HUNDRED AND NINTH FOOT.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
East India Company’s 3rd Bombay European Regiment. 1854–1858
3rd Bombay Regiment. 1858–1861
109th Bombay Infantry. 1861——		Scarlet, 1854—.White, 1854—.Central India, 1858.
Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858.

The Regiment was raised in India, and in 1860 a number of men from the late German Legion were incorporated into the Regiment.

The first Regiment numbered the 109th was raised in 1761, and disbanded in 1763.

The second was the 109th Aberdeenshire, raised in 1794, and disbanded in 1795.

RIFLE BRIGADE.

Titles.Colour ofCampaigns, Battles, &c.
Uniform.Facings.
The Rifle Corps. 1800–1802
95th, or Rifle Corps. 1802–1816
Rifle Brigade. 1816–1862
The Prince Consort’s Own Rifle Brigade. 1862——		Green, 1800—.Black, 1800—.Buenos Ayres, 1806.
Monte-Vid=eo, 1807.
Copenhagen, 1801.
Copenhagen, 1807.
Roleia, 1808.
Vimiera, 1808.
Corunna, 1809.
Flushing, 1809.
Busaco, 1810.
Barrossa, 1811.
Sabugal, 1811.
Fuentes d’Onor, 1811.
Tarifa, 1811.		Cuid=ad Rodrigo, 1812.
Badajos, 1812.
Salamanca, 1812.
Vittoria, 1813.
St. Sebastian, 1813.
Nivelle, 1813.
Nive, 1813.
Orthes, 1814.
Tarbes, 1814.
Toulouse, 1814.
Peninsula, 1808–1814.
Antwerp, 1814.
New Orleans, 1814.		Quatre-Bras, 1815.
Waterloo, 1815.
Netherlands, 1814–1815.
Cape of Good Hope, 1846–1853.
Alma, 1854.
Inkerman, 1854.
Sevastopol, 1855.
Lucknow, 1858.
Indian Mutiny, 1857–1858.
Ashantee, 1874.

The Regiment was raised from detachments of the 1st, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 29th, 49th, 55th, 67th, 69th, 71st, 72nd, 79th, 85th, and 92nd Regiments of Foot, and was then commonly known as “Manningham’s Sharpshooters” from its Colonel’s name, and its being armed with rifles.

It bore a “Bugle Horn” before the badge of “The Maltese Cross” was adopted, which probably took place when the names of victories were first granted. It was at first surmounted with a figure of “Fame.” The Cross was surmounted by a Crown about 1830.

It ranks next to the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders.