The loss of the Thirty-sixth regiment in this battle was Major Petrie, Lieutenant Brodie, two serjeants, and twenty-two rank and file, killed; with Lieut.-Colonel Jackson, Captains Morgan, Pechell, Dod, and Gore, Lieutenant Ackland, Ensigns Vaughan, Duncan, Elrington, Strong, and Porter, three serjeants, two drummers, and seventy-four rank and file, wounded; and eighty-two men missing.
After withdrawing from the field of battle, the army continued its retreat to Maestricht, where it arrived on the same evening. The Thirty-sixth regiment was subsequently employed in various parts of the provinces of Limburg and North Brabant.
1748.
The regiment again took the field in the spring of 1748, and was employed in several operations, but no general engagement occurred. Hostilities were at length terminated by a treaty of peace, which was signed at Aix-la-Chapelle on the 7th of October 1748. During the winter the Thirty-sixth returned to England.
1749.
On its arrival from Holland, the establishment of the regiment was reduced, and it was ordered to proceed to Gibraltar, in which fortress it was stationed during the five following years.
1751.
Colonel Lord Robert Manners was appointed by His Majesty King George II. to the colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment on the 13th of March 1751, in succession to Major-General James Fleming, deceased.
In the Royal Warrant, dated the 1st of July 1751, for ensuring uniformity in the clothing, standards, and colours of the army, and regulating the numerical title and rank of regiments, the facings of the Thirty-sixth were directed to be green. The first, or King’s colour, was the great union; the second, or regimental colour, was of green silk, with the union in the upper canton; in the centre of the colour the number of the rank of the regiment, in gold Roman characters, within a wreath of roses and thistles on the same stalk.
1754.