AWARDS
 
Post Independence

Battle and Theatre Honours
 
The battle honours inherited by the regiment from the 1st Battalion 23rd Sikh Pioneers are:
 
Taku FortsKabul 1879Sharon
Pekin 1860Kandahar 1880Nablus
AbyssiniaChitralAden
Peiwar KotalEgypt 1916-17Palestine 1917-18
CharasiaGaza 
Afghanistan 1878-79Megiddo 
 
The battle honours earned by 1 SIKH LI during the Second World War were:
 
Defence of Meiktila  
Rangoon Road  
Pyabwe  
Sittang 1945  
Burma 1942-45  

After independence, the battle and theatre honours earned by the regiment are:
 
1965Punjab1 SIKH LITheatre Honour
 OP Hill 5 SIKH LIBattle Honour
 Jammu and Kashmir5 SIKH LITheatre Honour
 Kalidhar6 SIKH LIBattle Honour
 Jammu and Kashmir6 SIKH LITheatre Honour
1971East Pakistan2 SIKH LITheatre Honour
 East Pakistan4 SIKH LITheatre Honour
 Fatehpur8 SIKH LIBattle Honour
 Punjab8 SIKH LITheatre Honour
 Parbat Ali10 SIKH LIBattle Honour
 Sind 197110 SIKH LITheatre Honour


Chief of Army Staff Citations
 
The battalions that have earned citations from the Chief Of Army Staff for their excellent conduct during counter insurgency operations are:
19958 SIKH LIKashmir
 2 RRKashmir
199613 SIKH LIManipur
19986 SIKH LIMendhar
200115 SIKH LIAssam
20022 RRKashmir
200416 SIKH LIAssam
 
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