A medal was struck to commemorate this victory, which is inscribed on the colours and appointments of the following regiments:
1st King's Dragoon Guards.
3rd Dragoon Guards.
5th Dragoon Guards.
6th Carabiniers.
7th Dragoon Guards.
5th R.I. Lancers.
Royal Scots Greys.
Grenadier Guards.
Royal Scots.
Buffs.
Liverpool Regiment.
Lincolns.
East Yorkshire.
Bedfords.
Royal Irish.
Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
South Wales Borderers.
Cameronians.
Gloucesters.
Worcester.
Hampshire.
Though inscribed on our colours, there were but few British troops actually under fire at the Battle of Ramillies. On the cavalry fell the task of converting a victory into a rout, and to this end the six regiments of British dragoons enumerated above were worthily employed, their trophies being 56 guns, 80 stand of colours, and 2,000 prisoners. No regimental lists of casualties have been preserved, but it would appear that the Cameronians lost two officers killed, and that the cavalry in the pursuit lost 384 of all ranks killed and wounded.
Ramillies was not the only success that attended our arms in Flanders during the year 1706, and it is difficult to understand why it alone should have been selected for recognition. The whole of Flanders in those days was studded with fortresses, under cover of which the French lay secure. To capture these was a necessity, and one by one they fell into our hands. In the months of August, Menin, after a siege of six weeks, was carried by assault, our loss being 32 officers and 551 men killed, 80 officers and 1,944 men wounded; the regiments which took part in the siege and assault being the Scots Greys, the 3rd and 5th Dragoon Guards, the King's, Liverpool Regiment, the Lincolns, the Royal Irish, and the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the latter losing fifteen officers killed and wounded.
Casualties at the Battle of Ramillies.
| Regiments. | Officers. | Men. | ||
| K. | W. | K. | W. | |
| King's Dragoon Guards | ||||
| 3rd Dragoon Guards | ||||
| 5th Dragoon Guards | ||||
| Carabiniers | ||||
| 7th Dragoon Guards | ||||
| Grenadier Gds. | ||||
| Coldstream Gds. | ||||
| Royal Scots | ||||
| Buffs | ||||
| King's Liverpool Regt. | ||||
| Lincolns | ||||
| East Yorkshire | ||||
| Bedfords | ||||
| Royal Irish | - | - | 4 | 6 |
| Royal Scots Fusiliers | ||||
| Royal Welsh Fusiliers | ||||
| 24th S. Wales Borderers | ||||
| 26th Cameronians | 2 | - | - | - |
| 28th Gloucester | ||||
| 29th Worcester | ||||
| 37th Hampshire | ||||
Note.—I have left the tables of casualties blank in the hope that some more diligent searcher after truth may be fortunate enough to find the missing details.
Oudenarde, June 30, 1708.
This, again, was one of those victories to commemorate which a medal was struck by order of Her Majesty Queen Anne, whilst a century and three-quarters later the name "Oudenarde" was inscribed on the colours and appointments of the following regiments, by order of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: