=1st Batt.=
1744-48. The 63rd (American) Regiment of Foot: renumbered The 49th.
1757-58. The 8th King's (2nd Batt.) Regiment; regimented in
1758-82. The 63rd Regiment of Foot.
1782-81. The 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot.
=2nd Batt.=
1760-63. The 96th Regiment of Foot (raised for service in the
Carnatic): disbanded.
1780-83. The 96th (British Musketeers) Regiment: disbanded.
1793-98. The 96th (The Queen's Royal Irish) Regiment; dispersed.
1803-16. The 96th Regiment of Foot (raised as 2nd Batt. 52nd Foot:
renumbered The 95th, and as such disbanded in 1818).
1815-18. The 96th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot (raised in 1798 as
The Queen's Germans: numbered The 97th in 1802: renumbered,
in 1815, the 96th: disbanded in 1818--the Egyptian and Peninsular
honours of this corps were assumed by the late 96th).
1824-81. The 96th Regiment of Foot.
1881 (from). The Manchester Regiment.
PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, &c.
* "Honours" on the Colours, the figures showing the Battalion
concerned.
1759. Guadaloupe.
1775-81. America.
1775. Bunker's Hill.
1776. Long Island.
1776. Brooklyn.
1777. Brandywine.
1777. Germantown.
1781. Entaw Springs.
1794-95. Flanders.
1794. Nimeguen.
1794. Martinique.
1794. Guadaloupe.
1796. Grenada.
1796. St. Vincent.
1796. St. Lucia.
1799. Bergen.
*1799. Egmont-op-Zee (1).
1799. Alkmaer.
*1801. Egypt (2).
1801. Alexandria.
*1808-11. Peninsula (2).
*1809. Martinique (1).
1809. Flushing.
*1810. Guadaloupe (1).
1814. Bergen-op-Zoom.
1815. Guadaloupe.
*1845-47. New Zealand (2).
*1854. Alma (1).
*1854. Inkerman (1).
*1855. Sevastopol (1).
*1879-80. Afghanistan (1).
*1882. Egypt (1 & 2).
1900. South Africa.
UNIFORM.--Scarlet with White facings (before territorialisation
the facings of the 1st and 2nd Batts. were Green and Yellow
respectively).
REGIMENTAL AND OTHER BADGES.--"The Sphinx" for Egypt (1801) by
descent from the 96th Regiment of 1798-1818. Also (since 1881)
The Arms of the City of Manchester.
NICKNAME.--"The Bloodsuckers" (of the 63rd).
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_The History of the late 63rd (West Suffolk)
Regiment._ By Major James Slack, late 63rd Regiment. [London:
Army and Navy Co-operative Society. 1884.]
The Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment),