THIRTY-FIRST FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel George Villiers’s Regiment of Marines. 1702–1703
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1703–1714
Colonel Sir Harry Goring’s Regiment of Foot. 1714–1751
31st Foot. 1751–1782
31st Huntingdonshire. 1782——		Scarlet, 1702—.Buff, 1702—.Gibraltar, 1704–1705.
Barcelona, 1705.
Spain, 1704–1706.
Minorca, 1708.
Dettingen, 1743.
Fontenoy, 1745.
Flanders, 1742–1745.
America, 1776–1781.
Martinique, 1794.
St. Lucia, 1794.
Guadaloupe, 1794.		St. Lucia, 1796.
Egmont-op-Zee, 1799.
Alkmaer, 1799.
Rosetta, 1807.
Egypt, 1807.
Talavera, 1809.
Albuera, 1811.
Vittoria, 1813.
Pyrenees, 1813.
Nivelle, 1813.
Nive, 1813.		Orthes, 1814.
Peninsula, 1809–1814.
Cabool, 1842.
Moodkee, 1845.
Ferozeshah, 1845.
Aliwal, 1846.
Sobraon, 1846.
Sevastopol, 1855.
Taku Forts, 1860.

The Regiment was raised as one of six Regiments of Marines.

It captured a Colour from the Seikhs at Ferozeshah, one at Aliwal, and two at Sobraon.

It was nicknamed “The Young Buffs” from the King mistaking it for the 3rd Buffs at the Battle of Dettingen 1743.