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
=34.= Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own [Yorkshire Regiment] (4th
Battalion).
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=35.= The Northumberland Fusiliers (5th Battalion).
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=36.= The London Regiment (7th [City of London] Battalion).
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=37.= The Suffolk Regiment (4th Battalion).
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=38.= The King’s [Shropshire Light Infantry] (4th Battalion).
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=39.= Honourable Artillery Company, Infantry.
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=40.= The London Regiment, (Blackheath and Woolwich, 20th [County of
London] Battalion).
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PLATE 5. REGIMENTAL COLOURS OF THE TERRITORIAL FORCE
=The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment).=—Facings, blue.
R.C.—The motto, “Quo fas et gloria ducunt” (Where duty and glory lead).
The Sphinx, superscribed “Egypt,” below the union wreath.
The battle honours are: Vimiera; Corunna; Almaraz; Vittoria;
Pyrenees; Nive; Orthes; Peninsula; Punniar; Moodkee; Ferozeshah;
Aliwal; Sobraon; Alma; Inkerman; Sevastopol; Lucknow; New Zealand;
Egypt, 1882; Nile, 1884–85; South Africa, 1900–02.
Before 1881, the facings of the regiment were black, but when, in this
year, the force attained a royal dignity, they became blue. New colours
to suit the change of hue were accordingly provided, and the old ones
burned with solemn reverence, the ashes being collected and placed in a
snuff box made from the wood of the flag pole.
A brave array of the retired colours of this regiment are to be seen in
All Saints’ Church, Maidstone.
=The King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry).=—Facings, blue.
R.C.—The White Rose of the House of York. The motto, “Cede nullis”
(Yield to nothing).
The battle honours are: Minden; Corunna; Fuentes d’Onor; Salamanca;
Vittoria; Pyrenees; Nivelle; Orthes; Peninsula; Waterloo; Pegu; Ali
Masjid; Afghanistan, 1878–80; Burma, 1885–87; South Africa,
1899–1902; Modder River.
=The King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry).=—Facings, blue.
R.C.—The united Red and White Rose, also the motto, “Aucto splendore
resurgo” (I arise with added splendour).
The battle honours are: Nieuport; Toumay; St. Lucia, 1796; Talavera;
Fuentes d’Onor; Salamanca; Vittoria; Pyrenees; Nivelle; Nive;
Toulouse; Peninsula; Bladensburg; Aliwal; Sobraon; Punjaub;
Goojerat; Lucknow; Afghanistan, 1879–80; Egypt, 1882; Suakin, 1885;
South Africa, 1899–1902; Paardeberg.
The colours of the 4th battalion are shown in Fig. 38.
=The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment).=—Facings, lemon
yellow.
R.C.—The Plume of the Prince of Wales, derived from the 2nd battalion,
which was formerly the old 77th East Middlesex. In each of the four
corners, the late Duke of Cambridge’s cypher and coronet, as figured on
the colours of the old 57th West Middlesex.
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