The SIXTY-SEVENTH, being thus formed from the Twentieth regiment, assumed the _pale yellow_ facing as worn by the Twentieth, which it has since retained. The following officers were appointed to commissions in the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment, on its formation from the 21st of April, 1758. _Colonel_, James Wolfe from 20th Regt. _Lieut.-Colonel_, Robert Robinson from 20th Regt. _Major_, Thomas Bowyer from 14th Foot. _Captains._ Chas. Veaitch, from 20th Regt. Edw. Goodenough, ditto William Delaune, ditto James Dunne, ditto Thos. Osborne, from 20th Regt. John Baldwin, from 51st Regt. Geo. Sherwin, from 20th Regt. _Lieutenants._ James Nesbitt, from 20th Regt. William Dughe, ditto William Edwards, ditto Francis Raper, ditto Freeheville Dykes, ditto Marmaduke Green, ditto John Gardner, ditto John Cane, ditto Richard Faulkner, ditto George Smith, from 20th Regt. William Yorke, ditto Philip Hales, ditto Henry Nesbit, ditto Thos. Wilkinson, ditto Alexander Rose, ditto John Matson, ditto Despard Croasdale, ditto _Ensigns._ Wm. Massey, from 20th Regt. Thomas Barker, ditto Joseph Collings, ditto Royston Barton, ditto George Sladdan. Robert Griffiths. Thomas Lowe. _Quarter-Master_, James Kirkman. _Chaplain_, George Carleton. _Surgeon_, Joseph Harris, from 20th Regiment. _Adjutant_, James England, ditto [Sidenote: 1759] After its formation as a distinct regiment, the SIXTY-SEVENTH remained at various stations in England during the years 1759 and 1760. Its Colonel, James Wolfe, had been appointed, in January, 1758, Brigadier-General in North America, and afterwards distinguished himself in the operations preceding the capture of _Cape Breton_, which surrendered on the 26th of July, 1758, and again in the expedition against _Quebec_, when he died of the wounds received at the battle on the heights of Abraham, above Quebec, on the 13th of September, 1759. On the 24th of October, 1759, His Majesty was pleased to confer the colonelcy of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment on Lieut.-Colonel Lord Frederick Cavendish, from the First Foot Guards, in succession to Major-General James Wolfe, deceased. The decease of King George II. occurred on the 25th of October, 1760, and on the day following His Majesty George III., grandson of the late Sovereign, was proclaimed King of Great Britain and Ireland. [Sidenote: 1760] On the 30th of October, 1760, His Majesty King George III. was pleased to remove Colonel Lord Frederick Cavendish to the Thirty-fourth regiment, and to appoint Major-General Sir Henry Erskine, Bart., to succeed him as Colonel of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment. [Sidenote: 1761]