Lieut.-Colonel George Guy Carleton L’Estrange, who was promoted from major in the THIRTY-FIRST regiment, to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the twenty-sixth regiment on the 15th of December 1812, was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath for his conduct while serving with the second battalion of the THIRTY-FIRST regiment. On the 23rd of September, the _second battalion_ proceeded to Portsmouth, where it was disbanded on the 24th of October 1814, the officers and men, fit for service, being transferred to the _first battalion_ of the THIRTY-FIRST regiment, at that period stationed in Sicily. 1814 [Illustration: THE 31^{ST} REG^T SUTLEJ TESTIMONIAL ERECTED IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL _For Cannon’s Military Records_] FOOTNOTES: [38] Vide page 64. [39] Major-General Sir William Napier’s History of the Peninsular War. [40] History of the Peninsular War by Major-General Sir William Napier. [41] Lieut.-General Rowland Hill was nominated a Knight of the Bath on the 22nd of February, 1812. [42] Major-General Byng, the present General the Earl of Strafford, and Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, in consideration of his gallantry in the action of the 13th of December, 1813,--wherein he led his troops, under a most galling fire, to the assault of a strong height occupied in great force by the enemy, and having himself ascended the hill first with the Colour of the THIRTY-FIRST regiment of foot in his hand, he planted the Colour upon the summit, and drove the enemy (far superior in numbers) down the ridge to the suburbs of _St. Pierre_,--received the Royal Authority on the 7th of July, 1815, to bear the following honorable augmentation, namely, “Over the arms of the family of Byng, in bend sinister, a representation of the Colour of the THIRTY-FIRST regiment,” and the following crest, namely, “Out of a mural crown an arm embowed, grasping the Colour of the aforesaid THIRTY-FIRST regiment, and, pendent from the wrist by a riband, the Gold Cross presented to him by His Majesty’s command, as a mark of his royal approbation of his distinguished services,” and in an escrol above the word “_Mouguerre_,” being the name of a height near the hamlet of _St. Pierre_. SUCCESSION OF COLONELS OF THE THIRTY-FIRST, OR THE HUNTINGDONSHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT. GEORGE VILLIERS, _Appointed 12th February 1702_. This officer did not long enjoy the colonelcy of the regiment, as his decease occurred in December 1703, when he was unfortunately drowned while in command of the regiment on board the fleet. ALEXANDER LUTTERELL, _Appointed 6th December 1703_. Upon the decease of Colonel Villiers, Lieut.-Colonel Alexander Lutterell was promoted to the colonelcy of the THIRTY-FIRST regiment, which he held but for a few years, his decease occurring early in the year 1706. JOSIAH CHURCHILL, _Appointed 1st February 1706_.