THIRTIETH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Thomas Sanderson’s Regiment of Marines. 1702–1704 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1704–1714 Colonel Charles Willis’s Regiment of Foot. 1714–1716 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1716–1751 30th Foot. 1751–1782 30th Cambrid=geshire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1702—. | Yellow, since 1742. | Gibraltar, 1704–1705. Barcelona, 1705. Spain, 1704–1706. Cherbourg, 1758. Belle-Isle, 1761. Toulon, 1794. Corsica, 1794. Malta, 1800. Mandora, 1801. Alexandria, 1801. Marabout, 1801. | Egypt, 1801. Badajos, 1812. Salamanca, 1812. Peninsula, 1810–1813. Quatre-Bras, 1815. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1814–1815. Asseerghur, 1819. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was raised as one of six Regiments of Marines.
It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
It was nicknamed “The Triple Xs” also “The Three Tens.”