These standards are too attractive not to be posted, although the units did not serve in the War of the Spanish Succession and the design is really too late for use in the earlier periods. They are recreated from verbal descriptions in the Great Wardrobe Accounts. However, given the paucity of well-documented British cavalry standards for this period, they may still be of use for those not too obsessed with absolute accuracy and are anxious to give every unit a standard...
The Kronoskaf WSS site has the histories of these units under Household Cavalry at: https://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=British_Army#Household_Cavalry
Lovely standards David and I may be biased but the Scots Guards is a stunning one!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donnie. :-) I think some bias is perfectly allowable! ;-)
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David.
Excellent work, David.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ray. :-) It's s pity we do not know more about British flags of the period but we have to make do with what we do know...
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David.
Yes! These are indeed eye-catching.
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Stokes
Thank you, Stokes. :-) I hope to see them in use sometime...
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David.
Those really are very nice David:).
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. :-) In a way it is a bit liberating to recreate flags from only verbal descriptions!
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David.