TWELFTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel the Duke of Norfolk’s Regiment of Foot. 1685–1686
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1686–1751
12th Foot. 1751–1782
12th East Suffolk. 1782——		Scarlet, 1685—.White, 1685.
Yellow, in 1742.		Boyne, 1690.
Aughrim, 1691.
Flanders, 1694–1697.
Dettingen, 1743.
Fontenoy, 1745.
Flanders, 1742–1745.
Minden, 1759.
Denkern, 1761.
Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
Germany, 1758–1763.
Gibraltar, 1779–1783.
Martinique, 1794.		Guadaloupe, 1794.
Nimeguen, 1794.
Guildermalsen, 1795.
Flanders, 1794–1795.
Mallavelly, 1799.
Seringapatam, 1799.
India, 1798–1807.
Bourbon, 1810.
Mauritius, 1810.
Cape of Good Hope, 1851–1853.
New Zealand, 1863–1866.

The Regiment was raised in Norfolk and Suffolk.

It bears “The Castle and Key” (the arms of Gibraltar), with the motto “Montis Insignia Calpe,” for its share in the defence of Gibraltar.

It captured eight stand of Colours at the storming of Seringapatam.

It is not known when its facings were changed from White.