Can anyone help me with the organisation of KGL battalions during the Waterloo campaign? Apparently, at the start of the campaign, they switched from being formed of ten companies of sixty men to being made up of six companies of one hundred men, with the surplus officers and senior NCOs transferring to the Hanoverian landwehr. This suggests that the proportion of men in the flank companies also increased from a fifth of the men in a ten company battalion to one third of the men in a six company battalion. Does anyone know if this is what actually happened in practice? Were men from the centre companies turned into grenadiers and light infantry? And if so were they re-uniformed (given new hackles for their shakos and new wings for their coats)?
Just reading Thomas : No Want of Courage, the British Army in Flanders 1793 - 95, also here a Flank Battalion was formed out of the three Guards battalions.
By the way one of the best books I did ever read - in case it goes on like this it will be among my top 50 books.