It captured a Standard from the French at Talavera, 1809.
It is allowed to bear a star on the men’s pouches for service in the field.
THIRTIETH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Thomas Sanderson’s Regiment of Marines. 1702–1704 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1704–1714 Colonel Charles Willis’s Regiment of Foot. 1714–1716 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1716–1751 30th Foot. 1751–1782 30th Cambrid=geshire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1702—. | Yellow, since 1742. | Gibraltar, 1704–1705. Barcelona, 1705. Spain, 1704–1706. Cherbourg, 1758. Belle-Isle, 1761. Toulon, 1794. Corsica, 1794. Malta, 1800. Mandora, 1801. Alexandria, 1801. Marabout, 1801. | Egypt, 1801. Badajos, 1812. Salamanca, 1812. Peninsula, 1810–1813. Quatre-Bras, 1815. Waterloo, 1815. Netherlands, 1814–1815. Asseerghur, 1819. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was raised as one of six Regiments of Marines.
It bears “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
It was nicknamed “The Triple Xs” also “The Three Tens.”
THIRTY-FIRST FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | |||
| Uniform. | Facings. | ||||
| Colonel George Villiers’s Regiment of Marines. 1702–1703 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1703–1714 Colonel Sir Harry Goring’s Regiment of Foot. 1714–1751 31st Foot. 1751–1782 31st Huntingdonshire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1702—. | Buff, 1702—. | Gibraltar, 1704–1705. Barcelona, 1705. Spain, 1704–1706. Minorca, 1708. Dettingen, 1743. Fontenoy, 1745. Flanders, 1742–1745. America, 1776–1781. Martinique, 1794. St. Lucia, 1794. Guadaloupe, 1794. | St. Lucia, 1796. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. Alkmaer, 1799. Rosetta, 1807. Egypt, 1807. Talavera, 1809. Albuera, 1811. Vittoria, 1813. Pyrenees, 1813. Nivelle, 1813. Nive, 1813. | Orthes, 1814. Peninsula, 1809–1814. Cabool, 1842. Moodkee, 1845. Ferozeshah, 1845. Aliwal, 1846. Sobraon, 1846. Sevastopol, 1855. Taku Forts, 1860. |
The Regiment was raised as one of six Regiments of Marines.