The Regimental Records of the British Army / A historical résumé chronologically arranged of titles, campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc.

by John S. Farmer; John Stephen Farmer

*1857. Lucknow.

1857. Agra.

*1876-80. Afghanistan.

*1878. Peiwar Kotal.

*1885-87. Burma.

1900. South Africa.

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Uniform.—Scarlet and bright Yellow facings (1685 to 1716); Scarlet and Blue facings (from 1716).

Regimental and other Badges.—"The White Horse within the Garter" (for services during the Jacobite rising of 1715, the corps suffering heavily at Dunblane. At the same time and for a similar reason it received its title of "King's"). Also "The Royal Cypher and the Imperial Crown." Also "The Sphinx," for Egypt (1801). Motto, "Nec aspera terrent" ("Nor do difficulties terrify us").

Notes.—Raised chiefly in Derbyshire at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion.