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70 relations: Battle honours of the British and Imperial Armies, Battle of Arras (1917), Battle of Aughrim, Battle of Blenheim, Battle of Cambrai (1917), Battle of Elandslaagte, Battle of Enniscorthy, Battle of Malplaquet, Battle of Messines (1914), Battle of Mons, Battle of Oudenarde, Battle of Ramillies, Battle of the Boyne, British Army, British cavalry during the First World War, British Expeditionary Force (World War I), Cavalry regiments of the British Army, Charles Ross (British Army officer, born 1667), Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Curragh incident, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Field marshal, First Battle of the Aisne, First Battle of the Marne, First Battle of Ypres, Frederic Brooks Dugdale, General officer, George Edwin Ellison, George William Burdett Clare, Great Retreat, Henry Jenner Scobell, Hindenburg Line, Hundred Days Offensive, India, Ireland, Irish Rebellion of 1798, James Charles Chatterton, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, John Mostyn (British Army officer), Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover, Lancer, Mahdist War, Major general, Nile Expedition, Nottinghamshire, Osman Digna, Owen Wynne (British Army officer), Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore, Second Battle of the Somme (1918), ..., Second Battle of Ypres, Second Boer War, Siege of Ladysmith, Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe, Suakin, The Queen's Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum, Thomas Cooke (British Army officer), Thoresby Hall, Victoria Cross, War of the Spanish Succession, Western Front (World War I), William III of England, William Massy, World War I, World War II, 16th The Queen's Lancers, 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, 17th Lancers, 2nd Cavalry Division (United Kingdom), 3rd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom). Expand index (20 more) »
Battle honours of the British and Imperial Armies
The following battle honours were awarded to units of the British Army and the armies of British India and the Dominions of the British Empire.
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Battle of Arras (1917)
The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during World War I. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front.
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Battle of Aughrim
The Battle of Aughrim (Cath Eachroma) was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland.
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Battle of Blenheim
The Battle of Blenheim (German:Zweite Schlacht bei Höchstädt; French Bataille de Höchstädt), fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Battle of Cambrai (1917)
The Battle of Cambrai (Battle of Cambrai, 1917, First Battle of Cambrai and Schlacht von Cambrai) was a British attack followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) since 1914, in the First World War.
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Battle of Elandslaagte
The Battle of Elandslaagte was a battle of the Second Boer War, and one of the few clear-cut tactical victories won by the British during the conflict.
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Battle of Enniscorthy
The Battle of Enniscorthy was a land battle fought during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, on 28 May 1798, when an overwhelming force of rebels assailed the town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford, which was defended only by a 300-strong garrison supported by loyalist civilians.
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Battle of Malplaquet
The Battle of Malplaquet was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession, fought on 11 September 1709, which opposed the Bourbons of France and Spain against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, the United Provinces, Great Britain and the Kingdom of Prussia.
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Battle of Messines (1914)
The Battle of Messines was fought in October 1914 between the armies of the German and British empires, as part of the Race to the Sea, between the river Douve and the Comines–Ypres canal.
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Battle of Mons
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War.
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Battle of Oudenarde
The Battle of Oudenarde (or Oudenaarde) was a battle in the War of the Spanish Succession fought on 11 July 1708 between the forces of Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire on the one side and those of France on the other.
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Battle of Ramillies
The Battle of Ramillies, fought on 23 May 1706, was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Battle of the Boyne
The Battle of the Boyne (Cath na Bóinne) was a battle in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II of England, and those of Dutch Prince William of Orange who, with his wife Mary II (his cousin and James's daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1688.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.
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British cavalry during the First World War
The British cavalry were the first British Army units to see action during the First World War.
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British Expeditionary Force (World War I)
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War.
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Cavalry regiments of the British Army
There are currently nine regular cavalry regiments of the British Army, of these, two serve as armoured regiments, three as armoured cavalry regiments, three as light cavalry and one as a mounted ceremonial regiment.
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Charles Ross (British Army officer, born 1667)
Charles Ross or Rosse (8 February 1667 – 5 August 1732) was a Scottish general and Member of Parliament.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.
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Curragh incident
The Curragh incident of 20 March 1914, also known as the Curragh mutiny, occurred in the Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland.
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Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was an English soldier and British Imperial Governor.
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Field marshal
Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is a very senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks.
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First Battle of the Aisne
The First Battle of the Aisne (1re Bataille de l'Aisne) was the Allied follow-up offensive against the right wing of the German First Army (led by Alexander von Kluck) and the Second Army (led by Karl von Bülow) as they retreated after the First Battle of the Marne earlier in September 1914.
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First Battle of the Marne
The Battle of the Marne (Première bataille de la Marne, also known as the Miracle of the Marne, Le Miracle de la Marne) was a World War I battle fought from It resulted in an Allied victory against the German armies in the west.
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First Battle of Ypres
The First Battle of Ypres (Première Bataille des Flandres Erste Flandernschlacht, was a battle of the First World War, fought on the Western Front around Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium, during October and November 1914.
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Frederic Brooks Dugdale
Lieutenant Frederic Brooks Dugdale VC (21 October 1877 – 13 November 1902) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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General officer
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the army, and in some nations' air forces or marines.
