Egypt Campaign 1801, and the Peninsular War (39th served in the Peninsular and the 54th in the 1801 Egypt campaign)

Military General Service Medal.  1793 - 1814

A single "Maida" clasp medal was awarded to Lt. Richard Church of the 39th for service with the 13th Regiment of Foot.

* three of these medals also had clasps awarded for service with other regiments: QM Sjt. Robert Farmery had Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, Badajos, and Salamanca for service with the 5th Regiment; Pte. John Haney had Talavera for service with the 83rd Regiment; and Pte. Patrick Thomson had Corunna for service with the 52nd regiment.

Battle Honours : Marabout,  Albuhera, Vittoria, Pyrenees Nivelle Nive, Orthes, Peninsula

Battle of Waterloo 1815 54th Regiment   

Waterloo Medal 1815

Not deployed directly in the Waterloo battle:  positioned at Hal to prevent any potential surprise attack in the direction of Brussels & the right flank. [4th Division (Collville) 6th British Brigade (Johnstone) with 2/35th, 2/59th and the 1/91st ]

First Anglo-Burmese War 1824-1826  54th Regiment

Army of India Medal 1799 - 1826

Battle Honour: Ava

Gawalior Campaign 1843 39th Regiment

Gawalior Campaign Maharajpoor Star 1843

Battle Honour:  Maharajpore

Crimean War  1854 - 1856  39th Regiment

Crimea Medal 1854 -56

An Assistant Surgeon on the roll received Alma and Inkermann clasps.

Battle Casualties;

* recorded as "mortally wounded"  

Men who served in the Crimea also eligible for:

Turkish Crimea Medal 1855

Battle Honour: Sevastopol.

Indian Mutiny 1857-59   54th Regiment

India Mutiny Medal. 1857 -59

North West Frontier Operations 1897-98  1st Battalion

India Medal 1895

VCs: 1;  Vickery

Battle Honour: Tirah

South African War 1899 - 1902 or "Boer War"  2nd Battalion ( Dec 1899-end of the war) with detachments serving as Mounted Infantry (MI)

Queen's South Africa Medal 1899-1902, with or without the King's South Africa Medal 1901 - 1902

Common clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; also:

The general rule of thumb is that the MI have some combination of the first five clasps listed above and the foot sloggers some combination of the last three. (perhaps with state bars) - MI being a considerable minority.

Casualties:

Battle Honours: Relief of Ladysmith, South Africa 1899-1902

The Great War 1914 - 1918  ( 11 battalions; 6 served overseas:- )

Generally awarded the British War Medal & Victory Medal, men overseas prior to 1/1/1916 also a 1914 or 1914-15 Star as approprite.

* The second battalion was in India when war broke out, being dispatched from there to the Persian Gulf, arriving 6/11/1914. The Battalion was captured at Kut al Amara 29/4/16, although a temporary composite battalion was reformed shortly afterwards from the recovered wounded and new drafts of the 2nd Dorsets and 2nd Norfolks (nicknamed the Norsets). The battalion was fully reconstituted on the 21th July 1916.
** To Suvla via Mudros and Imbros.

Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19
 36 officers and men of the Dorsetshire Regiment also qualified for this medal.

Battle Honours: Mons; Marne 1914; Ypres 1915, 1917; Somme 1916, 1918; Hindenburg Line; Sambre; Suvla; Gaza; Shaiba; Ctesiphon; Khan Baghdadi.  Le Cateau; Retreat from Mons; Aisne 1914; La Bassée 1914; Armentières 1914; Gravenstafel; St Julien; Bellewaarde; Albert 1916, 1918; Flers-Courcelette; Thiepval; Ancre 1916, 1918; Arras 1917; Scarpe 1917; Messines 1917; Langemarck 1917; Polygon Wood; Broodseinde; Poelcapelle; Passchendaele; St Quentin; Amiens; Bapaume 1918; Epéhy; Canal du Nord; St Quentin Canal; Beaurevoir; Cambrai 1918; Selle; France and Flanders 191418; Landing at Suvla; Scimitar Hill; Gallipoli 1915; Egypt 1916; El Mughar; Nebi Samwil; Jerusalem; Tell'Asur; Megiddo; Sharon; Palestine 1917-18; Basra; Kut al Amara 1915, 1917; Defence of Kut al Amara; Baghdad; Mesopotamia 1914-18.

Moplah Rebellion, Malabar  1921-1922  2nd Battalion

India General Service Medal 1908

Jewish / Arab unrest, Palestine 1936 - 39 2nd Battalion (1936)

General Service Medal 1918 -62

WW2 1939 - 1945  5 Battalions served overseas:

Notes.

Burma 30/3/44 -25/4/45

entered NW. Europe theatre 24/6/44. In the UK prior to this.

WW2 Stars common to the Battalion. (excluding 39-45 star )
 Key: A = Africa, P = Pacific, B =  Burma, I = Italy,  F&G = France and Germany

Most also entitled to the 1939-45 War Medal and many the Defence Medal

Battle Honours:  St Omer-La Bassée; Normandy Landing; Caen; Arnhem 1944; Aam; Geilenkirchen; landing in Sicily; Malta 1940-2; Kohima; Mandalay. Villers Bocage; Tilly sur Seulles; Mont Pinçon; St Pierre La Vielle; Goch; Rhine; Twente Canal; North-West Europe 1940, 1944-5; Agira; Regalbuto; Sicily 1943; Landing at Porto San Venere; Italy 1943; Mt Popa; Burma 1944-5.