Colours of the pro-Hanoverian Volunteer Unit the Yorkshire Blues in the '45

Various volunteer units were raised by "patriotically inclined" pro-Hanoverian nobility, gentry and clergy during the '45 and the Yorkshire Blues was one such unit. The money raised by the patriotic association in York, £31,420, funded four companies of infantry, each of 70 men plus sergeants, corporals and drummers. The unit lasted about four months. The name described their uniform, which was blue faced with red and of fairly simple cut and design without lapels.

This blog post: https://defendingthelegacy.blogspot.com/2017/01/flag-of-yorkshire-blues-regiment-in-1745.html put me onto a contemporary print, which unusually details the design of the regiment's flags, although it does not give the colours used. The coat of arms of York in the centre is known but the field of the flags is not. That blog post suggests blue, which is as good a colour as any and probably more likely than most, and I have followed that in my reconstructions of the flags. I have also produced an entirely speculative union flag design; it is quite likely that no such flag was carried but I like to be thorough in these matters! I have also shown the design with the inscription plus one without; the contemporary print shows both and it is not clear if both were used or the design with the inscription is entirely the fantasy of the print maker. One can never be sure in these matters!

The unit saw little action, mostly being used for garrison or escort work, as far as I can tell, but I would be keen to hear more if anyone does have more information.

The colours of Jacobite Infantry Regiment Lord Louth 1689-1690

Captain John Stevens records in his Journal that Oliver, Lord Louth's regiment in June 1690 consisted of 13 companies, each of 62 men for a total of 806 private soldiers at full strength. He describes the brown on the flags as "filamot", obviously a distortion of the French feuille morte or "dead leaf". Their uniform was white lined and faced filamot, clearly a popular colour with some Jacobites.

The flags are a little sombre but have their own quiet appeal. As I am sure I have said before, not all flags can be wildly colourful!

 According to this webpage: https://www.louthnewryarchives.ie/online-exhibitions/landowners-county-louth/louth.shtml "Matthew, the 7th Baron Louth, joined the Jacobite cause in 1689 and commanded an infantry regiment at the seige of Derry.  He was outlawed and exiled, and died in September 1689. The 8th Baron Louth, Oliver, was only 21 when he succeeded to the title in 1689.  He joined the Jacobite forces and was outlawed, and was in Limerick at the surrender in 1691."

Louth's, Bellew's and Slane's regiments are discussed in "Louth Regiments in the Irish Jacobite Army" by Diarmuid Murtagh in Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society, 1953, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1953), pp. 8-15:

"There is an early report upon Louth's and Bellew's which is of passing interest. Writing from Dungannon under date 6th April, 1689, Major-General Pusignan reports : "I have seen the regiments of Bellew, of Gormanstown and of Louth, which have not got a single sword, and not enough muskets. The companies are stronger in pikes than in muskets, and of these very few of what there are are capable of being fired." Despite this lack of equipment, Pusignan led them both north to join the besieging army before Derry."

A return for the three regiments of 27th September, 1689 suggests that by then the regiments had acquired many more muskets but that only Bellew's had pikes, and "we find Slane's with the very unusual equipment of 100% muskets. This contained the germ of disaster, as the Huguenots were to find at the Boyne, for in the days before bayonets, a proportion of pikes or their equivalent was essential to protect the battalion from the charge of cavalry."

Bellew and Louth's regiments were part of the front line during the Boyne campaign and, along with Slane's, fell back on Limerick after the battle and formed part of the garrison. All three regiments took part in the campaign of 1691 and fought at Aughrim, where they suffered heavy casualties. Lord Slane was taken prisoner and Lord Bellew mortally wounded, lingering to die in the following January, with what suffering can perhaps be imagined. On his monument in Duleek church his widow Lady Margaret recorded that he "was shot in the belly at Aughrim fight".

The colours of Jacobite Infantry Regiment Earl of Antrim 1689-1690

Captain John Stevens' Journal reports on the Earl of Antrim's Regiment in June 1690 (and describes the flag as I have depicted here):

13 companies, each of 50 men to a total of 650 private soldiers.

Uniform was white lined red.

The regiment seems to have disappeared from the Jacobite army lists after the battle of the Boyne.

This design seems to have formed the basis for the subsequent designs of French Irish regimental flags to 1791.

The colours of Jacobite Infantry Regiment Lord Bellew 1689-1691

Another Jacobite flag set here, the colours of Lord Bellew's Regiment of Foot 1689-1691.

