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1st Battalion Scots Guards


King's Colour	Officer's Cap Badge

The Badge of the Scots Guards is the Star of the Order of the Thistle, and this is used as a Cap Badge by all ranks. The motto of the regiment if "Nemo me impune lacessit" (No-one touches me with impunity). The King's Colours of the two Battalions are quite different (see 2nd Battalion Scots Guards), although the same Honours are borne on all the colours of the regiment. Known formerly as the "Third Regiment of Foot Guards", the buttons on the Scots Guards coats are placed in sets of three.

2nd Battalion Scots Guards


King's Colour	Cap Badge

As can be seen by comparison with 1st Battalion Scots Guards, the device in the centre of the King's Colour of the two battalions of the Scots Guards differs, while following the rule of all the second battalions in the Brigade of Guards, the Union Jack is placed in the corner. The Regimental March of the Scots Guards is "Highland Laddie", while their bearskins are easily distinguished as have no plumes in the sides. Officers and men alike wear the chequered band on the forage cap.

1st Battalion Irish Guards


King's Colour	Cap Badge

At present the Irish Guards have one battalion only. The Badge of the regiment, worn as a Cap Badge by all ranks, is the Star of the Order of Saint Patrick. The plume in the bearskin is Irish blue in colour; the cap band of the men's forage cap is green. The fourth of the Regiments of Foot Guards, the buttons on the tunics are placed in sets of four. The regiment was raised after the last South African War, and the 10 Honours of the Great War appear on the Colours, which were presented in 1927.

1st Battalion Welsh Guards


King's Colour	Cap Badge

The warrant for the formation of the Welsh Guards was dated Feb 26th 1915, and on March 1st (St David's Day) they mounted the King's Guard for the first time. The 1st Battalion went out to France on August 17th 1915. The 5th Regiment of Guards, the buttons are worn in groups of five, while the plume of the bearskin is white with a green bar. The cap band of the forage cap is black and the Badge is a leek: the regimental motto is "Cymru am Byth" (Wales for ever). No. 1 Company is known as the "Prince of Wales's Company."

1st Battalion The Queens Royal Regiment (West Surrey)


King's Colour	Cap Badge

The 1st Battalion of the Queen's Royal Regiment are another of the few remainins battalions who still carry the full-sized old colour with the spear-head top to the pike. The Colour is very old, and the white silk has faded to a deep yellow. This Battalion also posesses a third colour, which is green with the cypher of Catherine of Braganza in the centre. The Cap Badge is the Paschal Lams, and until recently it bore the name "The Queen's" on a scroll beneath the wreath. This Badge is the crest of the Braganza family.

1st Battalion The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)


Regimental Colour	Cap Badge

The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) has bike facings in full dress, and like other "Royal" regiments has a blue Regimental Colour. In each corner of the colour is the lion of England, crowned. The lion is also the Cap Badge, but here he is not crowned. In the Great War the King's Own Royal Regiment expanded to 16 Battalions. The pre 1914 Honours, carried by the two Regular and two Territorial battalions of the regiment number 20, while in the recent war 59 were gained.

1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment


Regimental Colour	Cap Badge

The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, formerly the 6th Foot, is one of the oldest regiments in the British Army. Its Badge is the antelope, worn on the headdress and also borne in the center of the Regimental Colour, which also bears the 16 Honours gained prior to 1914. In the Great War the regiment numbered thirty battalions, and gained 70 more Honours, serving in France and Flauders, in Italy, at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia, and in Persia.

2nd Battalion The Royal Fusiliers


Regimental Colour	Cap Badge

Formerly the 7th Foot, the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) has the privilege, shared with the Buffs, Honourable Artillery Company, Grenadier Guards and Royal Marines, of marching through the City of London with bayonets fixed. The plume in the busby is white; as a Royal Regiment the Royal Fusiliers have blue facings, and this is the field of the Regimental Colour which has in each corner the White Horse of Hanover. The first four Battalions of the London Regiment (Territorial Army) are affiliated to this regiment. (See 1st Battalion City of London Regiment).

1st Battalion The King's Regiment (Liverpool)


Regimental Colour	Cap Badge

Formerly the 8th Foot, King George I gave it the title of the "King's Regiment" and his interlaced cypher can be seen in each of the corners of the Regimental COlour. The motto of the regiment is that of the old Hanoverian Guelphic Order, "Nec Aspera Terrent" (Nor do difficulties frighten us), and the Badge is the White Horse of Hanover. While the Battle Honours of the Great War are borne on the King's Colour, all the others, including "Afghanistan 1919", are on the Regimental Colour. In the Great War the Regiment was represented by 45 Battalions.

2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment


Regimental Colour	Cap Badge

The facings of the Regiment are yellow, and the Regimental Colour is of this shade. The Regimental Badge is the figure of Britannia, and this is responsible for a nickname the regiment bears of the "Holy Boys". During the Peninsular War the Spaniards imagined that the badge was the figure of the Virgin Mary, and venerated the wearers. "Rule Britannia" is the regimental march. Formerly the 9th Foot, the regiment has a most distinguished record; it found the funeral party which buried Sir John Moore at Corunna.