-------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- 99th Foot. 1824–1832|Scarlet,|Yellow, |Pekin, 1860. 99th Lanarkshire. | 1824--.|1824--. |New Zealand, 1845–1847. 1832–1874| | | 99th, The Duke of | | | Edinburgh’s. 1874----| | | -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised in Lanarkshire. It bears “The Duke of Edinburgh’s Coronet and Cypher.” The first Regiment numbered the 99th was raised in 1760, and disbanded in 1763. The second was the 99th or Jamaica Regiment of Foot, raised in 1780, and disbanded in 1783. The third was raised in 1794, and disbanded in 1798. The fourth was raised in 1804, received the title of “Prince of Wales’s Tipperary” in 1811, and was disbanded in 1818 as the 98th. It had Yellow facings. The fifth was raised in 1805 as the 100th, renumbered 99th in 1815, it was disbanded in 1818 as the “99th His Royal Highness the Prince Regent’s County of Dublin.” Its facings were Yellow. HUNDREDTH FOOT. -------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- 100th Prince of Wales’s |Scarlet,| Blue, | Royal Canadian. | 1858--.|1858--. | 1858----| | | -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised in Canada. It bears “The Plume of the Prince of Wales,” also “A Maple Leaf.” The first Regiment numbered the 100th was the 100th Highlanders, raised in 1760, and disbanded in 1763. The second was raised in 1780; it served in India from 1781 to 1784, during which time it lost 89 officers and 1,200 men killed in action and died of disease; it was disbanded in 1785. The third was raised in 1794, and is now the 92nd “Gordon Highlanders.” The fourth was the “100th Prince Regent’s County of Dublin,” raised in 1805, and disbanded in 1818 as the 99th. The fifth was raised in 1798 as the “New South Wales Corps,” made 102nd in 1809, and was disbanded in 1818 as the 100th; its facings were yellow. HUNDRED AND FIRST FOOT.