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An ensign of the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot with regimental colour, attended by a colour sergeant armed with a spontoon, 1813. The colours, flags, of a British Army infantry regiment serve to identify the unit and mark a rallying point for its troops.
When the East Norfolk regiment was resuscitated the field officers (Col Berkeley Wodehouse, Lt-Col William Mason and Maj Sir Edmund Lacon, 3rd Baronet) and the adjutant continued in their posts, but a number of former Regular Army officers were appointed as company commanders, along with a roster of new junior officers. The East Norfolk Militia ...
On 31 August 1782, the regiment was linked with Norfolk as part of attempts to improve recruitment to the army as a whole and it became the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot. [1] In January 1788, the regiment embarked for the West Indies and took part in the capture of the island of Tobago and in the attack on Martinique . [ 21 ]
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 1 + 2 battalions [14] The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Mercian Regiment - 1 ...
The Norfolk Trained Bands were a part-time military force in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Norfolk Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example during the Rising of the North in 1569 and the Armada Crisis of 1588.
The Inspector of Regimental Colours is an officer of arms responsible for the design of standards, colours and badges of the British Army and of those Commonwealth states where the College of Arms has heraldic jurisdiction. [1] The office was created in 1806, and is currently held by David White, Garter Principal King of Arms. [2]
12th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot 1782–1881 [36] 1685 Raised 20 June 1685 as the Duke of Norfolk's Regiment of Foot. [36] 1881: The Suffolk Regiment: Royal Anglian Regiment: 13: 13th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1822 [37]
8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot; Norfolk Regiment - Royal title in 1935 as part of Silver Jubilee 9th (The East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot; The Lincolnshire Regiment - gained Royal title in 1946 for World War II service 10th (The North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot; Devonshire Regiment. 11th (The North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot; Suffolk ...