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The Regiment has won 88 battle honours, from those won in the War of the Spanish Succession to that awarded for the Gulf War. It should be noted that the practice of awarding battle honours only started in the late 18th Century and those awarded in retrospect were few.

Of those battle honours awarded for the First and Second World Wars, but a limited number can be displayed on the Standard. The following is a list of all the battle honours awarded, with those featured on the Standard in capitals.

War of the Spanish Succession (Marlborough's Wars) 1702-1713
"BLENHEIM" "RAMILLIES" "OUDENARDE" "MALPLAQUET"
 
War of the Austrian Succession 1742-1748
"DETTINGEN"
 
The Seven Years War 1756-1763
"WARBURG"
 
French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
"BEAUMONT" "WILLEMS" "TALAVERA" "ALBUHERA" "VITTORIA" "WATERLOO"
 
Crimean War 1854-1856
"BALAKLAVA" "SEVASTOPOL"
India
Magdala Expedition 1868
Second Afghan War
"DELHI 1857"
"ABYSSINIA
AFGHANISTAN 1879-80
South African War
"RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY" "PAARDEBERG" "SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902"
 
First World War 1914-1918 in France and Flanders
"Mons, "Le Cateau", "RETREAT FROM MONS", "MARNE 1914", "AISNE 1914", "MESSINES 1914", "Armentieres", "YPRES 1914-15", "Nonne Bosschen", "Gheluvelt", "Neuve Chapelle", "St. Julien", "Frezenberg", "Bellenwaarde", "Loos", "ARRAS 1917", "Scarpe 1917", "CAMBRAI 1917-18", St. Quentin", "Avre", "Lys", "Hazebrouck", "AMIENS", "SOMME 1918", "Albert 1918", "Bapaume 1918", "HINDENBURG LINE", "Canal du Nord", "St.Quentin Canal", "Beaurevoir", "Selle", "Sambre", "PURSUIT TO MONS", "France and Flanders 1914-18"
 
Second World War 1939-1945
Syria
"MERJAYUN" "Syria 1941"
Western Desert
"ALAM EL HALFA" "EL ALAMEIN" "El Agheila" "NOFILIA" "Advance on Tripoli""North Africa 1942-43"
Italy
"SALERNO" "Battipaglia" "Volturno Crossing" "Italy 1943"
Normandy to the Baltic
"Caen" "HILL 112" "FALAISE" "Venlo Pocket" "HOCHWALD" "ALLER" "Bremen" "North West Europe 1944-45"
Burma

"IMPHAL" "Tamu road" "NUNSHIGUM" "BISHENPUR" "KANGLATONGBI" "KENNEDY PEAK" "Shwebo" "SAGAING" "MANDALAY" "AVA" "IRRAWADDY" "Yenangyaung 1945" "Burma 1944-45"

 
The Gulf War
GULF 1991


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The full title of the Regiment is
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers & Greys),
with Carabiniers pronounced 'Carbiniers' (no 'a').

This stems from the 6th Dragoons, who were honoured in 1691 with the title 'Kings Carabiniers' . The word originates from carabin or light musket with which some regiments of Horse were equipped. This was soon corrupted to 'carbine' and hence 'Carbiniers'

The title has its equivalent in that of 'fusiliers' bestowed as an honour on certain infantry regiments.