Captain John Steven's records in his Journal that Lord Bellew's regiment consisted of 13 companies, each of 62 men for a total of 806 private soldiers at full strength. He describes the brown on the flags as "filamot", obviously a distortion of the French feuille morte or "dead leaf". At a distance the flags must have looked a little dark and sepulchral! The regiment's uniform was red lined in orange tawny.

 

The colours of Jacobite Infantry Regiment Gordon O'Neill 1689-1691

I've been working on some very cryptic source material for late 17th century Dutch infantry flags of late and have not yet completed the flag sheets as the material is so very difficult to interpret satisfactorily; so, as it is some time since I last posted anything, to keep things ticking over on the blog here are the colours of Jacobite infantry regiment Gordon O'Neill 1689-1691.

Captain John Steven's records in his Journal that Gordon O'Neill's regiment consisted of 13 companies, each of 62 men for a total of 806 private soldiers at full strength. Their uniform was red lined white and faced red.

 

Highly Speculative Reconstruction of the flags of Dutch Infantry Regiment 16 Cromwell/Dolman/Cary/Van Marion/Van Meynderswijk

I've been asked to reconstruct plausible flags for various Dutch infantry regiments. Boxel's 1672 Dutch Manual of Arms gives a list of infantry flags, usually with cryptic detail, and says of this unit (then Dolman) "Root en Wit verdeelt" which means "red and white divided". Mugnai in his Helion volume on the Dutch army of 1660-1687 claims this means divided in four. Taking this as a starting point, I looked through Hall's volume on Dutch infantry flags of 1685-1715 to see if any flags of that period were quartered in design and the only flag quartered is that of Haersolte, 1701 Salm, 1701 Ranck, 1715 Rantzouw; it is depicted in the Triomphes Louis XIV in blue and chamois. I have used the detail of that flag for this highly speculative but very attractive recreation of the flags of  Cromwell/Dolman/Cary/Van Marion/Van Meynderswijk (IR16 in the Helion volume). The top flag is a battalion flag and the two flags below on each sheet possible designs of the colonel's flag. The heraldry of the two variants is that of Holland and Gelderland, the two provinces to which the unit was attached. First raised in 1605, it was an English unit until 1665, hence the very English names of the first three colonels. It fought at Maastricht in 1673 and Seneffe in 1674. In the 1660s the regiment was red coated. The regiment was disbanded in 1678. 

Reconstruction of the flags of Dutch Infantry Regiment 9 Pfalz-Birkenfeld/Hüffel (after fragmentary remains depicted in Triomphes Louis XIV)

These flags are my reconstruction of the flags of Dutch IR 9 Pfalz-Birkenfeld/Hüffel after the very fragmentary remains depicted in the Triomphes Louis XIV of a flag captured by the French at Neerwinden in 1693. The fragments appear to be those of the colonel's flag and the corner details strongly suggest the main motif was a saltire, unusual for a non-Scottish unit in Dutch service. Hall in his book on the Dutch suggests the possibility of the Dutch lion at the centre of the flag, as I have shown it here. The upper flag with a red field is a very speculative regimental flag, the flag below the colonel's flag. I was also asked to depict the flags with a motto so also offer these for those who might like them.

Pfalz-Birkenfeld IR No.9 Province of Holland, 1 battalion

Oberst 1673-1704 Johan Karl Pfalzgraf von Birkenfeld; 1704 on, Friedrich Johann Baron von Hüffel

Service:
1702: Siege of the citadel of Lüttich
1703: Siege of Bonn
1706: Battle of Ramillies; siege of Ath
1709: Battle of Malplaquet
1710: Siege of Aire
 

 

And the uniform in the late 17th to early 18th century was something like this:

 

 

French Cavalry Standards at Warburg 1760 - Problems and Solutions

As so often with 18th century French cavalry standards, we do not know the emblems emblazoned on many of the standards carried by the French cavalry at Warburg. The list below shows what we do know and my suggested standards offered on the blog:

Montcalm - completely unknown (solution: use whichever of my generic standards appeals!)
Beauvilliers - Aurore with fringe gold and silver but emblem unknown (see below for my suggested solution)
Bourbon - Done and on the blog; see: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2022/06/experimental-french-cavalry-standards.html

