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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 ...
This is a list of British colours lost in battle. Since reforms in 1747 each infantry regiment carried two colours, or flags, to identify it on the battlefield: a king's colour of the union flag and a regimental colour of the same colour as the regiment's facings. The colours were regarded as talismans of the regiment and it was considered a ...
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]
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 ...
9th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot 1782–1881 [33] 1685 Raised 19 June 1685, as Henry Cornewall's Regiment of Foot. [33] 1881: The Norfolk Regiment: Royal Anglian Regiment: 10: 10th Regiment of Foot 1751–1782. 10th (North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1881 [34] 1685
The Kings's colour of Barrell’s Regiment of Foot that was carried at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. National Museum of Scotland, accession number M.1931.299.2 [1]. Prior to 1743, each infantry regiment of the British Army was responsible for the design and quantity of standards carried, often with each company having its own design.
The colours vary by regiment and derive either from historic associations with predecessor regiments or from the colours of the regiment's oldest known uniform. Guards: The Royal Norwegian Guards regiment has a regimental colour that is all white, again with the lion in the centre, and with the royal cypher of the reigning monarch in each corner.
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 ]