It was commonly known at Quebec, 1759, as “Wolfe’s Own,” and it now wears a black worm in the lace as an expression of sorrow for his death.
It was nicknamed “The Cauliflowers” from its facings; also “The Lancashire Lads” from its county title.
FORTY-EIGHTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel James Cholmondeley’s Regiment of Foot. 1741–1743 (Its Colonel’s name.) 1743–1751 48th Foot. 1751–1782 48th Northamptonshire. 1782—— | Scarlet, 1741—. | Buff, 1741—. | Fontenoy, 1745. Val, 1747. Flanders, 1744–1747. Louisbourg, 1758. Quebec, 1759. Sillery, 1760. Canada, 1755–1760. Martinique, 1762. Havannah, 1762. St. Lucia, 1796. Malta, 1800. Douro, 1809. Talavera, 1809. | Busaco, 1810. Albuera, 1811. Cuid=ad Rodrigo, 1812. Badajos, 1812. Salamanca, 1812. Vittoria, 1813. Pyrenees, 1813. Nivelle, 1813. Orthes, 1814. Toulouse, 1814. Peninsula, 1809–1814. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was raised, it is said=, at Norwich.
FORTY-NINTH FOOT.
| Titles. | Colour of | Campaigns, Battles, &c. | ||
| Uniform. | Facings. | |||
| Colonel Edward Trelawney’s Regiment of Foot. 1743–1751 49th Foot. 1751–1782 49th Hertfordshire. 1782–1816 49th Hertfordshire (The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s). 1816—— | Scarlet, 1743—. | Green, 1743—. | Bunker’s Hill, 1775. Brooklyn, 1776. Brunx, 1776. Brandywine, 1777. America, 1775–1778. St. Lucia, 1778. Egmont-op-Zee, 1799. | Copenhagen, 1801. Queenstown, 1812. Chrystler’s Farm, 1813. China, 1840–1842. Alma, 1854. Inkerman, 1854. Sevastopol, 1855. |
The Regiment was formed from two Companies of one of the Regiments raised in the reign of Queen Anne, which had remained at Jamaica and of six other Companies formed in that Colony.
It bears “The Dragon” for its services in China, 1840 to 1842.
It received its Title in 1816 in commemoration of its doing duty over the Princess at Weymouth.