Showing posts with label flags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flags. Show all posts

Friday, 25 December 2009

Dronningens Livregiment Colour



Descrption given in Sapherson is described as speculative, but tallies closely-ish with the plate of this regiment's colour in "TheDanish Army 1675-79" from nothernwars.com, so I've taken that design and given it the different colours and details as per Sapherson

Gardet til Fods Colours

Taken down, research pending

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Lloyd's & Babington's



5th and 6th Colours from Warflag for the Spanish Succession, speculative so they don't get a re-drawing

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Colonel Wynne's Guidon



Source is a post on the League of Augsburg Forum I unfortunately cannot recall the author of
(I'll get back to this)

Speculative; I'm sure the details are correct, but I'm assuming that it's the same for all three of the flags, as the cavalry flags generally go

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Galmoy


Came across this today in my browsing:

http://indigo.ie/~wildgees/galmoy/gal_art2.htm

Interesting to see the very French-styled colour on the right, and the strange one on the left, with an arrangement of the crown and harp device I've never seen before, blue/yellow borders of the St. George's Cross, mysterious cypher in the centre, and the words on it, which would read 'PRO DEO REGE PATRIA ET' the way they're arranged

Raises some issues with the accuracy I suppose, but there you go anwyay

Sunday, 8 November 2009

Military Flags of the World 1618-1900



Downloaded this from http://military-machine.blogspot.com/
Has a few relevant plates

The British ones corroborate with Lawson, although the devices in general are slimmer/smaller, closer to the Reiver Castings flags, which is interesting
Very purplish colour on some is also interesting
Nice to see I got the 12th's Colonel's right

There's one of the Tangier Regiment 1st Captain's I've left off this accidentally, but it's nothing new

Count Schomberg's Standards



aka Count Schonburg's, Count Shamberg's, Count Schoenberg's, &c.

This is Ultra Speculative, as I have no better source than
http://www.warflag.com/flags/wss/wsseng9.shtml

Colonel Langston's Standards



Lawson

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Some Jacobite flags I made up



If anybody wants some flags

Left to right, top to bottom:
ECW Irish flag slogan; ditto; ditto, 'Carolus' changed to 'Jacobus'; Jacobite slogan plus red hand; French-style colour with the IHSV; ditto; cross and crown; Latin slogan I liked the sound of (my strength is from heaven); IHSV flag with swords; IHSVs with random colours

Monday, 26 October 2009

Oxford Blues



Lawson again

Not 100% sure I've got the King's standard right

I think that's what 'Their Majesties crown and cypher' is meant to be

John Lanier's standards



The horrible cypher returns, source is Lawson

Sunday, 25 October 2009

Colonel Villiers' Standard



Nice 'n' easy, from Lawson

Colonel Coy's Standards



Lawson

Brigadier Trelawney's Colour



From Lawson, backed up by the Osprey 'The British Army 1660-1704'

The cypher just looks like a squiggle here, but in my defense it basically is a squiggle

Brigadier Stewart's Colours



Lawson

Colonel Beaumont's Colours



Lawson again

Field colour is my attempt at 'a dark pinkish crimson'

Saturday, 24 October 2009

Colonel Brewer's Colours


Into the realms of speculation a bit

Descrption is from, as usual, Lawson, but there's no mention of the colours of any of the details on the Colonel's, so I'm going on educated (or more likely not) guesses here

Also, in the Lawson there's also a drawing of two colours of the regiment captured by the French in 1693, which have as the device a crown with an arm holding an axe coming out of the top (my excellent knowledge of heraldic terms shining through here) and this is described as Brewer's coat of arms.

I assumed that those colours, explicitly labelled as Brewer's, were the ones I was after, and that the ones above, labelled Duke of Norfolk's Regiment 1688, were for when the regiment was the Duke of Norfolk's (surprisingly). However, the regiment became Brewer's in 1686 according to Richard Trimen, and so if that's the case it means that 'Norfolk's' colours were being used by Brewer in 1688, but not by 1693. Therefore, with no more information to go on, I'm giving the regiment the 1688 colours, for the rather specious reasons that there's more information on them, and 1688 is only 2 years off compared to 3.

This is why I will never be a proper historian

Gardes te Voet

This old chestnut, the subejct of some prior discussion on the Wars of Louis Quatorze blog

Going with the clothing book description (quoted, as ever, in the Lawson) which leaves the crown off (the crown apears in the Osprey)

Colonel Hastings' Colours

From our friend Lawson again

Lieutenant-General Douglas' Colour


From Lawson again

Not sure where the numeral on the 1st Captain's is meant to go, but precedent has it above the cross rather than on it