| Year. | Strength of all Ranks. |
|---|---|
| 1800 | 990 |
| 1801 | 1071 |
| 1802 | 914 |
| 1803 | 1215 |
| 1804 | 1259 |
| 1805 | 1415 |
| 1806 | 1398 |
| 1807 | 1480 |
| 1808 | 1476 |
| 1809 | 1484 |
| 1810 | 1484 |
| 1811 | 1524 |
| 1812 | 1562 |
| 1813 | 1565 |
| 1814 | 1230 |
| 1815 | 1130 |
| 1816 | 870 |
| 1817 | 786 |
| 1818 | 700 |
| 1819 | 604 |
| 1820 | 567 |
| 1821 | 601 |
From this date until 1847 the average strength of the battalion was 650.
| Year. | Strength of all Ranks. |
|---|---|
| 1847 | 956 |
| 1848 | 847 |
| 1849 | 890 |
| 1850 | 883 |
| 1851 | 940 |
| 1852 | 1028 |
| 1853 | 1081 |
| 1854 | 1218 |
| 1855 | 1375 |
| 1856 | 1317 |
| 1857 | 1502 |
The following was the dress of the battalion at its formation, in 1799, as also of the whole Regiment, except the Horse Artillery: the officers wore blue cloth double-breasted coats, with scarlet lappels; the field officers had two epaulettes, the company officers only one, which they wore on the right shoulder; white kerseymere breeches; long black leather boots, fastened to the back part of the knee of the breeches by a black strap and buckle; and a cocked-hat, with gold-loop and button, and white feather. The non-commissioned officers and men wore blue cloth coats, single breasted, laced in front and on the cuffs and flaps; the staff-sergeants and sergeants with gold lace, and the rank and file with yellow worsted lace. The staff-sergeants wore two gold bullion epaulettes; the sergeants two gold-laced straps; the corporals two fringe epaulettes; the bombardiers one fringe epaulette on the right shoulder; the gunners two worsted straps.
The changes in dress during the succeeding years will be noted in the succeeding chapters of this work.
Annexed is the list, as in former cases, of the various companies, their successive Captains, and the military operations in which they were engaged. In the Sixth Battalion, as in the Horse Artillery, considerable confusion was created by the reduction, in 1819, of Nos. 5 and 8 companies, and the consequent altering of the numbers of Nos. 6, 7, 9, and 10 to Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8 respectively. The reduction of the two junior companies, instead of Nos. 5 and 8, would have rendered the student's task a far easier one.
No. 1 COMPANY, 6th BATTALION
(One of the old East India Detachment Companies),
Now "C" BATTERY, 11th BRIGADE.
| Battles, Sieges, and other Military operations in which this Company has been engaged. | |
| 1806 | Siege of Buenos Ayres. |
| 1807 | Expedition to La Plata. |
| 1855 | Expedition to the Crimea and Fall of Sebastopol.[[60]] |
| List of Captains who have successively commanded the Company, as far back as can be traced, down to introduction of Brigade System, in 1859. | |
| 1799 | Captain Edmund Lemoine. |
| 1804 | Captain Nathaniel Foy. |
| 1806 | Captain C. C. Bingham. |
| 1807 | Captain P. Durnford. |
| 1826 | Captain W. Bentham. |
| 1832 | Captain I. Whitty. |
| 1843 | Captain G. H. Hyde. |
| 1844 | Captain J. H. St John. |
| 1846 | Captain R. R. Fisher. |
| 1849 | Captain W. J. Smythe. |
| 1855 | Captain E. Moubray. |
| 1856 | Captain J. Singleton. |