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Lieutenant and Quarter-Master Guy, whom memorialist received as a volunteer 
from the militia, in 1812. 
The Sixty-Second Regiment was always noted since its first formation for good 
discipline, obedience to orders,good conduct in garrison and quarters,and gallantry 
in the field’ when brought in collision with the enemies of its country. What 
grief then must it give the memorialist, who shed his blood at the Battle of the 
‘* Nive,” in not having that honorary word recorded on the colours and appoint- 
ments of his former gallant corps, when he sees the word ‘‘ Nive” emblazoned on 
the colours of the Eighty-Fifth Regiment. . . . In 1813 the late second bat- 
talion, Sixty-Second Regiment, were inspected at Fermoy—one thousand strong-= 
by Lt.-General Sir John Hope, preparatory to its embarkation for the Peninsula ; 
when that gallant officer was pleased to say it was the prettiest battalion he ever 
inspected. After the disembarkation of the corps in Spain, in many of the 
companies the memorialist is sorry to say that proper attention was not paid to 
the messing or necessaries of the soldiers, At Christmas, 1818, memorialist was 
transferred from the light company to act as pay-sergeant of Captain Katen 
[? Kater’s] company, which he found in a bad state, while at the same time heis 
proud to record that no company in the Peninsula were in a more efficient state 
than the light company, under the gallant Captain H. L. E. Gwynne, and it gives 
memorialist pride to have to record that, notwithstanding those disadvantages, no 
soldiers could behave better than the late second battalion, Sixty-Second Regi- 
ment, did at the Battle of the ‘‘ Nive,” the six days they were engaged with the 
enemies of their country, viz.: ,the 9th, 10th, 11th November, and the 9th, 
10th, and 11th December, 1813. The late second battalion, Sixty-Second 
Regiment suffered severely in the ‘‘ Peninsula,” so much so that tne bones of 
nearly seven hundred gallant young soldiers of that corps lie on the “‘ Pyrenees 
mountains.” 
The facings of the Eighty-Fifth Regiment” were yellow in the ‘‘ Peninsula ; ” 
their facings are now b/ue, as memorialist is informed by the recommendation 
of that gallant officer, Major-General Thornton. Memorialist most respectfully 
begs to remark that the original facings of the Sixty-Second Regiment were blue 
when second battalion of Fourth (or King’s Own) Regiment. 
Memorialist here begs most respectfully to remark that he has always noted 
passing events in his military journal, which he still continues, and that he 
always considered Major-General Thornton as the best commanding officer he 
ever knew, with the exception of Major-General Sir David Ximines, tate of the 
Sixty-Second Regiment. Both these gallant officers were strict disciplinarians, 
but at the same time the firm friends of the soldier, the soldier’s wife, and the 
soldier’s orphan. 
Memorialist is sure that his Colonel, General Sir F. A. Weatherall (who has 
nobly served his country sixty: three years, thirty-nine years of which the gallant 
general has been in arms in different parts of the globe, and whose achievements 
are too numerous for humble pen of memorialist to record). He therefore hopes 
that the general will deem it a sufficient excuse for troubling him with this 
- document, ‘‘‘That the veterans of the British Army” with “stick” and - 
*‘ crutch ” fight the battles of their regiments over again. 
And in conclusion he most humbly implores the Almighty God, under whom 
princes reign, nations flourish, and armies conquer, may long preserve for many 
