TWENTY-FOURTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
Colonel Sir Edward Dering’s Regiment of Foot. 1689
(Its Colonel’s name.) 1689–1751
24th Foot. 1751–1782
24th Warwickshire. 1782–1838
24th Second Warwickshire. 1838——		Scarlet, 1689—.Green, 1689—.Schellenberg, 1704.
Blenheim, 1704.
Neer-Hespen, 1705.
Malplaquet, 1709.
Germany, 1702–1710.
Carthagena, 1741.
Minorca, 1756.
Cherbourg, 1758.
Guadaloupe, 1759.
Corbach, 1760.
Denkern, 1761.
Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
Germany, 1760–1762.
Stillwater, 1777.
America, 1776–1781.
Egypt, 1801.		Cape of Good Hope, 1806.
Talavera, 1809.
Fuentes d’Onor, 1811.
Salamanca, 1812.
Vittoria, 1813.
St. Sebastian, 1813.
Pyrenees, 1813.
Nivelle, 1813.
Orthes, 1814.
Peninsula, 1809–1814.
Punjaub, 1848–1849.
Chillianwallah, 1849.
Goojerat, 1849.
Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858.

It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.

It was nicknamed “Howard’s Greens,” from its facings, and its Colonel’s name from 1717 to 1737.

TWENTY-FIFTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
The Edinburgh Regiment of Foot. 1689–1751
25th Edinburgh Regiment. 1751–1782
25th Sussex. 1782–1805
25th, The King’s Own Borderers. 1805——		Scarlet, 1689—.Yellow, 1689–1805.
Blue, 1805—.		Steenkirk, 1692.
Neer-Landen, 1693.
Namur, 1695.
Flanders, 1692–1697.
Gibraltar, 1727.
Fontenoy, 1745.
Roucoux, 1746.
Val, 1747.
Flanders, 1743–1747.
Cherbourg, 1758.
Minden, 1759.
Warbourg, 1760.		Campen, 1760.
Denkern, 1761.
Wilhelmstahl, 1762.
Germany, 1768–1763.
Gibraltar, 1782–1783.
Toulon, 1794.
Corsica, 1794.
Helder, 1799.
Egmont-op-Zee, 1799.
Egypt, 1801.
Martinique, 1809.

The Regiment was raised to defend the City of Edinburgh.

It bears “The Castle of Edinburgh,” with the motto “Nisi Dominus frustra”; also “The King’s Crest,” with motto “In veritate religionis confid=o”; also “The White Horse” with “Nec aspera terrent”; and “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.

It captured two stand of Colours at the battle of Val, 1847.

It is said= its facings once were Orange, if so it was before 1742.