Nicknames: The "Two Twos"; also in 1795 the "Red Knights," from being served out with all red clothing; also known as the "Lightning Conductors."
(Depot, Wrexham.)
(Record Office, Shrewsbury.)
The Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt."
"Namur, 1695," "Blenheim," "Ramillies," "Oudenarde," "Malplaquet," "Dettingen," "Minden," "Corunna," "Martinique, 1809," "Albuhera," "Badajoz," "Salamanca," "Vittoria," "Pyrenees," "Nivelle," "Orthes," "Toulouse," "Peninsula," "Waterloo," "Alma," "Inkerman," "Sevastopol," "Lucknow," "Ashantee, 1873-4," "Burma, 1885-87," "Relief of Ladysmith," "South Africa, 1899-1902," "Pekin, 1900."
Motto: Nec aspera terrent (Difficulties do not dismay us).
Uniform, Scarlet.
Facings, Blue.