EIGHTY-EIGHTH FOOT.
The Regiment was raised in Connaught from which province it took its Title.
It bears “The Harp and Crown” with the motto “Quis separabit?”; also “The Sphinx” for Egypt, 1801.
It was nicknamed during the Peninsula War “The Devil’s Own Connaught Boys” from its gallantry in action and irregularity in quarters.
The first Regiment numbered the 88th was the 88th Highland Volunteers raised in 1759. It served at Warbourg 1760, Campen 1760, and Wilhelmsthal 1762, and was disbanded in 1763.
The second was raised in 1780, and disbanded in 1783.