The CTH has 20 battle honours on its Regimental Colour, more than almost any other South African regiment, some of them much older; They include the very rare "Alamein Box"

The CTH is still claiming 15 battle honours awarded for service in France and Flanders to the 4th SA Infantry (SA Scottish), a service battalion formed by itself and the Transvaal Scottish. The SA Scottish, like various other such units, was formed by the SA government because a clause in the Defence Act prohibited existing units from serving so far away from its borders.

All the other Dominsons except South Africa - Canada, Australia and New Zealand – had a similar problem and solved it the same way ... and then made the service units’ battle honours transferable to their parent regiments.

The 15 "missing" battle honours include some of the most famous in South Africa’s military annals: