Battle Honours

• Amboor

  • A Rock fort representing Amboor added to Colors by special resolution of the government.

  • The first battle honour ever awarded to a battalion of the Madras Army.

  • The battalion was briefly re-titled the Amboor Battalion.

• Carnatic

  • This honour is not mentioned in the regimental history but probably related to the Second Mysore War. It is possibly related to the siege of Tanjore in 1773.

• Mysore 1792, Assaye 1803, Ava 1852, Burma 1885-87
  

• First World War:

  • Gallipoli & Middle East: Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Suez Canal, Egypt 1915, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1916-18
    

 

• Afghanistan 1919

• Second World War:

  • Middle East: Iraq 1941, Deir ez-Zor, Syria 1941

  • Italy: Coriano, Santarcangelo, Senio Floodbank, Bologna, Sillaro Crossing, Gaiana Crossing, Italy 1943-45

  • Far East: Monywa 1942, Imphal, Tuitum, Tamu Road, Shenam Pass, Litan, Bishenpur, Tengnoupal, Mandalay, Myinmu Bridgehead, Kyaukse 1945, Meiktila, Capture of Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Irrawaddy River, Rangoon Road, Pegu 1945, Sittang 1945, Burma 1942-45