Season's Greetings to All - and the appropriately coloured Colours of the English Queen's Own Regiment of Marines Later 4th Foot 1702-1703

My last posting before the holiday is the colours of the English Queen's Own Regiment of Marines, later 4th Foot, 1702-1703, from a verbal description in the Wardrobe Accounts. They are remarkably similar flags to those of the Foot Guards, although the Colonel's colour is white rather than crimson; possibly a useful ploy to make the enemy confused about what quality of troops they are facing! For a detailed account of the regiment see Kronoskaf here: https://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Queen_Consort%27s_Foot

The regiment mostly served in Spain and Portugal in the War of the Spanish Succession.

The company colour motifs are a pomegranate, a wheatsheaf and a wild boar. The pomegranate was an old badge of Catherine of Aragon; the wild boar that of Richard III. The motto Semper Eadem was used by Elizabeth I. (All noted by Lawson in A History of the Uniforms of the British Army, Vol 1(1).)