The Colours of the Grenadier GuardsDay and Son, 1869 - 62 pagina's |
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1st battalion 1st Guards 2nd battalion Albuhera Alma argent arms army Badajoz badge of King Balaklava banner Barossa BARROSA battle borne brigade British Busaco canton the number centre the royal Chillianwallah Ciudad Rodrigo Colour of Colour company inscribed Corunna County Title cross of St Devices and Distinctions dexter canton Dragon Duke Edward the Third Egmont-op-Zee embarked ensigned escrolls Flanders Foot Guards fourth corners France Fuentes d'Onor Garter Goojerat Grenadier Guards gules honour House of Stuart Houses of York imperial crown Inkerman inscribed in Roman Ireland King Henry Light Infantry Lincelles Nive Nivelle Orthes Penin Peninsula Prince of Wales Punjaub Pyrenees QUEEN'S COLOUR Red Blue Red Buff Red Green Red White Red Yellow Regiment of Guards Regimental Badge Roleia rose royal badge Royal Cypher Russian Salamanca saltire Scarlet Blue Scotland Sevastopol siege Sobraon Sphinx standard or guidon sula superscribed Talavera Thistle Toulouse Union Jack Union throughout Vimiera Vittoria Waterloo
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Pagina 17 - ReGENT, as a mark of HIs Royal Approbation of the distinguished gallantry of the Brigade of Foot Guards in the Victory of Waterloo, has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty...
Pagina 17 - Guards," in commemoration of their having defeated the Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guards upon this memorable occasion.
Pagina 26 - VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., &c., &c., To All and Singular to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting! Whereas...
Pagina 23 - Battery, brought them safe to where their ammunition was to be obtained, thereby saving some fifty men, and enabling them to renew the combat. He received the approval of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge for this action on the spot. Colonel Percy was engaged with, and put hors de combat, a Russian soldier.
Pagina 8 - Colour is to be the Red Cross of St. George in a White Field, and the Union in the upper Canton.
Pagina 8 - Colour, to be the Colour of the Facing of the Regiment with the Union in the upper Canton...
Pagina 5 - The flag of the guidon to be three feet ^ five inches to the end of the slit of the swallow-tail, and two feet three inches on the lance. The upper and lower corners to be rounded off at twelve inches' distance from the end of the flag.
Pagina 5 - Each regiment will have a silken standard, and each company a silken guidon. The standard to bear the arms of the United States, embroidered in silk, on a blue ground, with the number and name of the regiment, in a scroll underneath the eagle. The flag of the standard to be two feet five inches wide, and two feet three inches on the lance, and to be edged with yellow silk fringe.
Pagina 2 - Bonnet : and that the Union Flag shall be Azure, the Crosses Saltire of St. Andrew and St. Patrick Quarterly, per Saltire counterchanged Argent and Gules : the latter fimbriated of the second, surmounted by the Cross of St. George of the third, fimbriated as the Saltire.