Royal Étranger - Done and on the blog; see: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2022/06/french-cavalry-standard-royal-cavalry.html
Archiac - Red with gold embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown (solution: use one of my generic red standards)
Saint Aldegonde - Done and on the blog; see: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2023/08/warburg-french-flags-project-standard.html

La Reine - Known and still to do
Balincourt - Yellow with gold  embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown (solution: use one of my generic yellow standards)
Crussol - Red with gold embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown  (solution: use one of my generic red standards)

Royal Piémont - Done and on the blog; see: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2022/07/french-cavalry-standard-royal-piemont.html
Descars - Aurore with gold embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown (solution: use one of my generic aurore standards)
Espinchal - Ponceau with black border and gold embroidery and fringe but emblem unknown (see below for my suggested solution)

The generic French cavalry standards can be found on the blog here: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2024/05/generic-standards-for-french-cavalry.html and here: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2024/07/further-generic-standards-for-french.html (for the aurore and ponceau red ones)

As noted above, I still have the standard of the regiment La Reine to do!

And for detailed information on the battle of Warburg and the French regiments there please see: http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=1760-07-31_-_Battle_of_Warburg

Guidons of the Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) c.1690-1715

Percy Sumner, in his article (with J. O. Dalrymple) UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS PART I—1678 TO 1751 in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 15, No. 59 (Autumn, 1936), pp. 151-170, quotes from the letters of Colonel Lord John Hay of January 1705 describing the regimental standards as "embroidered upon blue damask" with blue staves. Sumner then goes on to say that, of course, the standards of dragoons were guidons. He speculates that they probably bore the white saltire of St Andrew before the Union with England in 1707 and that the mention of embroidery suggests a badge placed on them, "most likely the Thistle and Crown, with the motto "Nemo Me Impune Lacessit" in the centre". This is my reconstruction of the guidons based on that description.

I am not entirely convinced by the mention of the white saltire so I have done two versions, one with and one without. These can be regarded perhaps as the pre and post 1707 versions, if you so wish, or use the version without the saltire for the whole period!

And a detailed account of the regiment can be found here: http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php/Scots_Dragoons

Four Generic English Queen Anne Cipher Dragoon Guidons for 1702-1714

Written records tell us (e.g. the Great Wardrobe Accounts (" Boughton Papers ") preserved in the Round Tower, Windsor Castle) that English dragoon and cavalry guidons and standards of the period 1689-1715 often carried the monarch's cipher with a crown above on a coloured damask sheet, with various fringes. I therefore offer these four generic dragoon guidons with Queen Anne's cipher for the period 1702-1714, which will be useful for the all too many English dragoon regiments of the WSS for which we do not know their guidons. 

Three Damask Troop Guidons of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons 1685

At the coronation of James II in 1685 the 8 troop guidons of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons (later the 1st Dragoon Guards) were recorded. I have depicted the guidons of the Lieutenant Colonel, with the golden escarbuncle, a badge of Henry II; of the 1st troop captain, two silver ostrich feathers in saltire; and of the 6th troop captain, a phoenix in flames, a badge of Queen Elizabeth I.

The Kronoskaf site has a detailed history of the regiment here: http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=1st_Royal_Dragoons

Three Generic Damask Cavalry Standards With Queen Anne's Cipher For The Period 1702-1714

The three damask cavalry standards with Queen Anne's cipher, useful for the period of her reign 1702-1714:

I shall do further variants with the William III cipher and that of William and Mary...

Three More Generic Plain Damask English Cavalry Standards for the 1690s-1715

Here are three further coloured plain damask cavalry standards that will be useful for the period 1690s to 1715.

1685 Standards of Peterborough and Plymouth's Horse Regiments (which will also be useful as "generic" standards for other regiments)

As we know so little, these plain damask standards will also be useful as generic standards for other British cavalry regiments of the period up to 1715. I shall be doing more standards of this type in other colours plus some with the ciphers of William and Mary and Queen Anne, some of which are recorded authentic standards. (And Peterborrow is a contemporary spelling; no standardisation at that period!)

The Earl of Peterborough's Horse was first raised by James II in 1685 as part of his moves against Monmouth's Rebellion. It remained loyal to James until he ran away. It fought under William III in Ireland in 1689-1690 and was at the battles of the Boyne 1690 and Aughrim 1691 plus various sieges. It fought in the Nine Year's War from 1694 to 1697.

