It received its Title and Badge of “The Plume of the Prince of Wales” in 1876.
It was nicknamed “The Old and Bold”; also “Calvert’s Entire” from its having three Battalions when Sir H. Calvert was Colonel from 1806 to 1826, who also exchanged its County Title with the Sixteenth Foot.
FIFTEENTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Sir William Clifton’s Regiment of Foot. 1685–1686 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1686–1751 15th Foot. 1751–1782 15th Yorkshire East Rid=ing. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1685—. | Yellow, 1685—. | Namur, 1695. Flanders, 1694–1697. Liege, 1702. Schellenberg, 1704. Blenheim, 1704. Ramilies, 1706. Oudenarde, 1708. Lisle, 1708. Tournay, 1709. Malplaquet, 1709. Bouchain, 1711. Germany, 1702–1712. Carthagena, 1741. Louisbourg, 1758. | Quebec, 1759. Sillery, 1760. Canada, 1758–1760. Martinique, 1762. Havannah, 1762. Brooklyn, 1776. Brandywine, 1777. Germantown, 1777. America, 1776–1778. St. Lucia, 1778. Martinique, 1794. Guadaloupe, 1794. Martinique, 1809. Guadaloupe, 1810. |
The Regiment was chiefly raised in Nottinghamshire.
SIXTEENTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Archibald Douglas’s Regiment of Foot. 1688 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1688–1751 16th Foot. 1751–1782 16th Buckinghamshire. 1782–1809 16th Bedfordshire. 1809—— | Scarlet, 1688—. | White, 1688. Yellow, since 1742—. | Walcourt, 1689. Steenkirk, 1692. Neer-Landen, 1693. Namur, 1695. Flanders, 1689–1697. Liege, 1702. Schellenberg, 1704. Blenheim, 1704. Ramilies, 1706. | Oudenarde, 1708. Lisle, 1708. Tournay, 1709. Malplaquet, 1709. Germany, 1702–1712. Carthagena, 1741. America, 1779–1781. Surinam, 1804. |
The Regiment was raised in the Southern Counties of England, it and the present 17th Foot are the only two remaining out of twelve raised in 1688.
It is not known when its facings were changed to Yellow.
It was nicknamed “The Old Bucks” from its County Title; but exchanged it in 1809 with the 14th Foot.