"I have, &c. (Signed) "JOHN MACDONALD, "Adjutant-General. "Lieutenant-Colonel Sutherland, "Commanding the FIFTH Regiment, Malta." The reserve companies embarked from Cork on the 1st of August, 1835, and proceeded to Dover, where they passed the succeeding fifteen months, and in October, 1836, marched to Gosport. [Illustration: FIFTH REGIMENT OF FOOT (NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS), M DCCC XXXV.] [Sidenote: 1836] His Majesty King William IV. having been pleased, in 1836, to approve of the corps being equipped as Fusiliers, and designated the "FIFTH REGIMENT OF FOOT, OR NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS;" commissioned the Ensigns as second Lieutenants accordingly, and gave his Royal permission that the word "WILHELMSTHAL," in commemoration of _the field_ on which it originally took its grenadier caps from the enemy, should be borne on its colours and appointments, as will appear by the subjoined copies of letters. "_Horse-Guards, 4th of May, 1836._ "Sir, "I have the honour to acquaint you, by direction of the General Commanding-in-Chief, that his Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the FIFTH OR NORTHUMBERLAND REGIMENT OF FOOT, being in future equipped as a Fusilier Regiment, and being styled the FIFTH REGIMENT OF FOOT, OR NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. "I have, &c. (Signed) "JOHN MACDONALD, "Adjutant-General. "Officer commanding the Fifth Regiment of Foot, "or Northumberland Fusiliers." "_Horse-Guards, 14th of May, 1836._ "Sir, "I have the honour to acquaint you, by direction of the General Commanding-in-Chief, that his Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the FIFTH REGIMENT OF FOOT, OR NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, to bear on its colours and appointments, in addition to any other badges or devices which may have heretofore been authorized, the word 'WILHELMSTHAL,' in commemoration of the gallantry displayed by the regiment while serving with the allied army, under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, at the battle of Groebenstein, on the 24th of June, 1762, particularly in the capture of a great number of prisoners belonging to the grenadiers of France, and the regiment d'Aquitaine, in the woods of 'WILHELMSTHAL.' "I have, &c. (Signed) "JOHN MACDONALD, "Adjutant-General. "Officer commanding Fifth Foot, "or Northumberland Fusiliers, "Malta." On the 14th of December, 1836, the Governor of Malta, Major-General Sir Henry Bouverie, presented the new colours to the regiment, drawn up for the purpose in review order on the Florian Parade.