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'Here shall flourish for ever the glorious thistle of Scotland

among the roses of France'.

By the time of the Armistice, 8000 members of the Black Watch had lost their lives and the Regiment had won the following battle honours:

Retreat from Mons; Marne 1914; 1918; Aisne 1914; La Bassée 1914; Ypres 1914, 1917, 1918; Langemarck 1914; Gheluvelt; Nonne Bosschen; Givenchy 1914; Neuve Chapelle; Aubers; Festubert 1915; Loos; Somme 1916,1918; Albert 1916; Bazentin; Delville Wood; Pozières; Flers-Courcelette; Morval; Thiepval; Ancre Heights; Ancre 1916; Arras 1917; 1918; Vimy 1917; Scarpe 1917,1918; Arleux; Pilckem; Menin Road; Polygon Wood; Poelcappelle; Passchendaele; Cambrai 1917, 1918; St Quentin; Bapaume 1918; Rosières; Lys; Estaires; Messines 1918; Hazebrouck; Kemmel; Béthune; Scherpenberg; Soissonnais-Ourcq; Tardenois; Drocourt-Quéant; Hindenberg Line; Épéhy; St Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir; Courtrai; Selle; Sambre; France and Flanders 1914-18; Doiran 1917; Macedonia 1915-18; Egypt 1916; Gaza; Jerusalem; Tell'Asur; Megiddo; Sharon; Damascus; Palestine 1917—18; Tigris 1916; Kut al Amara 1917; Baghdad; Mesopotamia 1915—17.

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