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George Edwin Ellison
George Edwin Ellison (1878 – 11 November 1918) was the last British soldier to be killed in action during the First World War.
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George William Burdett Clare
George William Burdett Clare VC (18 May 1889 – 29 November 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Great Retreat
The Great Retreat, also known as the Retreat from Mons, is the name given to the long withdrawal to the River Marne, in August and September 1914, by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the French Fifth Army, Allied forces on the Western Front in World War I, after their defeat by the Imperial German armies at the Battle of Charleroi (21 August) and the Battle of Mons (23 August).
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Henry Jenner Scobell
Major-General Sir Henry Jenner "Harry" Scobell, KCVO, CB (2 January 1859 – 1 February 1912) was a British military leader who served as the last officer in command of Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa.
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Hindenburg Line
The Hindenburg Line (Siegfriedstellung or Siegfried Position) was a German defensive position of World War I, built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front, from Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne.
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Hundred Days Offensive
The Hundred Days Offensive was the final period of the First World War, during which the Allies launched a series of offensives against the Central Powers on the Western Front from 8 August to 11 November 1918, beginning with the Battle of Amiens.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.
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Irish Rebellion of 1798
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirí Amach 1798), also known as the United Irishmen Rebellion (Éirí Amach na nÉireannach Aontaithe), was an uprising against British rule in Ireland lasting from May to September 1798.
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James Charles Chatterton
General Sir James Charles Chatterton, 3rd Baronet, (10th December 17945 January 1874) was a British Army officer and politician; he was the third of the Chatterton baronets of Castle Mahon.
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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs.
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John Mostyn (British Army officer)
General John Mostyn (c.1709 – 16 February 1779) was a British soldier, MP and colonial administrator.
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Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover
General Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover KB, PC (24 June 1724 – 2 December 1792), styled The Honourable Joseph Yorke until 1761 and The Honourable Sir Joseph Yorke between 1761 and 1788, was a British soldier, diplomat and Whig politician.
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Lancer
A lancer was a type of cavalryman who fought with a lance.
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Mahdist War
The Mahdist War (الثورة المهدية ath-Thawra al-Mahdī; 1881–99) was a British colonial war of the late 19th century which was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later the forces of Britain.
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Major general
Major general (abbreviated MG, Maj. Gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.
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Nile Expedition
The Nile Expedition, sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition (1884–85), was a British mission to relieve Major-General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan.
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Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (pronounced or; abbreviated Notts) is a county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west.
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Osman Digna
Osman Digna (عثمان دقنة)(c. 1840 – 1926) was a follower of Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi, in Sudan, who became his best known military commander during the Mahdist War.
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Owen Wynne (British Army officer)
Lieutenant-General Owen Wynne (1665–1737) was an Irish officer in the British Army, and a member of the Parliament of Ireland.
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Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth
Field Marshal Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, PC (1680 – 12 October 1758), styled The Honourable Richard Molesworth from 1716 to 1726, was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and nobleman.
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Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore
General Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore PC (Ire) (18 April 1726 – 6 August 1801) was an Irish British Army officer and politician.
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Second Battle of the Somme (1918)
The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of the River Somme.
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Second Battle of Ypres
During World War I, the Second Battle of Ypres was fought from for control of the strategic Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium after the First Battle of Ypres the previous autumn.
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Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.
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Siege of Ladysmith
The Siege of Ladysmith was a protracted engagement in the Second Boer War, taking place between 2 November 1899 and 28 February 1900 at Ladysmith, Natal.
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Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe
Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, 7th Baron Calthorpe, KCB (23 January 1831 – 16 November 1912) was a British soldier and politician.
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Suakin
Suakin or Sawakin (سواكن Sawákin) is a port city in north-eastern Sudan, on the west coast of the Red Sea, which has been leased to the Republic of Turkey for 99 years by bilateral agreement.
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The Queen's Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum
The Queen's Royal Lancers & Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum traces the history of three old and famous cavalry regiments, the Queen's Royal Lancers, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry and the South Nottinghamshire Hussars.
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Thomas Cooke (British Army officer)
General Thomas Arthur Cooke, CVO (1841–1912) was a British General whose career spanned the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Thoresby Hall
Thoresby Hall is a grade I listed 19th-century country house in Budby, Nottinghamshire, some 2 miles (4 km) north of Ollerton.
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Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.
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War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700.
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Western Front (World War I)
The Western Front was the main theatre of war during the First World War.
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William III of England
William III (Willem; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672 and King of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.
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William Massy
Lieutenant-General William Godfrey Dunham Massy, CB (24 November 1838 – 20 September 1906) was a senior officer in the British Army.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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16th The Queen's Lancers
The 16th The Queen's Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1759.
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16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers
The 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.
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17th Lancers
The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1759 and notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
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2nd Cavalry Division (United Kingdom)
The 2nd Cavalry Division was a division of the regular British Army that saw service in World War I. It also known as Gough's Command, after its commanding general and was part of the British Expeditionary Force which served in France in from 1914–1918.
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3rd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 3rd Cavalry Brigade was a cavalry brigade of the British Army.
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5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, 5th (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons, 5th Lancers, 5th Lancers (Royal Irish), 5th Royal Irish Dragoons, Royal Irish Lancers, Wynne's Dragoons, Wynnes Dragoons.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Royal_Irish_Lancers
