Regimental Colours Programme

THE
ONLY CORRECT PROGRAMME.

Regimental Colours
OF THE

Imperial Troops

ORDER OF PROCESSION.

UNIFORMS OF EACH REGIMENT.

Colonel Crole Wyndham, C. B. (21st Lancers)
Commanding Officer’s Trumpeter
Staff: Captain Evelyn Wood (Scottish Rifles)
Lieutenant and Quartermaster Collins (King’s Dragoon Guards)
Regimental Sergeant-Major Laughton (21st Lancers)

CAVALRY.
1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards
Scarlet tunic, blue facings, cuirass and helmet, white metal silver gaiter, star in front, and white plume
King’s Dragoon Guards – Second Lieutenant W.T. V. W. Wood – 24 men
Scarlet tunic, blue facings, red plume
Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) – Capitain G. C. Wilson
Blue tunic, scarlet facings, cuirass and helmet like Life Guards, the latter with a red plume
7th (Queen’s Own) Hussars — Lieutenant Viscount Cole – 22 men
Blue, scarlet facings, busby with white plume
21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers – Lieutenant R. H. Dick-Cunyngham – 20 men
Blue uniform, grey facings, white plume
Prince of Wales’ Own Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry – Major Fitz R. P. Goddard, Second Lieutenant W. F. Fuller – 26 men
Blue, facings white, busby bag and plume scarlet

ARTILLERY AND ENGINEERS.
Royal Horse Artillery – Major J. B. H. Askwith, Lieutenant Dixon – trumpeter and 56 men
Blue, scarlet facings, white plume

Royal Field Artillery – Second Lieutenant G. A. H. Hill – 56 men
Blue uniform, scarlet facings
Royal Garrison Artillery – Second Lieutenant W. D. Warrington-Morris – 43 men
Royal Engineers – Captain Powell, Second Lieutenant T. H. L. Speight – 54 men
Scarlet uniform, blue facings, gold lace

FOOT GUARDS GROUP.
Grenadier Guards – Captain G. C. W. Heneage – 23 men
Scarlet; with blue facings, bearskin cap
Scots Guards – Second Lieutenant Lord Falconer – 23 men
Badge, sphinx and thistle, uniform scarlet, blue facings
Irish Guards – Second Lieutenant R. C. A. McCalmont – 23 men
Scarlet, green facings, badge, shamrock, plume, St. Patrick’s blue
Coldstream Guards – Lieutenant B. T. Hon d’H. Hamilton – 23 men
Scarlet, blue facings, badge, star and garter
Band of the Highland Light Infantry

LINE GROUP,
2nd (Queen’s) – Lieutenant B. T. Churcher – 23 men
Scarlet, blue facings
3rd (Buffs) 13th – Lieutenant M. S. Williams – 23 men
Scarlet, with facings
Somersetshire Light Infantry – Lieutenant C. E. Chicester – 23 men
Scarlet, blue facings
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry – Lieutenant A. P. Williams-Freeman – 21 men
Scarlet, blue facings

FUSILIERS GROUP.
5th [Northumberland] Fusiliers – Major J. F. Riddell — 23 men

Scarlet, “gosling” green facings, red and white feather in cap
7th [Royal] Fusiliers – Second Lieutenant A. C. S. Chichester – 23 men
Scarlet, blue facings.
23rd [Royal Welsh] Fusiliers – Second Lieutenant A. R. H. Rycroft – 20 men
Scarlet, blue facings
87th [Royal Irish] Fusiliers – Lieutenant M. B. C. Carbery – 22 men
Scarlet, blue facings

RIFLES GROUP.
26th Scottish Rifles – Captain R. Oakley – 23 men
Green, dark green facings, Cameron tartan, and appointments
King’s Royal Rifles – Captain J. H. G. Fielden – 23 men
Green, scarlet facings
Royal Irish Rifles – Second Lieutenant C. M. L. Becher 23 men
Green, dark green facings
Rifle Brigade – Lieutenant R. P. H. Bernard – 23 men
Green, black facings, Astrachan headdress

HIGHLANDERS GROUP.
42nd [Black Watch] Royal Highlanders – Lieutenant Green – 24 men
Scarlet, blue facings, diced red, white, and blue band round the bonnet, with red hackles, regimental tartan, Highlander’s appointments
Seaforth Highlanders – Captain E. A. Cowans – 24 men
Scarlet, blue facings, Highland bonnet, tartan, and regimental appointments
Cameron Highlanders – Second Lieutenant J. M. Dougall – 24 men
Scarlet, blue facings, tartan of the Camerons, Highland bonnet and appointments
The Highland Light Infantry – Captain S. W. Scrase-Dickins – 24 men

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  • J B H Askwith
  • M L Becher
  • R P H Bernard
  • M B C Carbery
  • A C S Chichester
  • C E Chichester
  • B T Churcher
  • Viscount Cole
  • Lieutenant and Quartermaster Collins
  • E A Cowans
  • R H Dick-Cunyngham
  • J M Dougall
  • Lord Falconer
  • J H G Fielden
  • W F Fuller
  • H Hamilton
  • G C W Heneage
  • G A H Hill
  • Sergeant-Major Laughton
  • R C A McCalmont
  • R Oakley
  • J F Riddell
  • A R H Rycroft
  • S W Scrase-Dickins
  • T H L Speight
  • W D Warrington-Morris
  • M S Williams
  • A P Williams-Freeman
  • G Wilson
  • Evelyn Wood
  • W T V W Wood
  • Crole Wyndham

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