Celer Et Audax

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The history of the 60th regiment covers a period of one hundred and twenty years. It is seventy years, a long life, since the battle of 'Talavera' was fought; but there are fifty years before that - viz. from 1757 to 1809 - during all of which the first four battalions of the 60th were at work making history, but no one has attempted to write it.

It was not until Captain Wallace of the 1st battalion 60th Rifles set to work, that even the statistics of the corps, (dull to many readers but most valuable in themselves) were, with great labour by him, collected and published under the title of 'A Regimental Chronicle.'

At the end of his preface Captain Wallace 'earnestly asked all who were interested in the subject to help him ... to make as complete as possible the volume which he hopes to publish at some future time, containing the historical records of the 60th King's Royal Rifles.'

Being one of those who take great 'interest in the subject,' and feeling that he alone, who had gleaned the matter for the history of the earlier battalions.