CASUALTIES AT THE BATTLE OF DETTINGEN, JUNE 27, 1743.
+---------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +---------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |1st Life Guards | - | 3 | 3 | 4 | |2nd Life Guards | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | |Royal Horse Guards | - | 1 | 8 | 11 | |1st King's Dragoon Guards | 3 | 4 | 8 | 30 | |7th Dragoon Guards | - | 5 | 22 | 31 | |1st Royal Dragoons | - | - | 3 | 3 | |Scots Greys | - | 1 | - | - | |3rd Hussars | 1 | 6 | 41 | 100 | |4th Hussars | - | - | 4 | 5 | |6th Inniskillings | - | - | 2 | 1 | |7th Hussars | 2 | 2 | 2 | 15 | |Royal Artillery | 1 | - | 4 | 8 | |Grenadier Gds. | - | - | - | - | |Coldstream Gds. | - | - | - | - | |Scots Guards | - | - | - | - | |3rd Buffs | - | - | 3 | 3 | |8th King's Liverpool Regt. | 1 | 2 | 6 | 30 | |11th Devons | - | 2 | 11 | 28 | |12th Suffolk | 2 | 3 | 27 | 65 | |13th Somerset L.I. | - | 2 | 21 | 30 | |20th Lancashire Fusiliers | - | - | 1 | 2 | |21st Roy. Scots Fusiliers | 1 | 1 | 36 | 55 | |23rd Roy. Welsh Fusiliers | 1 | 1 | 15 | 27 | |31st E. Surrey | - | - | - | 1 | |32nd Cornwall L.I. | - | 1 | - | 3 | |33rd W. Riding Regt. | 4 | - | 26 | 50 | |37th Hampshire | - | 1 | 4 | 14 | +---------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
The Brigade of Guards, though bearing the honour, were not actually engaged at Dettingen.
NOTE.--Lieutenant Shaw of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers was promoted to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the Marines for gallantry at Dettingen.
The following six regiments bear this honour:
Suffolks. Lancashire Fusiliers. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. King's Own Scottish Borderers. Hampshire. King's Own Yorkshire L.I.
As at Dettingen, so at Minden, the British troops were acting in support of foreign allies. At the former we were supporting the cause of Austria against France, at the latter we were assisting Frederick the Great in his campaign against the combined forces of France and Austria. Our troops were under the command of Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, whose rôle it was to prevent Hanover (then an appanage of the British Crown) from being overrun by the French. In addition to the above regiments, there were present fifteen squadrons of English cavalry under Lord George Sackville, and four batteries of artillery under Captains Foy, Phillips, Drummond, and MacBean. The fruits of the victory and the glory of the day were marred by the inaction of the British cavalry, due to the supineness or something worse of Lord George Sackville. The feature was the majestic advance of the British infantry under Brigadiers Waldegrave and Kingsley, and the magnificent manner in which the four batteries of artillery followed the retreating French, converting an orderly retirement into a disorderly rout.