt 1916, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jaffa, Palestine 1917-18.

THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Somme 1940, Odon, Tourmauville Bridge, Caen, Esquay, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Falaise, Dives Crossing, Aart, Lower Maas, Meijel, Venlo Pocket, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Rhine, Uelzen, Artlenberg, North-West Europe 1940, 44-45, Abyssinia 1941, Sidi Barrani, El Alamein, Medenine, Akarit, Diebel Azzag 1942, Kef Ouiba Pass, Mine de Sedjenane, Medjez Plain, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1940-43, Landing in Sicily, Gerbini, Adrano, Centuripe, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Sangro, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Aquino, Monte Casalino, Monte Spaduro, Monte Grande, Senio, Santerno Crossing, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Crete, Heraklion, Middle East 1941, North Malaya, Grik Road, Central Malaya, Ipoh, Slim River, Singapore Island, Malaya 1941-42.

Pakchon, Korea 1950-51.

Victoria Cross Winners
Capt W.G.Drummond-Stewart     16 Nov 1857     Lucknow
C/Sgt J. Munro     16 Nov 1857     Lucknow
Sgt J. Paton     16 Nov 1857     Lucknow
L/Cpl J. Dunley     16 Nov 1857     Lucknow
Pte P. Grant     16 Nov 1857     Lucknow
Pte D. MacKay     16 Nov 1857     Lucknow
Lieut & Adjt. W. McBean     11 Mar 1858     Lucknow
Capt J.A. Liddell     31 Jul 1915     Belgium
Lieut J.R.N. Graham     22 Apr 1917     Mesopotamia
2nd Lieut A. Henderson MC     23 Apr1917     France
2nd Lieut J.C. Buchan     21 Mar 1918     France
Lieut D.L. MacIntyre     24-27 Aug 1918     France
Lieut W.D. Bissett     25 Oct 1918     France
Lieut Col L.M. Campbell, DSO, TD     6 Apr1943     Wadi Akarit
Major J.T. McKellar Anderson, DSO, TD     23 Apr 1943     Longstop
Major K. Muir     23 Sep 1950     Korea

Eight of these medals, and other galantry medals, are on display the the Colours Room at the Museum

 

 

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The Victoria Cross, founded by Queen Victoria in 1856, is Britain’s highest decoration awarded for bravery in the face of the enemy. Cast in the form of a Maltese cross, it is made from the metal of cannons captured at Sevastopol during the Crimean War.