Welch Regiment of Fusiliers – Ingoldsby Regiment
Actions on the day at Blenheim
The Welch Regiment of Fusiliers were part of the first line of Cutt’s column that was ordered to take the village of Blenheim. It’s probably more accurate to say that Marlborough ordered them to keep the troops around Blenheim occupied so that they could not interfere with his push in the center when he was ready to make the decisive blow against Tallard.
They were in Brigadier General Archibald Rowe brigade along with the units of Rowe, Marlborough, Howe and North & Grey.
The Welch Regiment of Fusiliers actually earned their title as the Royal Welch Fusiliers because of they actions during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Uniform Details
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The uniform details for this regiment gave me quite a headache and in the end I have gone with a personal guess!
Here’s my research. It appears that they originally had blue coats with white facings. This is how Grant lists them in his wonderful book “The Armies and Uniforms of Marlborough’s Wars Vol 1″. This uniform is confirmed for their battles in 1694 under Richard Ingoldsby at Namur when the unit was known as Herberts regiment of foot. However I also read that in 1702 they were renamed to the Welch Fusiliers and apparently issued with red coats. So clearly I feel for Blenheim I should give them red coats. Unfortunately I have yet to find any detailed descriptions of their uniforms so I do not know what colour the facings were. I have decided to show them blue as maybe that would be what they would have been given considering their earlier coats were mainly blue. So, red coat with blue linings it is. If anyone knows any further uniform details it would be great if you could post a comment below. Thanks. |
