FORTY-THIRD FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel Thomas Fowke’s Regiment of Foot. 1741
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1741–1751
43rd Foot. 1751–1782
43rd Monmouthshire. 1782–1803
43rd Monmouthshire Light Infantry. 1803——		Scarlet, 1741—.White, 1741—Quebec, 1759.
Sillery, 1760.
Canada, 1759–1760.
Martinique, 1762.
Havannah, 1762.
Lexington, 1775.
Bunker’s Hill, 1775.
Brooklyn, 1776.
America, 1775–1782.
Martinique, 1794.
St. Lucia, 1794.		Guadeloupe, 1794.
Copenhagen, 1807.
Vimiera, 1808.
Corunna, 1809.
Busaco, 1810.
Sabugal, 1811.
Fuentes d’Onor, 1811.
Cuid=ad Rodrigo, 1812.
Badajos, 1812.
Salamanca, 1812.
Vittoria, 1813.		Nivelle, 1813.
Nive, 1813.
Toulouse, 1814.
Peninsula, 1808–1814.
New Orleans, 1815.
Cape of Good Hope, 1850–1853.
Indian Mutiny, 1858.
New Zealand, 1864–1866.

The Regiment was raised chiefly in Bedfordshire.

It is nicknamed “The Light Bobs.”