| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel the Earl of Huntingdon’s Regiment of Foot. 1685–1688 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1688–1751 13th Foot. 1751–1782 13th First Somersetshire. 1782–1822 13th First Somersetshire Light Infantry. 1822–1842 13th First Somersetshire, Prince Albert’s Light Infantry. 1842—— | Scarlet, 1685—. | Yellow, 1685–1842. Blue, 1842—. | Boyne, 1690. Venloo, 1702. Liege, 1702. Flanders, 1701–1703. Gibraltar, 1704–1705. Barcelona, 1705. Caya, 1709. Spain, 1704–1711. Gibraltar, 1727. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Roucoux, 1746. Val, 1747. Flanders, 1742–1748. | Mandora, 1801. Alexandria, 1801. Egypt, 1801. Martinique, 1809. Guadaloupe, 1810. Plattsburg, 1814. Ava, 1824–1826. Affghanistan, 1839. Ghuznee, 1839. Jellalabad, 1842. Cabool, 1842. Sevastopol, 1855. Indian Mutiny, 1858. |
The Regiment was chiefly raised in Buckinghamshire.
It received its Title and Badge of “A Mural Crown” in 1842 for its defence of Jellalabad, where it captured three Standards from the Affghans; it also bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
The officers and sergeants were permitted to wear the knots of their sashes on the right sid=e for its conduct at the Battle of Culloden, 1746; and it is said= that the black worm in the lace was also granted for that battle.
Twenty-seven officers and six hundred and sixty men of the Regiment were formed into a Regiment of Dragoons in 1706, which served at the Battle of Almanza 1707. It was disbanded in 1713.
FOURTEENTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Sir Edward Foot. Hales’s Regiment of Foot. 1685–1688 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1688–1751 14th Foot. 1751–1782 14th Bedfordshire. 1782–1809 14th Buckinghamshire. 1809–1876 14th Buckinghamshire, Prince of Wales’s Own. 1876—— | Scarlet, 1685—. | Buff, 1685—. | Neer-Landen, 1693. Namur, 1695. Flanders, 1692–1696. Gibraltar, 1727. Flanders, 1745. America, 1775. Famars, 1793. Valenciennes, 1793. Dunkirk, 1793. Tournay, 1794. Guildermalsen, 1795. Flanders, 1793–1795. | St. Lucia, 1796. Corunna, 1809. Peninsula, 1808–1809. Flushing, 1809. Mauritius, 1810. Java, 1811. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1815. Bhurtpore, 1826. India, 1807–1831. Sevastopol, 1855. New Zealand, 1860–1866. |
The Regiment was raised in Kent.
It bears “The White Horse,” with the motto “Nec aspera terrent.”
It received its Crest of “The Royal Tiger” for its services in India from 1807 to 1831.