Colours carried by the Duke of Norfolk's Regiment (later the 12th Foot) in 1686

These are the colours carried by the Duke of Norfolk's Regiment (later the 12th Foot) in 1686. We do not know exactly what colours they carried in the War of the Spanish Succession but flags from this regiment were captured by the French in 1695 and are very different from these. They may represent a pattern carried as late as the WSS and I shall eventually depict them too.

In 1686 the uniform was red lined white with blue breeches and stockings.  

Full details of the history of the regiment and its service can be found on the Kronoskaf website here:

https://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Richard_Brewer%27s_Foot

The main source for the Kronoskaf account, Cannon, Richard: Historical record of the Twelfth, or The East Suffolk Regiment of Foot, London: Parker, Furnivall and Parker, 1848 can be found on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/cihm_48347.

Colours of The English Holland Regiment (later the 3rd Foot The Buffs) 1685 and 1693

In the 1680s and 1690s the Holland Regiment (later the 3rd Foot The Buffs) had a variety of unusual colours; by the War of the Spanish Succession they were different again and more conventional, and I shall depict those later.

Full details of the history of the regiment can be found here at the Kronoskaf WSS page: https://kronoskaf.com/wss/index.php?title=Prince_George_of_Denmark%27s_Foot Many of the reference volumes cited by Kronoskaf can be found on archive.org