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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 ...
Ensign and colour sergeant with colours of the 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment. 1813 illustration Following the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and the end of the war, the regiment moved to a posting at St Augustine, Florida , where it remained until 1769. [ 17 ]
In 1803 and 1804 the Board of Ordnance, which was the agency responsible for providing colours to the troops, exchanged correspondence with George Nayler, York Herald, about the delay in issuing colours. It was a result of this that the office of Inspector of Regimental Colours was instituted on 4 June 1806, with Nayler appointed to the post.
The Norfolk Militia was an auxiliary military force in the English county of Norfolk in East Anglia.From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in 1558 until their final service as the Special Reserve, the Militia regiments of the county carried out internal security and home defence duties in all of Britain's major wars.
The Norfolk Regiment: 1935: The Royal Norfolk Regiment [13] 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot (2 battalions) 1st or West Norfolk Militia 2nd or East Norfolk Militia. 1st Norfolk (City of Norwich) RVC 2nd Norfolk RVC 3rd Norfolk RVC 4th Norfolk RVC Norfolk: White, changed to yellow in 1905 The Lincolnshire Regiment 1946:The Royal Lincolnshire ...
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.
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.