The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-02-22 00:00:00

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' Royal ' was added, in 1751, on George the Second's
warrant numbering regiments being issued, it was called
the 21st, and in 1877 its present title wam conferred upon
it. It bears an emblematic bedizenment in front of its
cap, the thistle within the circle of St. Andrew, th,
motto Nemo me impune lacesset.' and the Royal
cypher and crown. Its honours are those of Bladens-
burg (1814) and the Crimea; but its records are in.
scribed with a roll of arduons struggles nobly sustained
in Flanders from 1689 to 1697, in Germany from 1702
to 1712, in Flanders a7ain from 1742 to 1748, in
America from 1776 to 1781, and subsequently in the
West Indies, the lonian Islands. and the Nether-
lands.

"The 57th (West Middlesex), which will probably
be the first to arrive at the scene of action, coming as
it does from Ceylon, is a corps with magnificent tradi-
tions. Its facings are yellow. It was raised in Glou-
cestershire and Somersetehire as the 59th in 17:5. A
57th was also raised in that year, but has .ince become
the 55th Westmoreland. The present 57th received
its number two years later, and the county designation
which it has since borne in 1782. Albuera, Vittoria,
Pyrenees, Nivelle Nive, Peninsula, Inkerman,
Sevastopol, New Zealand, are the names upon its
colours. It was also present at Brooklyn (1776), York-
town (1781), Nieuport (1793), Niniegnen (1794), and St.
Lucia (1796), and at Aseerghur in 1819, and during the
Indian Mutiny. At Albuera only one officer out of
four-and-twenty was left standing, and one hundred
and sixty-eight men out of five hundred and eighty-
four. The King's colour was riddled by thirty bullets.
Inglis, the heroic colonel, cried out frequently 'Die
hard, my men, die hard,' and from that day to this
the gallant 57th are recognised in camp and barrack
as the Die-hards.' At Inkerman the officer corn-
mending the 57th inspired his following by the thrilling
words, 'Men, remember Albuera!' Private Charles
M'Corrie earned the Victoria Cross, the soldier's most
valued distinction, by throwing a live shell over the
parapet on the night of the 23rd June, 1855.
"The 58th (Rutlandshire) hns black facings, whence
its nickname of the Black Cuffs. The regiment is
known as the Rutlandshire only since 1782, having
been originally raised in the south-west of England.
It bears the word Gihraltar, with a castle, key,
and Montis insignia Calpe as motto for its share in
the memorable defence of the Mediterranean strong-
hold: Egypt, with the Sphinx, for the campaign
of 1801? and, in luminous succession on its colours,
Maida, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes,
Peninsula, and New Zealand, where it was stationed
from 1842 to 1856. The 58th was the 60th Foot from
1755 to 1757, when it received its present number,
and the former 58th was transformed into the 56th West
Essex. The regiment is sometimes called the Steel
Backs. In addition to the services inscribed on its
colours, it was in Canada from 1758 to 1762, when it
went to Havannah, it was at Martinique in 1794, at
Minorca in 1798, and at Plattsburg in 1814.

"The 60th (King's Royal Rifle Corps) is arrayed in
green, with scarlet facings, and hag for its colonel in
chief the Duke of Cambridge. Originally raised in
America, it has been successively known as the 62nd
Loyal American Provincials from 1755 to 1757, the 60th
Royal Americans from 1757 to 1816, the 60th Royal
American Light Infantry from 1816 to 1820, the 60th
Royal Americans again from 1820 to 1824, the Duke of
York's Own Rifle Corps thence to 1830, since which
period it bears its current name. It is said to have
had no facings for the ten years from 1814 to 1824
General Wolfe gave it its motto of Celer t audax 'for
its splendid behaviour at the siege of Quebec. Its
glorious beadroll of victories ranges from Roleia
through the sternest fields of the Peninsula,
Martinique, the Punjab, and Delhi, to the China
campaigns of 1860. But, in addition to those with
which it is credited in the Army List, it wrote its name
in crimson and gold in Canada from Ticonderoga down
to 1730, in the West Indies in 1762, in Grenada in
1796, and at the Cape in .the harassing campaigns from
1850 to 1853.

"The 91st (the Princess Louisa's Argyllshire High-
landers) wears scarlet and yellow facings, and, though
a Highland regiment, is not one of those which sport
the kilt. It was raised, as the 98th, in Stirling, by
the Duke of Argyll, from whom it received its name,
in 1794, and was called the 91st since 1798. It has
been known by its present name for the last five years,
and has added to its insignia the Lady of Lorne's
cypher and coronet. The Campbell crest, the boar's head,
is also reckoned amongst its badges, and the motto,
Nc obliviscaris.' A regiment known as the 91st was
disbanded no less than three times previous to 1798.
The corps got its baptism of fire at the Cape in 1795.
The present sturdy regiment carries among its honour*
eight of the stiffest engagements of the Peninsular
war, commencing with &dela and ending with Tou-
louse. But it is only justice to it to note that it
was present, and acquitted itself well at Bayonne in
1814, at Bergen-op-Zoom, and in the Cape again from
1846 until 1853.

" The 94th Foot has no county designation, but as
its Brigade Depot is at Armagh, and the Armagh
Light Infantry, the Louth Rifles, and the Cavan and
Monaghan Militia are linked with it, to all intents
and purposes it may he regarded as a distinctively
Irish organisation. There have been several ri-giments
with the number: the first, raised in MO, and
disbanded three years later, was called the Royal
Welsh Volunteers; the second was raised in 1780,
and disembodied in 1783; and the third, which
was added to the roll of the British Line in
1794 survived but two years. Yet another,
which had been the Scots Brigade in the Dutch ser-
vice for over two centuries, and had afterwards been
adopted into ours, was called the 94th in 1802, and
disbanded in 1818. The existing corps would appear
to have been got together at Glasgow in 1823, and has
not had the chance of active service, as far as can be
ascertained, since its re-establishment. Nevertheless
it bears on its colours the elephant in memory of the
badge of the 94th disbanded in 1818, and the words,
eloquent with martial associations, Beringapatam,
Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria,
Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, and Peninsula,"