With the approval of the Right Honourable the Governor-General of India in Council, the Honourable the Governor in Council is pleased to direct, that the honorary distinctions specified below be borne upon the Colours and appointments of the 1st Bombay European Regiment, "Fusiliers".
*The Royal Tiger, superscribed ''Plassey'' and ''Buxar'', for services in the Presidency of Bengal, during 1757, 1764-5, especially at the battles of Plassey and Buxar the sieges of Chandernagore, Chunar, and Allahabad.
*The Elephant superscribed ''Carnatic'' and ''Mysore'', for services on the Coromandel Coast, in the Carnatic and Mysore, during the years 1747-8-9; 1754-5, 1760, 1764 and 1788, especially as having shared in the defence of Cuddalore (Fort St David), 16th June 1748, the operations under Admiral Boscawen, and the siege of Davi Cottah, the latter part of this and the beginning of the following year; the action with the French Army under Monsieur Maisin, between the Sugar Loaf and French Rocks on the 16th August 1754, the sieges of Pondicherry and Mihie 1760-1; the sieges of Madura and Palamcottah in 1764; the storming of the Bednore Ghauts and Capture of Bednore in 1783, and the expedition in the first campaign against Seringapatam in 1790-1-2.
* ''Guzerat'' for service at several different periods; especially throughout the whole of General Goddard's Campaign, with the Bengal Brigade in 1780, and the storming of Ahmedabad, 15th January 1780.
By order of the Hon'ble the Governor in Council.
(Sd.) P. M. Melvill, Lt Colonel,
Secretary to Government.〔Mainwaring (1911), p.376〕