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==Battle honours== The Coldstream Guards have earned 117 battle honours:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/queen-presents-new-colours-to-coldstream-guards|title=Queen presents new Colours to Coldstream Guards|date=3 May 2012|publisher=Ministry of Defence|access-date=26 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/guards/f-2CG.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060208214920/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/guards/f-2CG.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 February 2006|title=Coldstream Guards|publisher=Regiments.org|access-date=10 August 2019}}</ref> * [[English Tangier|Tangier 1680]], [[Siege of Namur (1695)|Namur 1695]], [[Gibraltar 1704–05|Gibraltar 1704–1705]], [[Battle of Oudenarde|Oudenarde]], [[Battle of Malplaquet|Malplaquet]], [[Battle of Dettingen|Dettingen]], [[Battle of Lincelles|Lincelles]], [[French Campaign in Egypt and Syria|Egypt]], [[Battle of Talavera|Talavera]], [[Battle of Barrosa|Barrosa]], [[Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro|Fuentes d'Onor]], [[Battle of Salamanca|Salamanca]], [[Battle of the Nive|Nive]], [[Peninsular War|Peninsula]], [[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]], [[Battle of Alma|Alma]], [[Battle of Inkerman|Inkerman]], [[Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855)|Sevastopol]], [[Battle of Tel el-Kebir|Tel-el-Kebir]], [[Egypt 1882]], [[Battle of Suakin|Suakin 1885]], [[Battle of Modder River|Modder River]], [[Second Boer War|South Africa 1899–1902]] * The Great War (5 battalions): [[Battle of Mons|Mons]], [[Retreat from Mons]], [[Marne 1914]], [[Aisne 1914]], [[Ypres 1914]] '17, [[Battle of Langemarck (1914)|Langemarck 1914]], [[Battle of Gheluvelt|Gheluvelt]], Nonne Bosschen, [[Givenchy 1914]], [[Battle of Neuve Chapelle|Neuve Chapelle]], [[Battle of Aubers Ridge|Aubers]], [[Festubert 1915]], [[Battle of Loos|Loos]], [[Mount Sorrel]], [[Somme 1916]] [[Second Battle of the Somme (1918)|'18]], [[Battle of Flers-Courcelette|Flers-Courcelette]], [[Battle of Morval|Morval]], [[Battle of Pilckem Ridge|Pilckem]], [[Battle of the Menin Road Ridge|Menin Road]], [[Battle of Poelcappelle|Poelcappelle]], [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]], [[Cambrai 1917]] [[Battle of Cambrai (1918)|'18]], [[Battle of St. Quentin Canal|St. Quentin]], [[Bapaume 1918]], [[Arras 1918]], [[Battle of the Lys (1918)|Lys]], [[Battle of the Lys (1918)#Battle of Hazebrouck (12–15 April)|Hazebrouck]], [[Albert 1918]], [[Scarpe 1918]], [[Drocourt-Quéant Line|Drocourt-Quéant]], [[Hindenburg Line]], [[Battle of Havrincourt|Havrincourt]], [[Battle of the Canal du Nord|Canal du Nord]], [[Pursuit to the Selle|Selle]], [[Battle of the Sambre (1918)|Sambre]], [[Western Front (World War I)|France and Flanders 1914–1918]] * The Second World War: [[Operation David#Defence of the Dyle|Dyle]], [[Operation David#Defence of the Escaut|Defence of Escaut]], [[Battle of Dunkirk|Dunkirk 1940]], [[Operation Goodwood|Cagny]], [[Operation Bluecoat|Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry]], [[Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine|Heppen]], [[Battle of the Nijmegen salient|Nederrijn]], [[Battle of Overloon|Venraij]], [[Operation Pheasant|Meijel]], Roer, Rhineland, [[Operation Veritable|Reichswald]], Cleve, Goch, Moyland, Hochwald, Rhine, Lingen, Uelzen, [[North-West Europe 1940]] '44–45, [[Italian invasion of Egypt|Egyptian Frontier 1940]], [[Battle of Sidi Barrani|Sidi Barrani]], [[Operation Brevity|Halfaya 1941]], [[Operation Battleaxe|Tobruk 1941–42]], Msus, Knightsbridge, [[Defence of Alamein Line]], [[Battle of Medenine|Medenine]], Mareth, Longstop Hill 1942, Sbiba, Steamroller Farm, Tunis, Hammam Lif, [[North African Campaign|North Africa 1940–1943]], [[Allied invasion of Italy|Salerno]], Battipaglia, Capezzano, Volturno Crossing, Monte Camino, Calabritto, Garigliano Crossing, Monte Ornito, Monte Piccolo, Capture of Perugia, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Monte Domini, Catarelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, [[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italy 1943–1945]] * [[Gulf War|Gulf 1991]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Gulf battle honours|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/gulf-battle-honours-1511977.html|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=20 October 2003}}</ref>
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