Second Boer War World War I: * Gravenstafel Ridge * St Julien * Frezenberg Ridge * Bellewarde Ridge * Flers–Courcelette * Morval * Le Transloy * Butte de Warlencourt * First Scarpe * Second Scarpe * Second Passchendaele * First Somme (1918) * Rosières * Estaires * Third Aisne * Beaurevoir * Cambrai * Selle * Sambre * Macedonia * Mesopotamia World War II: * Arras * Dunkirk * Gazala * Mersa Matruh * Alamein * Sicily landings * Primosole Bridge * Normandy landings * Villers-Bocage * Mont Pincon * Operation Market Garden * Operation Plunder
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Col Sir Charles Palmer
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