The Flags of Our Fighting Army: Including standards, guidons, colours and drum bannersJohnson, Stanley C. (Stanley Currie)
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The Flags of Our Fighting Army: Including standards, guidons, colours and drum banners
Johnson, Stanley C. (Stanley Currie)
Flags -- Great Britain
=3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards.=—The Dragoon Guard type of
standard is followed in this case. The central badge is the Plume of
the Prince of Wales. The first and fourth corners reveal the White
Horse, as above; the second corner contains a small picture of the
Rising Sun, and the third, a small Red Dragon. (All these three
devices are the appropriation of the Prince of Wales.) The battle
honours are: Blenheim; Ramillies; Oudenarde; Malplaquet; Warburg;
Beaumont; Willems; Talavera; Albuhera; Vittoria; Peninsula;
Abyssinia; South Africa, 1901-02. (Fig. 11.)
=4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards.=—The Dragoon Guard type of
standard is again followed. The central badge contains the Harp and
Crown, and the Star of the Order of St. Patrick; the second and
third corners are filled with the initials IV. D.G. on a blue
ground, and the battle honours are: Peninsula; Balaklava;
Sevastopol; Egypt, 1882; Tel-el-Kebir. The motto, “Quis separabit,”
is inscribed below the union wreath.
=5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards.=—This standard
follows the type for the Dragoon Guards. The central badge is merely
the regimental designation, V. D.G. The four corners contain the
White Horse and the Rose, Thistle and Shamrock on one stalk. The
battle honours are: Blenheim; Ramillies; Oudenarde; Malplaquet;
Beaumont; Salamanca; Vittoria; Toulouse; Peninsula; Balaklava;
Sevastopol; South Africa, 1899-1902; Defence of Ladysmith. The motto
of John Hampden, “Vestigia nulla retrorsum” (No going backwards),
appears below the union wreath.
=6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers).=—This standard follows the type
for the Dragoon Guards. The central badge is VI. D.G. The second and
third corners have white labels also bearing the inscription VI.
D.G. The battle honours are: Blenheim; Ramillies; Oudenarde;
Malplaquet; Warburg; Willems; Sevastopol; Delhi, 1857; Afghanistan,
1879-80; South Africa, 1899-1902; Relief of Kimberley; Paardeberg.
=7th (Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards.=—The type as before. In the
centre, the coronet of her late Majesty, the Empress and Queen
Frederick of Germany and Prussia as Princess Royal of Great Britain
and Ireland. As the facings are black, the letters VII. P.R.D.G.
appear on a groundwork of this colour in the second and third
corners. The battle honours are: Blenheim; Ramillies; Oudenarde;
Malplaquet; Dettingen; Warburg; South Africa, 1846-7; Egypt, 1882;
Tel-el-Kebir; South Africa, 1900-02.
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