A battle honour is an award of a right by a government or sovereign to an armed forces device to decorate the name of a battle or operation on its flags (colours), attires or various other devices where embellishment is possible. In European armed forces practice, military systems may be acknowledged for their success in certain wars or procedures of a military project. In Great Britain and those countries of the Commonwealth which share an usual armed forces heritage with the British, battle honours are granted to chosen armed forces devices as main acknowledgement for their achievements in details wars or procedures of a military campaign. These honours usually take the type of an area as well as a date (e.g. Cambrai 1917). Theatre honours, a type of acknowledgment in the British custom carefully allied to battle honours, were presented to honour systems which provided admirable service in a campaign but were not component of certain battles for which different battle honours were aw...