Saturday, 24 October 2009

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

Friday, 23 October 2009

A digression

Turns out there's another, better, blog with basically this name

Taking the opportunity to link to it here

http://1690andallthat.blogspot.com/


EDIT: changed the name so this makes no sense now, ah well

Kirke's Colours


Source is Cecil C. P. Lawson's 'A History of the Uniforms of the British Army'

The description of the Major's colour didn't specify if the corner with the pile also had the yellow design, but I thought having them both looked odd so I left the pile on its own

French Colours

Can't find a reference for the Mérode and Famechon regiments

Sources are the Osprey for Zurlauben and the excellent Drapeaux.org for the others

Lord Bellew's colour


Taken from the background of one of the double-page illustrations in the Osprey

Reiver Castings' has a similar colour, but with with darker colours, and a bigger harp and smaller crown

The 'Regimental' has an illegible inscription in gold over the crown and the 'Colonel's' a St. George's cross surrounded by white in the uppermost corner