SIXTY-THIRD FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| 63rd Foot. 1758–1782 63rd West Suffolk. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1758—. | Green, 1758—. | Bunker’s Hill, 1775. Brooklyn, 1776. America, 1775–1781. Nimeguen, 1794. Flanders, 1794–1795. Grenada, 1796. St. Lucia, 1796. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. | Alkmaer, 1799. Martinique, 1809. Flushing, 1809. Guadaloupe, 1810. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. |
It was formerly the second Battalion of the 8th King’s, raised in 1756.
It is said= to have worn for some years the Badge of the Fleur-de-lis, but no authority can be found for its use.
It was nicknamed “The Bloodsuckers” at one time.