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Colours
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The Queen's Company Colour |
The Full Title is 'The Queen's Company Colour, the Royal
Standard of the Regiment'. |
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The
Colour will be carried only when the Regiment is employed
on Ceremonial duties when Her Majesty The Queen is present,
and on no other occasion. |
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If
on such occasions the 1st Battalion is detailed to find
a Guard of Honour, the Queen's Company will furnish the
Guard and will carry the Colour. |
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If
the Regiment is not detailed to furnish the Guard of Honour,
and the Queen's Company is not present, the Colour will
not be carried. |
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The
Colour will be lowered only to Her Majesty The Queen,
HRH The Colonel and Her Majesty The Queen Mother. |
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By
an order from Buckingham Palace, dated 26th October 1937,
the Colour is to be lowered on every occasion when The
Queen is present, even if the Guard is mounted in honour
of some other personage.
When not carried by a Guard of Honour. |
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When
a Guard of Honour is furnished by the Queen's Guard, the
Queen's Company Colour will not be carried. The original
orders dated 27th October 1902, signed by His Majesty
King Edward VII, are preserved at Regimental Headquarters. |
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| Battalion
Colours |
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Battalion has two Colours, the Queen's Colour and the
Regimental Colour: |
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The
Queen's Colours. These Colours (with the exception
of the fourth Battalion), are made of Crimson Silk. Each
of the Battalion's Colours differ as follows: |
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First
Battalion. Gules, in the centre the Imperial Crown below
this a grenade. The Regiment's Battle Honours are also
inscribed. |
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Second
Battalion. Gules, in the centre the Royal Cypher proper
and reversed interlaced or, ensigned with the Imperial
Crown: in the dexter canton the Union Flag of the United
Kingdom. A grenade and the Regiment's Battle Honours are
also inscribed |
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Third
Battalion. Gules, in the centre the Royal Cypher proper
and reversed interlaced or, ensigned with the Imperial
Crown: in the dexter canton the Union and issuing there
from in hand dexter a pile wavy of the second. A grenade
and the Regiment's Battle Honours are also inscribed. |
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Fourth
Battalion. The Battalion's Colour was presented in 1919.
In its original form this Colour was a plain Union Flag.
This colour is worthy of special note because: |
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(1)
It is unusual within the Household Division for a Union
Flag to be issued as a King's Colour which is contrary
to normal practice. |
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It had no companion colour. |
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(3)
It is rare for an additional Battalion, raised in War,
to be presented with a Colour. |
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(4) The Colour is now laid up in the Chapel of the Army
Training Regiment, Pirbright. |
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Regimental
Colours. The Regimental Colours are a Union with
a company badge in the centre, surrounded by the Imperial
Crown and with below the Company numeral and the grenade
fired proper, with the battle honours inscribed and the
number of the Battalion in Roman Numerals in the dexter
canton. An arrangement that the Company Colours should
be borne in rotation on Regimental Colours, was confirmed
by a Regimental Order in 1855. |
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Colours
of the 1st Battalion
(Queen's Colour - Left, Regimental Colour - Right) |
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| Company
Badges |
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the Company
Badges page. |
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The
Grenadier Guards Association is Registered Under the Charities Act,
1960 No.287265
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