During the War of the Spanish Succession it served entirely in Spain and was at the battle of Almansa in 1707 and the battles of Almenar and Sarragossa in 1710 plus numerous sieges before being captured at Brihuega in 1710. It was exchanged in 1711 and returned to England. It later became the Second or Queen’s Regiment of Dragoon Guards.

The Earl of Plymouth's Horse was also first raised by James II in 1685 as part of his moves against Monmouth's Rebellion but was too late to participate in its suppression. Like Peterborough's Regiment it remained loyal to James until he ran away. It campaigned in Scotland 1689 against a Jacobite rebellion. It also took part in the Nine Year's War where in 1692 took part in the unsuccessful attempt to relieve Namur and in the Battle of Steenkerque; in 1693 in the Battle of Landen; in 1694 in the siege of Huy; and in 1695 the siege of Namur. At the end of 1697, it returned to England.

In the War of the Spanish Succession it served entirely in Flanders, being at the battles of the Schellenberg and Blenheim in 1704, Ramillies in 1706, at Oudenarde in 1708 and Malpaquet in 1709 plus many sieges. Later the Third or Prince of Wales’ Regiment of Dragoon Guards.

For much more detailed accounts of both regiments see the following Kronoskaf WSS pages:

Earl of Peterborough's Horse http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Harvey%27s_Horse

Earl of Plymouth's Horse http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Wood%27s_Horse

Two Further Troop Standards of the English Royal Regiment of Horse 1685

For text see the previous post; here are two further troop standards of the Royal Regiment of Horse, later Royal Horse Guards Blue:

Troop Standard of English Royal Regiment of Horse 1685

First raised 1650 as a Cromwellian regiment of horse. Transferred to royal service on the restoration of Charles II in 1660; became the Earl of Oxford's Regiment in 1661, later called the Oxford Blues in contrast to the red coated Life Guards. In 1685 it was part of James II's army that defeated Monmouth's Rebellion. In 1688 it was part of William III's army and it fought in Ireland at the Boyne after fighting in Flanders at the battle of Walcourt. It did not serve abroad until the War of the Austrian Succession where it fought at Dettingen in 1743 and Fontenoy in 1745, suffering heavy casualties. It was renamed The Royal Horse Guards Blue in 1750. In the Seven Years War it fought at Minden, 1759, Warburg 1760 and Villinghausen 1761.

This was one of the troop standards in 1685:

At least eight other troop standards are known for this regiment in 1685 and I shall be posting some of the others later.

We have a major problem with depicting British cavalry standards between the 1690s and the 1740s in that we know very little about them. That being so, wargamers who wish to field British cavalry units in the War of the Spanish Succession can choose to have no standards (which would be heresy) or use earlier standards. Given the longevity of high quality cavalry standards in many nations at this period, it seems to me that the latter course makes perfect sense. It would probably be best, though, to avoid standards carrying the ciphers of disgraced monarchs like James II in the 1690s and early 1700s!

The uniform in 1685 included a blue coat lined red with gold buttons and buff breeches.

Colours of North and Grey's British Regiment of Foot in the War of the Spanish Succession

First raised 1685 by John Granville, Earl of Bath. In the War of the Spanish Succession the proprietor was from 15th January 1703 until 1715: William, Lord North and Grey

The flags here depicted are shown in a manuscript drawing of 1726 in the Bodleian Library which mostly depicts the flags of Grove's Regiment, the successor to North and Grey's, later the 10th Foot. The MS seems to show the then current flags of Grove's Regiment mixed with those of the previous North and Grey's. The interpretation of the illustration in S M Milne's Standards and Colours of the Army 1661-1881 is that these flags with the sun in splendour on a red field are the flags of North and Grey's Regiment as carried in the War of the Spanish Succession.


Uniform in the War of the Spanish Succession is debatable; the left hand figure is as shown by Kronoskaf WSS and Baccus's guide to WSS uniforms; the right hand figure is based on the description in C S Grant's guides to the Armies and Uniforms of Marlborough's Wars.

Kronoskaf's WSS site has a very long and detailed account of the formation and history of the regiment here: http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Sir_Beville_Granville%27s_Foot based largely on Cannon's account of the history of the 10th Regiment of Foot dated 1847 which can be downloaded as a PDF from archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/cihm_48345

 

(I have depicted the colours of the Earl of Bath's Regiment in 1685 on one of my two sheets of British flags, which I can email on application; send a message via my Contact Form on the blog if you wish me to send them to you.)

