1770s, and it was not listed as an authorised device in the royal warrants of 1747, 1751 or 1768. It subsequently became a central part of the badge of the Norfolk Regiment. Traditions The Royal Norfolk Regiment held an anniversary on 25 April for the Battle of Almansa, which they inherited along with the regimental nickname of the "Holy Boys" from the 9th Regiment of Foot. They gained the "Holy Boys" nickname during the Peninsular War from the misidentification by a Spanish soldier of Britannia on their cap badge as the Virgin Mary. Battle honours The following were the regiment's battle honours: Earlier years Belleisle, Havannah, Martinque 1794, Roliça, Vimiera, Corunna, Busaco, Salamanca Vitoria, San Sebastián , Nive, Peninsula, Cabool 1842, Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Sobraon, Sevastopol, Kabul 1879, Afghanistan 1879–80, Paardeberg, South Africa (1900–02) First World War: (The regiment were permitted to display ten representative honours on the colours: these are indicated in bold text.) Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Oppy, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Lys, Bailleul, Kemmel, Scherpenberg, Amiens, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914–18, Italy 1917–18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1915–17,Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917–18, Shaiba, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Mesopotamia 1914–18 Second World War: St Omer-La Bassée, North-West Europe 1940, Normandy Landing, Brieux Bridgehead, Venray, Rhineland, North-West Europe 1944–45, Singapore Island, Kohima, Aradura (1944–1945), Burma 1944–45 Later wars: Korea 1951–52 Victoria Cross In total, six members of the Norfolk or Royal Norfolk Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross: Acting Lieutenant-Colonel John Sherwood-Kelly – at Battle of Cambrai while commanding Inniskilling Fusiliers Company Sergeant Major George Gristock – in Belgium during the Battle of France, subsequently dying of wounds sustained Captain John Niel Randle – in Far East, 1944 Corporal Sidney Bates – 1st Bn, France 1944 Captain David Jamieson – France at the Brieux bridgehead, 1944 Lieutenant George Arthur Knowland – attached No. 1 Commando, Burma 1945 Colonels of the Regiment