page_title: Royal Guernsey Militia
section_title: Battle honours
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Guernsey Militia / Honours / Battle honours
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to Guernseymen who died in WW1. Named loafers wall after the elderly men who would sit or lean on the wall.
context_page_description: The Royal Guernsey Militia has a history dating back 800 years. Always loyal to the British Crown, the men were unpaid volunteers whose wish was to defend the Island of Guernsey from foreign invaders.
  Militias were also created in the Bailiwick islands of Alderney and Sark as well as in Jersey.
  The commander of all military forces in Guernsey has always been appointed by the Crown, originally Wardens or Keepers, sometimes using the title Captain or Governor. Later becoming known as the Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
context_section_description: In February 1925, in accordance with General Order No 5034 The London Gazette published a complete list of Battle Honours awarded for the Great War.
  In General Orders, 1928, "Honours awarded to Militia Corps for services previous to the Great War shall pass to the reconstituted Militia Regiment and shall be emblazoned on all Regimental Standards, Guidons or Colours"
   
  Following the disbandment of the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry in 1919, the 1st Battalion Royal Guernsey Militia were granted the following Battle Honours:
  Ypres 1917
  Passchendaele
  Cambrai 1917
  Lys
  Estaires
  Hazebrouck
  France and Flanders 1917–1918.
caption: Loafers wall, in remembrance of Guernseymen who died in WW1
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