Quarter-Master,James Kirkman.
Chaplain,George Carleton.
Surgeon,Joseph Harris, from 20th Regiment.
Adjutant,James England,ditto

1759

After its formation as a distinct regiment, the SIXTY-SEVENTH remained at various stations in England during the years 1759 and 1760. Its Colonel, James Wolfe, had been appointed, in January, 1758, Brigadier-General in North America, and afterwards distinguished himself in the operations preceding the capture of Cape Breton, which surrendered on the 26th of July, 1758, and again in the expedition against Quebec, when he died of the wounds received at the battle on the heights of Abraham, above Quebec, on the 13th of September, 1759.

On the 24th of October, 1759, His Majesty was pleased to confer the colonelcy of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment on Lieut.-Colonel Lord Frederick Cavendish, from the First Foot Guards, in succession to Major-General James Wolfe, deceased.

The decease of King George II. occurred on the 25th of October, 1760, and on the day following His Majesty George III., grandson of the late Sovereign, was proclaimed King of Great Britain and Ireland.

1760

On the 30th of October, 1760, His Majesty King George III. was pleased to remove Colonel Lord Frederick Cavendish to the Thirty-fourth regiment, and to appoint Major-General Sir Henry Erskine, Bart., to succeed him as Colonel of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment.

1761

In the spring of 1761 the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment formed part of the force selected to proceed, under the command of Major-General Studholme Hodgson, against Belle-Isle, a French island in the Bay of Biscay, off the coast of Brittany. Major-General Hodgson had the undermentioned officers and regiments placed under his orders, which amounted to nearly nine thousand men:—

Major-General John Craufurd; Brigadier-Generals William Rufane, Hamilton Lambert (afterwards Colonel of the SIXTY-SEVENTH), Guy Carleton, Honorable William Howe, Robert Douglas, and Philip Jennings; Deputy-Adjutant-General Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, Bart.; Deputy-Quartermaster-General Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Thomas.