Fallen Officers of the Great War
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Roll of Honour of Officers of the Dorsetshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War |
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Regimental Battle Honours of the Great War |
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The sheer scale of the Great War led to a previously unheard of number of
honours being awarded and it was simply impractical to emblazon every one of
them on the Regimental Colour. In September 1922 it was ordered that
Regiments should select up to 10 Honours to be emblazoned on their Regimental
Colours along with previous awards, up to a total of 24. This led to
a storm of protest, since many Regiments would have had to remove previous
Honours. The order was therefore amended the following
December, to allow each Infantry Regiment to select up to 10 Honours to be
emblazoned on its King's/Queen's Colour, Honours from other conflicts continuing to be
displayed on the Regimental Colour.
Honours in bold below are emblazoned on
the Regimental
Colours. Regimental Battle Honours earned during the Great War Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1915 '17, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Bellewaarde, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917, Scarpe 1917, Messines 1917, Langemarck 1917, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, St. Quentin, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917–18, Basra, Shaiba, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Baghdad, Khan Baghdadi, Mesopotamia 1914–18 |
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Regimental Roll of Honour |
