The Manchester Regiment,
COMPRISING
1st Batt. (formerly) The 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot.
2nd Batt. ( " ) The 96th Regiment of Foot; with Militia Batts.
3rd & 4th Batts. The 6th Royal Lancashire Militia.
The Arms of the City
of Manchester.
The Sphinx.
TITLES.
1st Batt.
1744-48. The 63rd (American) Regiment of Foot: renumbered The 49th.
1757-58. The 8th King's (2nd Batt.) Regiment; regimented in
1758-82. The 63rd Regiment of Foot.
1782-81. The 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot.
2nd Batt.
1760-63. The 96th Regiment of Foot (raised for service in the Carnatic): disbanded.
1780-83. The 96th (British Musketeers) Regiment: disbanded.
1793-98. The 96th (The Queen's Royal Irish) Regiment; dispersed.
1803-16. The 96th Regiment of Foot (raised as 2nd Batt. 52nd Foot: renumbered The 95th, and as such disbanded in 1818).
1815-18. The 96th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot (raised in 1798 as The Queen's Germans: numbered The 97th in 1802: renumbered, in 1815, the 96th: disbanded in 1818—the Egyptian and Peninsular honours of this corps were assumed by the late 96th).
1824-81. The 96th Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Manchester Regiment.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours, the figures showing the Battalion concerned.
1759. Guadaloupe.
1775-81. America.
1775. Bunker's Hill.
1776. Long Island.
1776. Brooklyn.
1777. Brandywine.
1777. Germantown.
1781. Entaw Springs.
1794-95. Flanders.
1794. Nimeguen.
1794. Martinique.
1794. Guadaloupe.
1796. Grenada.
1796. St. Vincent.
1796. St. Lucia.
1799. Bergen.
*1799. Egmont-op-Zee (1).
1799. Alkmaer.
*1801. Egypt (2).
1801. Alexandria.
*1808-11. Peninsula (2).
*1809. Martinique (1).
1809. Flushing.
*1810. Guadaloupe (1).
1814. Bergen-op-Zoom.
1815. Guadaloupe.
*1845-47. New Zealand (2).
*1854. Alma (1).
*1854. Inkerman (1).
*1855. Sevastopol (1).
*1879-80. Afghanistan (1).
*1882. Egypt (1 & 2).
1900. South Africa.
Uniform.—Scarlet with White facings (before territorialisation the facings of the 1st and 2nd Batts. were Green and Yellow respectively).
Regimental and other Badges.—"The Sphinx" for Egypt (1801) by descent from the 96th Regiment of 1798-1818. Also (since 1881) The Arms of the City of Manchester.
Nickname.—"The Bloodsuckers" (of the 63rd).
Bibliography.—The History of the late 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment. By Major James Slack, late 63rd Regiment. [London: Army and Navy Co-operative Society. 1884.]