It was nicknamed “The Havercake Lads” from its recruiting sergeants always preceding the party with an oatcake on their swords. THIRTY-FOURTH FOOT. -------------------------+-----------------+----------------------- | Colour of | Titles. +--------+--------+Campaigns, Battles, &c. |Uniform.|Facings.| -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- Colonel Lord Lucas’s |Scarlet,|Yellow, |Barcelona, 1705. Regiment of Foot. | 1702--.|1702--. |Spain, 1705–1707. 1702–1705| | |Douay, 1710. (Its Colonel’s name.) | | |Bouchain, 1711. 1705–1751| | |Germany, 1709–1712. 34th Foot. 1751–1782| | |Gibraltar, 1727. 34th Cumberland. 1782----| | |Fontenoy, 1745. | | |Flanders, 1744–1746. | | |Minorca, 1756. | | |Cherbourg, 1758. | | |Havannah, 1762. | | |Stillwater, 1777. | | |America, 1776–1777. | | |Guadaloupe, 1794. | | |St. Lucia, 1796. | | |Albuera, 1811. | | |Arroyo-dos-Molinos, | | | 1811. | | |Vittoria, 1813. | | |Maya, 1813. | | |Pyrenees, 1813. | | |Nivelle, 1813. | | |Nive, 1813. | | |Orthes, 1814. | | |Peninsula, 1809–1814. | | |Sevastopol, 1855. | | |Lucknow, 1858. | | |Indian Mutiny, 1857– | | | 1858. -------------------------+--------+--------+----------------------- The Regiment was raised in Norfolk and Essex. It bears “A Laurel Wreath,” and is also allowed to wear The Royal Worm in the lace of its drummer’s coats for covering the retreat of the Army after Fontenoy, 1745. It wears a red and white pompon in imitation of the French for its capturing the 34th French Infantry at Arroyo-dos-Molinos, 1811. THIRTY-FIFTH FOOT.