TWENTY-NINTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Thomas Farington’s Regiment of Foot. 1702–1712 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1712–1751 29th Foot. 1751–1782 29th Worcestershire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1702—. | Yellow, 1702—. | Neer-Hespen, 1705. Germany, 1704–1706. Almanza, 1707. Spain, 1706–1708. America, 1776–1781. Grenada, 1796. Helder, 1799. Bergen, 1799. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Roleia, 1808. | Vimiera, 1808. Douro, 1809. Talavera, 1809. Albuera, 1811. Peninsula, 1808–1812. Ferozeshah, 1845. Sobraon, 1846. Punjaub, 1848–1849. Chillianwallah, 1849. Goojerat, 1849. |
The Regiment is said= to have been raised by the City of London.
It captured a Standard from the French at Talavera, 1809.
It is allowed to bear a star on the men’s pouches for service in the field.