The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment),
COMPRISING
1st Batt. (formerly) The 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot.
2nd Batt. ( " ) The 99th (Duke of Edinburgh's) Regiment of Foot; with Militia Batt.
3rd Batt. The Royal Wiltshire Militia.
The Duke of Edinburgh's Coronet and Cypher.
TITLES.
1st Batt.
1743-48. The 62nd Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1755-57. The 62nd (Royal American) Regiment of Foot: renumbered The 60th.
1756-57. The 62nd Regiment of Foot: renumbered The 77th.
1756-58. The 4th King's Own (2nd Batt.): separately regimented as The 62nd Foot.
1758-82. The 62nd Regiment of Foot.
1782-1881. The 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot.
2nd Batt.
1760-63. The 99th Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1780-83. The 99th (Jamaica) Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1794-98. The 99th Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1804-11. The 99th Regiment of Foot: renumbered The 98th (or Prince of Wales' Tipperary) Regiment of Foot: disbanded in 1818.
1805-15. The 100th Regiment of Foot: renumbered in
1815-18. The 99th (H.R.H. The Prince Regent's County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1824-74. The 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot.
1874-81. The 99th (The Duke of Edinburgh's) Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment).
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours, the figures showing the Battalion concerned.
1743. Dettingen.
1745. Fontenoy.
1745. Jacobite rising.
1746. Culloden.
1758. Carrickfergus.
1776-80. America.
1777. Stillwater.
1793-8. San Domingo.
1795. Demerara.
1795. Essequebo.
1795. Berbice.
1809. Scylla.
1813. Niagara.
*1813-14. Peninsula (1).
1813. Bidassoa.
*1813. Nive (1).
1814. Bayonne.
1814-15. America.
*1845-47. New Zealand (2).
*1845. Ferozeshah (1).
*1846. Sobraon (1).
*1855. Sevastopol (1).
1860. China.
*1860. Pekin (2).
1878-80. South Africa (2).
1900. South Africa.
Uniform.—Scarlet with Buff facings (1st Batt. from 1758-1881), and Scarlet with Yellow facings (2nd Batt. from 1824-1881). Now Scarlet with White facings for both batts.
Regimental and other Badges.—"The Duke of Edinburgh's Coronet and Cypher" (this in combination with a Maltese Cross, adopted by the 62nd in 1806, and the Regulation Star and Wreath).
Nickname.—"The Springers" (tradition says that the 62nd was so called from its employment as a light battalion during the American War in 1777).
Notes.—For its defence, in 1760, against the French, of the Castle of Carrickfergus it at one time wore a "splash" on the buttons. After the ammunition was expended bricks and stones were thrown, and, so the story runs, their buttons were used as bullets. The 99th were raised in Lanarkshire—hence its former county title.
Bibliography.—"The Springers." The 62nd Regiment. By H. M. C. [Dublin: Carson. 1891.]