Casualties at Wandewash.
| Regiments. | Officers. | Men. | ||
| K. | W. | K. | W. | |
| Draper's Regiment (79th) | 3 | 4 | 17 | 66 |
| Coote's Regiment (84th) | 1 | 3 | 13 | 36 |
| Royal Dublin Fusiliers | 1 | 1 | 3 | 29 |
Pondicherry, 1761, 1778, 1793.
This battle honour is borne only by the Royal Dublin Fusiliers (at that time the 1st Madras European Regiment), and was conferred upon it by the Governor of Madras in recognition of its services at the three sieges of that fortress in the years 1761, 1778, and 1793. The operations were conducted by Sir Eyre Coote, an officer who had received his early training in the 39th (Dorsets), and who, on that regiment being recalled to England, undertook, as I have shown, to raise a battalion for service in India.
This corps, which was numbered the 84th, and which we have already seen at Wandewash, played an all-important part in the early campaigns waged in India; but as it was disbanded in the year 1788, the battle honours it gained are not to be found on the colours of any existing regiment. Coote laid siege to Pondicherry in the month of September, 1760, but it was not until the January following that the Governor surrendered. In accordance with our invariable custom, the fortress and neighbouring colony were restored to the French on the conclusion of peace in 1763. The regiments associated with the Dublin Fusiliers in the Siege of Pondicherry in 1760 were the 79th (Draper's Regiment), the 84th (Coote's), the 89th (Highlanders), under Major Hector Munro, and the 96th, under the Hon. G. Monson. None of these corps survive to bear the battle honour.
In the year 1778, on the renewal of the war with France, the reduction of Pondicherry once more became a matter of urgent necessity. On this occasion the Dublin Fusiliers were again to the fore in their capacity as the 1st Madras European Regiment (two of its battalions being present). With them were no less than ten battalions of sepoys. Many of these are still borne on the rolls of the Madras army. The distinction has not been conferred on the Indian corps for the operations in 1778; but if the losses suffered during a successful campaign constitute a claim to a battle honour, the words "Pondicherry, 1778," may well be accorded to the regiments who figure in the subjoined list of casualties.
Casualties at Pondicherry, 1778.
| Regiments. | Officers. | Men. | ||
| K. | W. | K. | W. | |
| Dublin Fus. (two battalions) | 1 | 8 | 45 | 92 |
| Bengal Recruits | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 62nd Punjabis (Natives) | - | 2 | 17 | 57 |
| 67th Punjabis (Natives) | - | 2 | 10 | 37 |
| 69th Punjabis (British) | 1 | - | - | - |
| Do. (Natives) | - | 2 | 7 | 36 |
| 72nd Punjabis (British) | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Do. (Natives) | - | 1 | 6 | 43 |
| 73rd Carnatic Inf. (British) | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| 73rd Carnatic Inf. (Natives) | 1 | - | 6 | 14 |
| 74th Punjabis (Natives) | - | - | 21 | 34 |
| 75th Carnatic Inf. (British) | 1 | - | - | - |
| Do. (Natives) | - | - | 23 | 44 |
| 76th Punjabis (Natives) | - | - | 8 | 29 |
| 79th Carnatic Inf. (British) | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Do. (Natives) | - | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 80th Carnatic Inf. (British) | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Do. (Natives) | - | 2 | 8 | 35 |
Note.—The total losses of the Company's troops at Pondicherry in 1778 were 148 sepoys killed and 482 wounded. For this success Hector Munro, who commanded, was made a K.B.