=1st Batt.=
1743-48. The 62nd Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1755-57. The 62nd (Royal American) Regiment of Foot: renumbered
The 60th.
1756-57. The 62nd Regiment of Foot: renumbered The 77th.
1756-58. The 4th King's Own (2nd Batt.): separately regimented as
The 62nd Foot.
1758-82. The 62nd Regiment of Foot.
1782-1881. The 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot.
=2nd Batt.=
1760-63. The 99th Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1780-83. The 99th (Jamaica) Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1794-98. The 99th Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1804-11. The 99th Regiment of Foot: renumbered The 98th (or Prince of
Wales' Tipperary) Regiment of Foot: disbanded in 1818.
1805-15. The 100th Regiment of Foot: renumbered in
1815-18. The 99th (H.R.H. The Prince Regent's County of Dublin)
Regiment of Foot: disbanded.
1824-74. The 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot.
1874-81. The 99th (The Duke of Edinburgh's) Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment).
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours, the figures showing the Battalion
concerned.
1743. Dettingen.
1745. Fontenoy.
1745. Jacobite rising.
1746. Culloden.
1758. Carrickfergus.
1776-80. America.
1777. Stillwater.
1793-8. San Domingo.
1795. Demerara.
1795. Essequebo.
1795. Berbice.
1809. Scylla.
1813. Niagara.
*1813-14. Peninsula (1).
1813. Bidassoa.
*1813. Nive (1).
1814. Bayonne.
1814-15. America.
*1845-47. New Zealand (2).
*1845. Ferozeshah (1).
*1846. Sobraon (1).
*1855. Sevastopol (1).
1860. China.
*1860. Pekin (2).
1878-80. South Africa (2).
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--Scarlet with Buff facings (1st Batt. from 1758-1881),
and Scarlet with Yellow facings (2nd Batt. from 1824-1881). Now
Scarlet with White facings for both batts.
REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--"The Duke of Edinburgh's Coronet
and Cypher" (this in combination with a Maltese Cross, adopted by
the 62nd in 1806, and the Regulation Star and Wreath).
NICKNAME.--"The Springers" (tradition says that the 62nd was
so called from its employment as a light battalion during the
American War in 1777).
NOTES.--For its defence, in 1760, against the French, of the
Castle of Carrickfergus it at one time wore a "splash" on the
buttons. After the ammunition was expended bricks and stones
were thrown, and, so the story runs, their buttons were used as
bullets. The 99th were raised in Lanarkshire--hence its former
county title.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_"The Springers." The 62nd Regiment._ By H. M. C.
[Dublin: Carson. 1891.]
The Manchester Regiment,