Colours (or flags) of British Royal Scots or 1st Foot 1685 to probably 1707 (plus uniform WSS)

I recently did these as a favour so thought I'd also post them on the blog in case anyone else needs or wants them.

Kronoskaf's WSS site has a humongously large account of the regiment which saves me a vast amount of effort so I refer anyone needing a detailed account to that site here: http://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Royal_Foot

 

And this was probably the uniform in the WSS:

And here are the flags with Simon Miller's splendid troops in a photograph he recently sent me (he still has to finish the bases):

A Happy New Year to everyone - and a final Danish infantry flag in appropriately festive colours...

And here's a final Danish infantry flag, which I am posting only minutes before the end of 2024. Hopefully there'll be many more flags to come in 2025 and I wish a Happy New Year to all who visit the blog and use my flags.

I shall write the text and do the uniform to go with the flag soon in the New Year. No time now before the deadline!

And by request I have produced a speculative version of the Colonel's flag:

Flags and Uniform of French Irish Regiment Galmoy 1702?-1715; and good wishes for Xmas and the New Year!

First raised 1698 by Pierce Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoy, who had fought with the Jacobites in Ireland, from the remains of regiments Charlemont and the Queen of England's foot dragoons. One battalion strong.

Service:

[Good account with much detail on the regiment's service here: http://indigo.ie/~wildgees/galmoy/gal_art1.htm with interesting reference to casualties who ended up in Les Invalides.]

1701 Army of Italy: combat of Carpi; battle of Chiari (heavy casualties)
1702 Defence of Cremona (a heroic defence); Santa Vittoria; battle of Luzzara
1703 Army of the Rhine: siege of Alt Breisach; siege and surrender of Landau; battle of Speyerbach
1704 Italy; storm of Genivolta
1705 Battle of Cassano (heavy losses); Castiglione
1706 Calcinato; siege and battle of Turin
1707 Army of the Rhine; defence of the Lines of Stollhofen
1708 Spain; actions at Tortosa,Valentia and Alecante
1709 Army of Dauphiné, Flanders; battle of Malplaquet
1710 Army of Flanders
1712 Sieges and capture of Douai, Le Quesnoy and Bouchain
1713 Army of Roussillon
1714 Siege and capture of Barcelona

Disbanded 30th January 1715; men transferred to Irish regiment Dillon

And this was the uniform in the War of the Spanish Succession:

Flags and possible uniform of French Irish Regiment Bourke or Burke 1699-1715

This was an Irish regiment created out of the two Jacobite regiments Queen's Guards and Klincarthy in February 1698 by Henry Luttrell, according to Susane. Given the 18th June 1699 to Walter Count Bourke (or Burke) (or Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond Count Bourke according to Kronoskaf WSS). A single battalion strong.

Service:

1702: Army of Italy; combat of Chiari
1702: Defence of Cremona; battle of Luzzara
1703: Combats of Santa Vittoria and San-Benedetto
1704: Sieges of Verceil, Ivrée and Vérue
1705: Battle of Cassano
1706: Siege and battle of Turin
1707: Army of Spain; siege of Lerida
1708: Siege of Tortosa
1710-1712: Army of the Alps
1712: Army of Roussillon
1714: Siege of Barcelona

(Very curiously Kronoskaf's account has the regiment at Oudenarde 1708 and Malplaquet 1709 and later campaigns in Flanders, which does not agree with Susane's account nor that in Hall's volume on the infantry of Louis XIV. Kronoskaf's OOBs for Oudenarde and Malplaquet do not include the regiment.)

1715: Transferred to the service of Spain as the “Regimiento del Principe de Astúrias” (aka “Wachop Infantry”). 1718 renamed Irlanda, then disbanded in 1818.

The uniform in French service is not certain but may have been red with blue facings (as it was later in Spanish service), something like this:

Speculative Leibfahne of Austro-Hungarian regiments raised 1741-2 (but based on the surviving Leibfahne in the HGM)

I was reminded today by a request on the Seven Years War Wargaming Facebook page that I had not yet posted the long-promised speculative Leibfahne to go with my speculative version of the Ordinairfahne of Hungarian regiments raised 1741-2 (see below for a copy of the flag and text I posted on the 26th of March last year). So I hastily finished the almost complete flag and sent it to the requestee (R M Davies of the splendid Jemima Fawr Blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/ ). Here it is for anyone else who would like it, with a Madonna based on that of the surviving Leibfahne from the early 1740s in the HGM:

 

[This is my speculative version of the Ordinairfahne of Hungarian regiments raised 1741-2. All we know is that the base colour was red. No other design details are known but it is highly likely that the flags followed what we think of as the classic Austrian  flag design of the reign of Maria Theresa.

