SIXTY-EIGHTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| 68th Foot. 1758–1782. 68th Durham. 1782–1812. 68th Durham Light Infantry. 1812—— | Scarlet, 1758—. | Green, 1758—. | Cherbourg, 1758. St. Lucia, 1803. Flushing, 1809. Salamanca, 1812. Vittoria, 1813. Pyrenees, 1813. Nivelle, 1813. | Orthes, 1814. Peninsula, 1811–1814. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. New Zealand, 1864–1866. |
It was formerly the second Battalion of the 23rd Royal Welsh Fuziliers, raised in 1756.
It was nicknamed “The Faithful Durhams.”