Fact Sheet No. C2
69th Regiment of Foot - Locations 1756-1881

1st Battalion 69th Regiment of Foot

20 September 1756 2nd Battalion of the 24th Regiment of Foot raised
May 1757 Leicester
July 1757 Amersham, Buckinghamshire (co-located with 1/24th)
Dorchester, Isle of Wight
23 April 1758 Re-designated as the 69th Foot
Service at sea with the Fleet
29 March 1760 - 25 May 1760 Belle Isle expedition (landed 8 April 1760)
24 December 17612 - 5 January 1762 Carlisle Bay, Barbados, West Indies
16 January 1762 - 14 February 1762 Martinique
February 1762 - 9 March 1768 Ireland
March 1768 - 26 December 1775 Gibraltar
26 December 1775 Gosport, Hampshire
1778 Warley, Essex
1779 Coxheath, Maidstone, Kent
Gosport, Hampshire
15 January 1781 - 14 January 1782 Barbados, West Indies
14 January 1782 - 25 January 1782 Antigua
25 January 1782 Basseterre, St Kitts and detachments with the Fleet
12 April 1782 Battle of the Saints off Island of Dominica
6 August 1782 - 1784 Dover Castle
1784 - 1793 Ireland
26 February 1793 Continuous service with the Fleet until 1798
7 February 1794 - 21 May 1794 Corsica expedition
1 June 1794 'The Glorious First of June'
1 January 1796 - 8 May 1796 San Domingo
24 September 1796 Spithead and Ireland
14 February 1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent
June 1799 - August 1799 Shirley, Southampton
13 August 1799 - 19 November 1799 Helder expedition
28 November 1799 Deal, Kent
1800 - 1802 Jamaica, West Indies
1802 Nottingham
8 March 1805 - 13 July 1805 En route to India
13 July 1805 - 1806 Fort St George, Madras and Vellore
1806 - December 1808 Trichmopoly, Madras
20 June 1810 - 3 July 1810 Rodriguez
7 July 1810 Landing at Island of Réunion
13 August 1810 - 26 December 1810 Isle de France (now known as Mauritius)
8 February 1811 - 29 April 1811 Madras
20 July 1811 - 22 October 1811 Java
7 December 1811 - 1813 Goa, India
Madras
1813 - September 1814 Seringapatam
6 September 1814 Bellary (detachment in Hyderabad in 1815)
25 July 1816 Gooty
- 4 November 1816 Bangalore (detachment to Mysore until 1817)
6 April 1818 Assault on Wassota in Mahratta War
10 May 1818 Assault on Sholapoor
13 May 1819 Assault on Copaul Droog
November 1818 - 5 February 1823 Cannanore, Malabar Coast (Flank Companies rejoined in December 1820)
5 February 1823 _ 16 October 1825 Wallajabad
26 February 1826 Gravesend, Kent, then Chatham
1847 - 1851 Malta
1851 - 1857 Barbados, West Indies
1857 - UK
24 January 1858 Rangoon, Burma then Tonghoo
1862 - February 1864 Madras
February 1864 - 1865 Gosport, Hampshire
Early 1865 - Summer 1866 North Camp, Aldershot, Hampshire
Summer 1866 - March 1867 Channel Islands (3 companies on Alderney, 2 companies on Guernsey and Headquarters on Jersey)
March 1867 - August 1867 The Curragh, Ireland
August 1867 Brantford and London, Ontario, Canada
Hamilton and Montreal, Canada
June 1869 The Citadel, Quebec
Huntington, Canada
31 May 1870 - November 1870 Quebec (New Colours: 21 June 1870)
November 1870 - 1873 Bermuda
1873 - December 1878 Gibraltar
1879 Sheffield, Yorkshire

2nd Battalion 69th Regiment of Foot

7 July 1802 2/69th raised
1805 Jersey, Channel Islands
Early 1806 Limerick, Ireland
- 17 December 1813 Lincoln and Norwich
25 December 1813 Williamstadt, Holland
8 March 1814 Assault on Bergen-op-Zoom
16 June 1815 Battle of Quartre Bras as part of 3rd Brigade
18 June 1815 Battle of Waterloo
8 July 1815 - January 1816 Paris
25 September 1816 Disbandment ordered
2 October 1816 Disbandment of 2/69th complete.