94th Regiment of Foot

The 94th Regiment of Foot was a British Army line infantry

94th Regiment of Foot
regiment, raised as the Scotch Brigade in October 1794. It was
renumbered as the 94th Regiment of Foot in December 1802 and
disbanded in December 1818. The regiment was reformed in
December 1823 and served until 1881 when it amalgamated with
the 88th Regiment of Foot to form the Connaught Rangers.

Contents
History
Formation
Napoleonic Wars
The Victorian era Badge of the 94th Regiment of Foot
Battle honours Active 1794–1818
Victoria Crosses 1823–1881
Colonels of the Regiment Country Kingdom of
Notes Great Britain
(1794–1800)
References
United
Sources Kingdom (1801–
Further reading 1881)
Branch British Army
Type Line Infantry
History
Role Infantry
Size One battalion
Formation
Garrison/HQ Gough Barracks,
The regiment was raised, from officers who had previously served Armagh
in the Scots Brigade, by General Francis Dundas as the Scotch Engagements Fourth Anglo-
Brigade on 9 October 1794.[1][2] The regiment embarked for Mysore War
[3]
Gibraltar in November 1795 and then moved on to South Africa Second Anglo-
in 1796[3] before transferring to India in late 1798.[3] The regiment Maratha War
landed at Madras in January 1799[3] and saw action at the Battle of Napoleonic Wars
Mallavelly in March 1799[4] and the siege of Seringapatam in Mappila riots
April 1799 during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.[5] It was Anglo-Zulu War
renumbered as the 94th Regiment of Foot in December 1802.[2] Basuto Gun War
It also took part in the Battle of Argaon in November 1803[5] and
First Boer War
the Capture of Gawilghur in December 1803 during the Second
Anglo-Maratha War.[6] At Gawilghur, Captain Campbell led the
light company of the regiment up the assault ladders and over the walls of the fort, which had previously
been considered impregnable, and then let the rest of the British force in through the main gate.[6] The
 regiment embarked for home in October 1807.[7]

Napoleonic Wars

The regiment sailed for Jersey in April 1809 and was then
embarked for Portugal in August 1809 for service in the Peninsular
War.[7] It landed in Lisbon in February 1810 and arrived to take
part in the defence of Fort Matagorda a few days later.[8] Captain
Archibald Maclaine led a detachment of 155 men who held back
Marshal Soult with a force of 8.000 men. Maclaine was knighted
for this exploit and promoted to Major.[9] The regiment then saw
action at the Battle of Sabugal in April 1811,[10] the Battle of
Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811[10] and the siege of Ciudad
Rodrigo in January 1812.[10] After that it fought at the siege of
Badajoz in March 1812,[10] the Battle of Salamanca in July
1812[10] and the siege of Burgos in September 1812[10] as well as
General Francis Dundas, first colonel
the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813.[11] It then pursued the French
of the regiment Army into France and fought at the Battle of Nivelle in November
1813,[12] the Battle of the Nive in December 1813[13] and the
Battle of Orthez in February 1814[14] as well as the Battle of
Toulouse in April 1814.[14] It embarked for Cork in May 1814 and was disbanded in Dublin in December
1818.[15]

The Victorian era

The regiment was reformed in Glasgow (and subsequently

confirmed as the successor of the predecessor formation with full
continuity of battle honours),[a] in response to the threat posed by
the French intervention in Spain, in December 1823.[16] Of the
initial appointments, two of the officers had previous service in the
94th Regiment of Foot (Major Allan and Captain Bogle).[15] The
regiment was posted to Gibraltar in April 1824[17] and it was
presented with its new regimental colours in April 1825[17] before
being sent to Malta in March 1832.[17] It returned to Ireland in
November 1834.[18]

The regiment was posted to Ceylon in October 1838,[18] then

moved to Cannanore in April 1839[18] and served in the Madras
Presidency for fifteen years during which time it saw some action
suppressing the Mappila riots in summer 1849.[19] The regiment
embarked for England in March 1854.[20] Lieutenant General Sir Thomas
Bradford depicted in uniform as
Some volunteers departed for service in the Crimean War in colonel of the regiment circa 1825
November 1854[21] and the service companies left for Gibraltar in
September 1855.[21] The main body of the regiment embarked for
Karachi in November 1857[22] and then transferred to Peshawar in the North-West Frontier region in
October 1858.[22] The regiment embarked for home again in January 1868.[23]
The regiment embarked for South Africa in spring 1879 and saw
action at the Battle of Ulundi in July 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu
War.[10] The regiment marched into the Transvaal and took part in
the successful attack on Sekukuni's stronghold on 28 November
1879 during the Basuto Gun War.[10] Two Victoria Crosses were
awarded to members of the regiment for their conduct during this
action.[24]

The regiment remained in South Africa with its eight companies

widely distributed throughout the Transvaal, garrisons being
established in Pretoria (E and G companies), Lydenburg (A and F
companies), Wakkerstroom (C company), Marabastad (B
company), Standerton (H company) and Newcastle in northern
Natal (D company). It was during the re-concentration of the
companies, in response to outbreaks of civil disorder by the Boers,
that A and F companies were attacked at Battle of
William Plummer Gaskell, an ensign
Bronkhorstspruit in December 1880 in the opening clash of the in the regiment in 1854
First Boer War: the two companies saw 156 of their soldiers killed
or wounded, with the rest taken prisoner.[25] The other six
companies of the regiment spent the war being besieged by the Boers: C, D and H in Standerton, E and G
in Pretoria, B in Marabastad, and a small detachment of 50 men in Lydenburg.[26]