S. Summerfield in his Austrian Infantry of the Seven Years War (2nd Edition) lists the following six Hungarian regiments as having been raised in 1741: IR2 Erzherzog Karl; IR31 Haller; IR32 Forgách; IR33 Nicolaus Esterházy; IR37 Josef Esterházy; and IR52 Bethlen. So any (or all) of these could carry this red flag in the WAS.

I must also finish and post the 1741 version of the Leibfahne; I have not yet been able to complete the Madonna figure on the flag to my satisfaction...]

Flags and uniform of Prussian Garrison Regiment VI

First raised 1741 as the Brieg Garrison Regiment. Expanded from 2 battalions to 4 in June 1756.

1741-1746 garrisoned only Brieg but from 1747-1756 garrisoned the fortresses of Cosel and Brieg and also Namslau.

In 1758 the 4th battalion accompanied the royal army on its campaign in Northern Moravia and was at the siege of Olmütz. In 1759 it was again with the royal army. In 1760 it was employed in Prinz Heinrich's Corps along with six other garrison regiments, replacing five line regiments too weakened by their losses. In 1761 the 4th battalion was assigned to Goltz's Corps which was supposed to advance against Posen but in June it was given to Zieten's Corps. In 1761 the battalion was with the army in Silesia.

The grenadiers formed a grenadier battalion with the grenadiers of Garrison Regiment no.8 in the Seven Years War and suffered heavy losses at Hochkirch and Kunersdorf.

And this was the uniform in 1756:

Flag Dutch Infantry Regiment Aylva captured Seneffe 1674 and depicted in the Triomphes Louis XIV

This is my version of the Dutch Aylva Infantry Regiment flag captured at Seneffe 1674 by the French and depicted in the Triomphes Louis XIV. I was asked to produce the Colonel's flag for the sake of completeness but note that it is totally speculative and it is probably best avoided by authenticity freaks!

For regimental details please see my other captured flags of the Aylva regiment posted on Saturday 12th October.

Flag and uniform of Dutch Infantry Regiment Ingen-Nielant/Gent/Essen/Plettenberg late 17th to early 18th century

First raised 1622 for the Count van Nassau-Dietz. One battalion strong. Province of Geldern

This is my version of the flag of Regiment Ingen-Nielant/Gent/Essen/Plettenberg. Boxel's manual of 1672 merely notes that the flag had blue and white flames, which is all we know, and Bruno Mugnai in his Helion book on the Dutch army 1660-1687 recreates it with a central motif of a bunch of arrows, a common Dutch emblem. For the overall design I used the pattern of flames as shown on the Aylva flag captured at Seneffe 1674 by the French, and on which I am also working. I have chosen an alternative emblem of the armoured arm with a sword for my version. I have been asked for a plausible Colonel's flag so came up with the flag below. Hall shows an example of a Dutch flag claimed to be of this regiment and captured by the French in 1746 at Namur (it is depicted in the Triomphes Louis XV), and suggests it may represent a suitable Colonel's flag. But to my mind Dutch flags changed quite significantly from the WSS to mid-18th century so I am not at all convinced this would be suitable for the WSS or earlier.

This is the page from Boxel's 1672 manual listing flag colours:

Colonels: 1622-1642 Willem Count van Nassau-Dietz; 1642-1661 Eustachius Puchler; 1661-1668 Daniel de Gennis Felin; 1668-1676 Johan Ingen Nielant; 1676-1682 Joachim van Gent, Baron van Meynderswijk; 1682-1699 Philips van Essen van Vanenburg; 1699-1717 Maurits Hendrik van Plettenberg, Herr van Leenhuysen (1702 Brigadier and 1709 General-major)

Service history:

1702: Posted to Sluis
1702-1703: Winter quarters in Flanders
1703: Battle of Stekene
1703-1704: Winter quarters in Flanders
1705: March-April Garrison of Hulst
1710: Siege of Douai

And this was probably the uniform in the late 17th century and also much of the WSS: