The First Battle Honour Tangier 1660-1684.
Typescript draft of a history by Maj A J Smithers.
Gives an account of the defence of Tangier and of the evacuation in February 1684.
The battle honour, ‘Tangier 1662-1680’, was awarded to: The Tangier Horse, later the 1st Royal Dragoons; Grenadier Guards; Coldstream Guards; Tangier or Governor’s Regiment, later 2nd (Queen’s Royal West Surrey) Regiment; 1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment, Dumbarton’s Regiment.
The 4th (King’s Own) Regiment (Trelawney’s Regiment) were present but not granted the battle honour.