Dates Of Service

Pre Period 1685 to 1804

1685 Raised by King James II in order to fight the Duke of Monmouth. Saw no action.

1689 to 1691 Ireland - Battle of the Boyne and Aughrim

1691 to 1703 Brest and Flanders

1704 to 1707 The war of the Spanish Sucession

1708 to 1762 Home Service Belle Isle, Minorca and Gibraltar

1762 to 1776 Havana, Martinque, Florida and home service. First Battle Honour

1776 to 1777 American War of Independence Surrendered with Burgoyne at Saratoga

1777 to 1788 Canada and Home Service

1788 to 1796 The West Indies

1797 to 1804 North Holland and Bremen

Our Period

1804 to 1808 The 1st Peninsula Campaign. Portugal - Rolica and Vimeiro. Sir John Cameron commands.

17 August 1808 Rolica 1st Brigade - Rowland Hill, 1/5, 1/38.

16 January 1809 Corunna Last regiment to leave, Spanish soil, buried Sir John Moore. Frazer’s 3rd Division - Beresford’s Brigade - 1/6, 2/23, 2/43

1809 Walcheren Saw very little action. Returned to Canterbury where over 400 men of the 1st Battalion died from the Walchern fever (a form of malaria) which also left many men disabled for life.

1809 The 2nd Peninsula Campaign ~The Retreat to Torres Vedras.

12 May 1809 The Douro 2/9th as part of 7th Brigade (Cameron) in Rowland Hill’s Division with 2/82, 1 coy 5/60, 2/10.

27th & 28th July 1809 Talavera 2/9th in 4th Division - Campbell. In Kemmis’s Brigade with 1/40, 1 coy 5/60

27th September 1810 Busaco 1/9 in 5th Division with James Leith, Barenes’s Brigade with 3/1, & 2/38

1811 to 1814 The 3rd Peninsula Campaign ~the Breakout.

5th March 1811 Barrosa 1/9 (2 Coys) in Browne’s Flank Battalion with 1/28 & 2/82.

3rd to 5th May 1811 Fuentes de Onoro 1/9 in Erskine’s 5 Div as part of Hay’s brigade with 3/1 & 2/38.

16 March to 6 April 1812 The Seige and Storming of Badajoz1/9 with Leith’s 5th Division and in Hay’s brigade with 3/1, & 2/38

22nd July 1812 Salamanca 1/9 again with Leith’s 5th division but this time in Grenville’s brigade with 3/1, 1/38,and 2/38.

21st June 1813 Vittoria 1/9 with the 5th, but this time under the command of John Oswald, Hay is back as brigade commander - with 3/1 and 1/38.

10th November 1813 Nivelle 1/9 in Greville’s brigade part of Hay’s (promotion?) 5th Division with 3/1, and 1/38.

9th to 13th December 1813 Nive 1/9 in Greville’s brigade in the 5th Division, no commander given. With 3/1 and 1/38. At the end of the Peninsula War the IX Regiment is outside Bayonne and does not fight at Toulouse.

Sail for Canada and the War of 1812 against the Americans.

1815 Recalled from Canada before seeing any action. Napoleon invades Belgium while the Regiment sails back, landing at Ostend on 6 July 1815. Marches directly to Paris to join Wellington's Army of occupation, camps in the Bois de Boulogne for a short while but is then withdrawn to the area of the British Headquarters around Cambrai. Returns to the UK in 1818.