As part of the Cardwell Reforms of the 1870s, where single-battalion regiments were linked together to
share a single depot and recruiting district in the United Kingdom, the 94th was linked with the 89th
(Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot and assigned to district no. 65 at Gough Barracks in Armagh.[27] On
1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect and the regiment amalgamated with the 88th Regiment
of Foot to form the Connaught Rangers.[2]

Battle honours
Battle honours won by the regiment were:[2]

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War : Seringapatam

Peninsular War: Peninsular, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos, Salamanca, Vitorria, Nivelle, Orthes,
Toulouse

Victoria Crosses
Private Francis Fitzpatrick - Basuto War, 28 November 1879
Private Thomas Flawn - Basuto War, 28 November 1879

Colonels of the Regiment

Colonels of the Regiment were:[2]

Scotch Brigade

1794–1809: Gen. Francis Dundas

94th Regiment of Foot

 1809–1815: Gen. Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, GCB, GCH, KC
1815–1818: ?
Regiment disbanded in 1818

94th Regiment of Foot

Regiment reformed in 1823

1823–1829: Gen. Sir Thomas Bradford, GCB, GCH
1829–1831: Lt-Gen. Sir John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, GCB, GCH
1831–1834: Maj-Gen. Sir James Campbell, KCB, KCH
1834–1838: F.M. Sir John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, GCB, GCMG, GCH
1838–1847: Gen. Sir Thomas McMahon, Bt., GCB
1847–1853: Lt-Gen. Sir William Warre, CB
1853–1854: Maj-Gen. William Staveley, CB
1854: Lt-Gen. Henry Thomas, CB
1854–1855: Lt-Gen. Hon. Henry Edward Butler
1855–1866: Gen. George Powell Higginson
1866–1872: Gen. Sir Edward Walter Forestier-Walker, KCB
1872–1879: Gen. Henry Jervis
1879: Gen. Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe, GCVO, CB
1879–1881: Gen. Sir John Thornton Grant, KCB

Notes
a. Confirmation was issued by the War Office in 1875

References
1. Historical record, p. 246
2. "94th Regiment of Foot" (https://web.archive.org/web/20060620071725/http://regiments.org/r
egiments/uk/inf/094-823.htm). regiments.org. Archived from the original (http://regiments.org/
regiments/uk/inf/094-823.htm) on 20 June 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
3. Historical record, p. 248
4. Historical record, p. 249
5. Historical record, p. 251
6. Historical record, p. 252
7. Historical record, p. 253
8. Historical record, p. 254
9. Sinclair, Alexander Maclean (1899). The Clan Gillean (https://archive.org/stream/clangillean
withp00sinc#page/274/mode/2up). Charlottetown: Haszard and Moore. p. 275.
10. "94th Regiment of Foot: Locations" (https://web.archive.org/web/20060616064958/http://regi
ments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/094-1.htm). Regiments.org. Archived from the original (http://regi
ments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/094-1.htm) on 16 June 2006. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
11. Historical record, p. 563
12. Historical record, p. 565
13. Historical record, p. 566
14. Historical record, p. 567
15. Historical record, p. 569
16. Graves, Donald E. "Where Have All the Regiments Gone? The Modern Descendants of the
Regiments of the 1815 British Army: 61st to 104th Foot" (http://www.napoleon-series.org/mili
tary/organization/Britain/Strength/c_modernregiments4.html). Napoleon Series. Retrieved
18 March 2017.
17. Historical record, p. 570
18. Historical record, p. 571
19. Historical record, p. 573
20. Historical record, p. 575
21. Historical record, p. 576
22. Historical record, p. 577
23. Historical record, p. 580
24. "No. 24814" (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24814/page/832). The London
Gazette. 24 February 1880. p. 832.
25. Castle (2005), p. 27
26. Castle, Ian (December 2001), "An Imperial Progress - The 94th Regiment in Zululand", The
Journal of the Anglo Zulu War Historical Society
27. "Training Depots" (https://web.archive.org/web/20060210172841/http://www.regiments.org/r
egiments/uk/depot/1873.htm). Regiments.org. Archived from the original (http://www.regimen
ts.org/regiments/uk/depot/1873.htm) on 10 February 2006. Retrieved 16 October 2016.

Sources
Castle, Ian (2005). Majuba 1881: The Hill of Destiny. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-
0275986414.
"Historical Record of the Services of the Ninety-Fourth Regiment" in Colburn’s United
Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal 1868 Part 3 (https://books.google.com/boo
ks?id=TNgRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA243). Hurst and Blackett. 1868. pp. 243–257.
"Historical Record of the Services of the Ninety-Fourth Regiment" in Colburn’s United
Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal 1868 Part 3 (https://books.google.com/boo
ks?id=TNgRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA562). Hurst and Blackett. 1868. pp. 562–582.

Further reading
Jourdain, Lieutenant-Colonel H.F.N. (1926). The Connaught Rangers - 2nd Battalion,
Formerly 94th Foot (http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/94th_Regiment_of_Foot). London.
Smith, Henry Stooks (1869). Alphabetical list of the officers of the ninety-fourth regiment
"Scotch Brigade" from 1800–1869 (https://archive.org/details/analphabeticall02smitgoog).
Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer.

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