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
13th Company.—A red and white rose impaled with a golden pomegranate
bearing green leaves. This device was brought from Spain by
Katherine of Arragon.
14th Company.—A white horse, galloping, on a green mount.
15th Company.—The crown of Charlemange, in gold.
16th Company.—The same badge as given for the 28th Company of
Grenadier Guards.
=The Scots Guards= have three flags, known as the Colonel’s, the
Lieutenant-Colonel’s, and the Major’s colours, the first two of which
are used as the King’s colour in the first and second battalions.
The Colonel’s or King’s first battalion colour (Fig. 21) consists of a
crimson silk banner, bearing an imperial crown surmounting the Royal
Arms of Scotland. Under these are placed the motto, “En! Ferus Hostis”
(Lo! A savage foe), and the Sphinx of Egypt. On either side is a column
of seven tablets, in gold, each bearing the name of one of the following
battle distinctions: Namur, 1695; Dettingen; Lincelles; Talavera;
Barrosa; Fuentes d’Onor; Nive; Peninsula; Waterloo; Alma; Inkerman;
Sevastopol; Egypt, 1882; Tel-el-Kebir; Suakin, 1885; South Africa,
1899-1902; Modder River.
The Lieutenant-Colonel’s or the King’s colour of the second battalion
consists of a crimson silk banner bearing in the dexter canton a small
Union Jack, whilst in the centre of the crimson field is an imperial
crown, a Tudor rose, a thistle and shamrock, and the Sphinx of Egypt. On
this flag is the motto, “Unita fortior” (By union stronger). Battle
honours also appear.
The Major’s colour, which does not serve as that of the King’s colour,
as there is no third battalion, bears the star of the Order of the
Thistle, with a small Union Jack, from which issues a pile-wavy. There
is also the Egyptian Sphinx, and a motto, “Nemo me impune lacessit” (No
one provokes me with impunity).
The regimental colours of the Scots Guards consist of a full-size Union
flag, emblazoned with a crown and Sphinx, and bear the badges of the
companies, on lines similar to those laid down in connection with the
two former regiments of Guards. The first twelve badges are as follows:—
1st Company.—A red lion standing on an imperial crown, all on a
silver shield. The motto is “In defence.”
2nd Company.—A hand grenade with a lighted fuse and the motto
“Terrorem affero” (I carry terror with me).
3rd Company.—The red rampant lion of Scotland. Motto, “Intrepidus”
(Undaunted).
4th Company.—The cross with a representation of St. Andrew, upon a
star of silver, all under a thistle. Motto, “Nemo me impune
lacessit.”
5th Company.—A red lion, passant and full-faced, on a gold shield.
Motto, “Timere nescius” (I do not know fear).
6th Company.—A blue griffin, on a gold shield, the badge of Edward
III. Motto, “Belloque ferox” (And ferocious in war).
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