BJ37-015N "Push Your Bayonets."

The British army at this time consisted of 69 red coated regular infantry regiments. Each was organized as a single battalion, which comprised of ten companies, which included one company of grenadiers. Each company had an ideal strength of 70 rank and file, so a battalion had 700 men. As was often the case maintaining companies at full strength espaecially at war time was difficult. At Culloden the strongest infantry battalion was in fact Dejean’s Regiment, which mustered 426 men. Blakeney’s 27th had just 300. Only the grenadier company in each regiment was maintained at something like its proper strength, by constantly milking the other battalion companies of their most experienced soldiers. The 37th regiment was raised in Ireland by Lieutenant-General Thomas Meredyth as Meredyth's Regiment in February 1702. The regiment next saw action at the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession. It also fought at the Battle of Falkirk in January 1746 during the Jacobite Rebellion when its Colonel, Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, was shot and then finished off with three sword blows to the head. It went on to fight under the command of Colonel Lewis Dejean at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. The regiment returned to the Netherlands and fought at the Battle of Lauffeld in July 1747. On 1st July 1751 a royal warrant was issued which provided that in future regiments would no longer be known by their colonel’s name, but would bear a regimental number based on their precedence. Dejean’s Regiment became the 37th Regiment of Foot.

Scale 1/30.