"60th Royal American Grenadiers" Topic

I am in the process of converting some of my British troops, which were previously painted as the 1st Royal Regiment, to the 60th Royal Americans. I am already finished with the regular line troops, but am left with the Grenadiers. Did the 60th have a grenadier company? How were they clothed? i found one image on line that shows a grenadier soldier with lace. Is that correct? As it seems that the regular troops had no lace at all…

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Thanks for your help

Gert

Just found this earlier thread:

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Guess that answers my question – they had a grenadier company.

I think I will keep the lace.

Gert

The lace shown is for a grenadier OFFICER.
I have my doubts, even for an officer.

That idealised illustration is from the 1920s or 1930s, IRRC, and the reliability of the site in the link is, to be polite, questionable.

The question of the lace aside, to depict an officer of the 60th in thigh-length white spatterdashes and a powdered periwig is fanciful, to say the least.

He's a good looking chap, though. Is that liptick that he's wearing?

The 60th had four companies of grens, one for each battalion.

They did not wear lace

They wore clothe mitre caps, or cocked hats.

They likely wore black gaiters (maybe leather tops) till about 1759 when they, like much of the British Army in North American, went into wool leggins. Blue would be your best bet, though I think green was worn for some.

No lace for officers either during the F&I time period.

Here is a painting of their Colonel Commandant, Sir Jeffrey Amherst in his 60th uniform:

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Let me know if you have any other specific questions.

Oh, and in 1759 the 60th stood up Light companies as well.

Thank you for the responses. I paint all of my British troops with black or brown leggings for this time period. There is definitely no time for being dapper when at war in the Americas!

I already have grenadier troops in mitres, so I will stay with that. I am going to strip the lace. I probably should also file down the shoulder wings, unless anyone can tell me different. That just seems out of place.

Keep the shoulder wings for grens and lights.

Brown gaiters, to my knowledge, were only used on Braddock's campaign. The standard campaign field gaiter was black, sometimes with leather tops. Apparently this was replaced by the armies here starting in 1759.

Note the soldiers gaiters and cowhide knapsack:

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Here is a 60th Light infantryman in the background behind Johnson – though note the lack of wings here. Some had them, some didn't. Note he carries the light infantry carbine.

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