took over the island of Ponza and then participated in the capture of the island of Corfu. During its stay in garrison at Malta, the regiment distinguished itself for the management of the terrible plague of that year, being highly praised for it by Governor Thomas Maitland. The following year the Regiment was to be called back to Britain, but Napoleon's escape from Elba prevented it, and the Sicilian Regiment was called on to fight Joachim Murat in Italy. The regiment was finally disbanded on March 24, 1816, as were many other foreign regiments in the British Army, such as the King's German Legion. Uniform In 1810 the Sicilian Regiment wore the scarlet British infantry coat with dark green facings, collar and cuffs, white lace, stovepipe shako with bugle badge (which may later have been replaced by a Tarleton helmet) with a green plume, white breeches and black 3/4 gaiters. Officers' "metal" was gold, with golden buttons with the royal crown and the words "Sicilian Regiment" around it. Colonels John Coape Sherbrooke. appointed February 5, 1807 Ronald C. Ferguson, appointed January 25, 1809 Footnotes References Army List, foreign corps. Ordini permanent per il Reggimento Siciliano di fanteria leggiera, nel servizio di Sua Maesta' Britannica, Malta 1808 (1st ed.) and 1813 (2nd ed.). B. Burnham - R. McGuigan, The British Army Against Napoleon: Facts, Lists and Trivia, 1805-1815, Barnsley 2010. R. Chartrand - P. Courcelle, Emigré and Foreign Troops in British Service (2), 1803-15 (Osprey Military - Men at arms Series n. 335), Oxford 2000, p. 38 and plate D. D. Fosten - B. Marrion, The Sicilian Regiment, Military Modelling, November 1990. A. Pigeard, Le Regiment Sicilien, Tradition Magazine n° 170, September 2001. Darmanin, D., "Malta-based Sicilian Regiment that served His Royal Highness", Times of Malta, 14 November 2015. External links Regiments of the Malta Garrison: Sicilian His Britannic Majesty's Sicilian Regiment (in Italian) Original Undress coat of His Majesty's Sicilian Regiment See also British Army during the Napoleonic Wars The United Kingdom in the Napoleonic Wars Types of military forces in the Napoleonic Wars Military units and formations disestablished in 1816 Regiments of the British Army Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Peninsular War 19th-century military history of the United Kingdom Military history of Sicily British military units and formations of the Napoleonic Wars