OBLI Battle Honours

Battle Honours of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Battle honours are awarded as official acknowledgement of a regiment's achievements in specific wars or operations of a military campaign.

The battle honours below were awarded to the 43rd, the 52nd, then the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry up until their amalgamation in 1958 into the Green Jackets Brigade.

Regiments inherit battle honours, so these ones are still carried by The Rifles, the regiment into which the Royal Green Jackets was in turn amalgamated.

The honours are shown chronologically.

Quebec 1759
Martinique 1762
Havannah
Mysore
Hindoostan
Martinique 1794

Peninsula:

Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse,

Waterloo

South Africa 1851-2-3

Delhi 1857

New Zealand

Relief of Kimberley

Paardeberg

South Africa 1900-02.

Second Boer War

First World War:

          Western Front: Mons,Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 '17, Langemarck 1914 '17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Hooge 1915, Loos, Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Poziéres, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Bapaume 1917 '18, Arras 1917, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 and 1918, St Quentin, Rosiéres, Avre, Lys, Hazebrouck, Béthune|, Hindenburg Line, Havrincort, Canal du Nord, Selle, Valenciennes, France and Flanders 1914-18

          Middle East: Kut-al-Amara, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut-al-Amara, Tigris 1916, Khan Baghdadi, Mesopotamia 1914-18

          Other: Doiran 1917 '18, Macedonia 1915-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Archangel 1919

Second World War:

          North-West Europe: Defence of Escaut, Cassel, Ypres-Comines-Canal, Normandy Landing, Pegasus Bridge, Caen, Esquay, Lower Maas, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Rhine, Ibbenbüren, North-West Europe 1940 '44-45

          North Africa: Enfidaville, North Africa 1943