Historical record of the Eighty-Sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment of Foot / Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1793, and of its subsequent services to 1842.

by Richard Cannon

The regiment received orders to form their depôt companies preparatory to proceeding on service.

1842

The Gazette of January 7, 1842, announced the exchange of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Michael Creagh, K.H., with Lieut.-Colonel Derinzy, K.H., of the Eleventh regiment.

At the period of the conclusion of this record, the Eighty-sixth, or the Royal County Down Regiment, is under orders again to proceed to India. Although comparatively a young corps, it has performed much valuable service to the country in all quarters of the globe; it had not the good fortune to serve in the Peninsular War, in which so many corps acquired honorary inscriptions; but it has earned distinctions for its colours, which furnish a powerful incentive to perseverance in the path of duty and honor to all who may have their names recorded in the books of this distinguished regiment.

1842.

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS

OF

THE EIGHTY-SIXTH,

OR