CASUALTIES AT THE BATTLE OF OUDENARDE, JUNE 30, 1708.
+--------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +--------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |1st King's Dragoon Guards | | | | | |3rd Dragoon Guards | | | | | |5th Dragoon Guards | | | | | |6th Carabiniers | | | | | |7th Dragoon Guards | | | | | |Scots Greys | | | | | |5th Lancers | | | | | |Grenadier Gds. | 2 | - | - | - | |Coldstream Gds. | | | | | |Royal Artillery | | | | | |Royal Scots | | | | | |3rd Buffs | | | | | |8th Roy. Liverpool Regt. | | | | | |10th Lincoln | | | | | |15th E. Yorkshire | | | | | |16th Bedford | | | | | |18th Roy. Irish | 1 | - | 8 | 12 | |21st Roy. Scots Fusiliers | | | | | |23rd Roy. Welsh Fusiliers | | | | | |24th S. Wales Borderers | | | | | |26th Cameronians | | | | | |37th Hampshire | | | | | +--------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
NOTE.--According to the published Diary of Private Deane, the Grenadier Guards lost 2 officers killed at Oudenarde, but no detailed list of casualties is forthcoming.
A medal was struck by Queen Anne to commemorate this victory, and in the reign of Queen Victoria the regiments which were present were permitted to add the name "Malplaquet" to the other distinctions won in more recent battles:
1st King's Dragoon Guards. 3rd Dragoon Guards. 5th Dragoon Guards. Carabiniers. 7th Dragoon Guards. Royal Scots Greys. 5th Lancers. Grenadier Guards. Coldstream Guards. Royal Scots. Buffs. King's Liverpool Regiment. Lincolns. East Yorkshire. Bedfords. Royal Irish. Yorkshire Regiment. Royal Scots Fusiliers. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. South Wales Borderers. Cameronians. Hampshire Regiment.
Prior to the Battle of Malplaquet, the Royal Scots, the Buffs, and the Hampshires had been actively employed at the siege and capture of the Fortress of Tournay, in which they suffered heavily; but no distinction was awarded for this siege, save a medal struck by Queen Anne, the word "Tournay" borne by the West Yorkshire, the Hampshire, and the Shropshire, being granted for the action, which took place in the same neighbourhood in 1794, and which I have dealt with on page 94.