![]() ![]() For close combat, the musket mounted a standard Land Pattern socket bayonet with a triangular blade. Several examples marked to the battalion survive in museum and private collections. Although widely issued to specialist Light Infantry units in Europe towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the 7/60th were one of the few regular British Army regiments to utilise the weapon in Canada during the War of 1812. The eight centre companies of the 7/60th were armed with the New Land Pattern Light Infantry musket, which possessed both sights and a scrolled pistol grip to facilitate marksmanship. The ‘stovepipe’ shako bore a brass bugle horn, a green woolen tuft and cords, indicating the battalion’s status as light infantrymen, and further adding to its ‘foreign’ appearance. Accordingly, the 7/60th was reported to be “clothed in green” when inspected in Halifax in June 1814. ![]() Whereas the 5/60th clung determinately to its distinctive blue trousers, the 7/60th received green trousers previously authorised in July 1812. The buttons were pewter, domed, and bore the regiment’s badge consisting of a crowned garter strap with the numeral ‘60’ in the centre. In addition, Charles Hamilton Smith’s artworks suggest the epaulettes bore short red woolen tufts, while a thin red piping was applied to the bottom front edge of the coat. The Pearse notebook (c.1810-1815) indicates the coats of the 5/60th (and thus the 7/60th) were made of rifle green cloth with madder red facings, and decorated with 44 regimental buttons. ![]() Pearse & Co., the clothier that supplied uniforms to the 60th Regiment during the Napoleonic Wars.įrom its formation in August 1813 the 7/60th Regiment was “clothed as the 5th battalion” in a green rifle uniform. Its portrayal is based upon several key contemporary sources, including artifacts, inspection returns, the military artworks of Charles Hamilton Smith, and the tailoring notebook of the firm J.N. ![]() The modern 7/60th Regiment reenactment group depicts the uniform and equipment of the battalion as it appeared in late 1814. ![]()
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