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The 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1741.Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) to form the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry in 1881.
43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1803 43rd (Monmouthshire Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot. 1741 Raised 1 March 1741 as Thomas Fowke's Regiment of Foot, ranked as 54th foot in 1747. Renumbered as 43rd in 1748/49 on disbandment of a number of regiments. [19] 1881: 1st Battalion, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry: The Rifles: 44: 44th ...
Officers of the 43rd Regiment of Foot from 1741 to its amalgamation with the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Light Infantry in 1881 when it formed the 1st Battalion The Oxfordshire Light Infantry. The Battalion became the 1st Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1908.
* 1 battalion of the 43rd Regiment of Foot: Effective strength of 991 out of a headcount of 991 whilst at sea as at 25 October 1814. [20] 900 men as at 5 January 1815. [21] 820 ORs on 8 January according to Major Pringle's letter. [11] Casualties 8 January: 11 killed; 163 wounded; 44 missing. Casualties 9 to 26 January: 1 killed; 5 wounded. [4]
Infantry units which remained in the British Isles during the war included the 2nd Foot (Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)), the 11th Foot (Devonshires), the 12th Foot (Suffolk), the 25th Foot (King's Own Scottish Borderers) at Sussex, the 32nd Foot at Cornwall, the 36th Foot at Herefordshire, the 39th Foot at East Middlesex, the 41st Foot ...
Cameron was commissioned as an ensign on 25 September 1787. [2] He served in the West Indies with the 43rd Regiment of Foot, under Sir Charles Grey, and was present at the siege of Fort Bourbon, the capture of Martinique, St. Lucia and Guadeloupe, and at the assault made by the enemy of Fleur d'épée; he next served under Brigadier-General C. Graham at Berville Camp in Guadeloupe; and ...
The period of comparative peace after 1713 ended with the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession, and in January 1741, Fowke became Colonel of a new regiment, the 43rd Foot. He exchanged into the Queen's Royal Regiment, then based in Scotland, and promoted Brigadier General in June 1745, three months before the Jacobite rising of 1745. [9]
The 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot was a Scottish infantry regiment in the British Army also known as the Black Watch.Originally titled Crawford's Highlanders or the Highland Regiment (mustered 1739) and numbered 43rd in the line, in 1748, on the disbanding of Oglethorpe's Regiment of Foot, they were renumbered 42nd, and in 1751 formally titled the 42nd (Highland) Regiment of Foot.