British Contingent to Germany

The following lists show the gradual buildup of British forces to the Allied army in Germany. Information comes from Savory, His Britannic Majesty’s Army in Germany.

First British Contingent, disembarked at Emden on 3 August 1758.

Commander in Chief: Lieut.-General the Duke of Marlborough*

Lieut.-Generals: Lord George Sackeville, the Marguis of Granby

Major-Generals: Mostyn, Waldegrave.

Colonels (later Major-Generals) Kingsly, Elliot

Regiment

Royal Horse Guards, the Blues

1^st King’s Dragoon Guards

3^rd Dragoon Guards

6^th Inniskilling Dragoons

10^th Dragoons

2^nd Royal North Dragoons, the Greys

12^th Foot (Napier’s)

20^th Foot (Kingsley’s)

Royal Welsh Fusiliers (23^rd Foot, Huske’s)

25^th Foot (Home’s)

51^st Foot (Brudenell’s)

Note:

The grenadier companies of each battalion formed a battalion under Maxwell.

* This is Charles Spencer, the 3rd Duke of Marlborough pictured here.

Lieut.-Generals: Lord George Sackeville, the Marguis of Granby

Colonel (later Major-General) Elliot

Second British Contingent, disembarked at Bremen during May and June of 1760.

Regiment

Royal Dragoons (Conway’s)

5^th Dragoon Guards (Mostyn’s)

7^th Dragoons (Cope’s)

2^nd Dragoon Guards (Waldegrave’s)

5^th Foot (Hodgon’s)

11^th Foot (Dockland’s)

33^rd Foot (Griffin’s)

8^th Foot (Barrington’s)

24^th Foot (Conrwallis’s)

50^th Foot (Carr’s)

Note:

The grenadier companies of the above listed battalions formed into a battalion under the command of Daulhatt, later Lennox and after him Walsh.

Later, July of 1760

Carabineers

88^th Highlanders (Campbell’s)

15^th Light Dragoons (Elliot’s)

7^th Dragoon Guards (Honywood’s)

2^nd Bn. Foot Guards

2^nd Bn. Coldstream Guards

2^nd Bn. Third Guards

Grenadiers of the Guards

Note: The 87^th Highlanders (Keith's) arrived on the continent on 14 November 1759 and had seen action before the arrival of the second contingent. Both Highland battalions were grouped with the converged grenadier battalions of Maxwell and Lennox.  

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