Battle Honours of the Cameron Highlanders in the 1939-1945 War

 

(Honours in red are emblazoned on the Sovereign's Colours)

 

1st Battalion

Defense of Escaut, St. Omer - La Bassee, North-West Europe 1940, Kohima, Relief of Kohima, Naga Village, Aradura, Shwebo, Mandalay, Ava, Irrawaddy, Mt Poppa, Burma 1944-45

 

2nd Battalion

Agordat, Keren, Abyssinia 1941, Sidi Barrani, Tobruk 1941, 42, Gubi II, Carmusa, Gazala, Adrano, Cassino I, Poggio del Grub, Gothic Line, Tavoleto, Coriano, Pian di Castello, Monte Reggiano, Rimini Line, San Marino, Italy 1944

 

4th Battalion

Somme 1940, St. Valery-en-Caux, North-West Europe 1940

 

5th Battalion

 El Alamein, Mareth, Wadi Zigzaou, Akarit, Djebel Roumana, North Africa 1940-43, Francofonte, Sferro Hills, Sicily 1943, Falaise, Falaise Road, La Vie Crossing, Le Havre, Lower Maas, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Reichswald, Goch, Rhine, North-West Europe 1944-45,

 

 

 

For more information on Scottish Battle Honours in the World Wars, see The Dispatch of the Scottish Military Historical Society

 

 

 

 

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