Third Company

The Union throughout. In the centre the royal badge of King Henry the Fifth, viz. a fleur-de-lis ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold.

The fleur-de-lis was borne by Henry the Fifth as the royal cognizance of France; it was also one of the six which were assumed by James the First.

Fourth Company Present Regimental Colour of the Second Battalion

The Union throughout. In the centre the royal badge of King Henry the Seventh, viz. a portcullis, with chains pendant, or, ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton, the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold.

This badge belongs to those borne by the United Houses of York and Lancaster, and was assumed by King Henry the Seventh on his marriage with Elizabeth, in right of his mother Margaret, daughter of the Duke of Somerset, the portcullis being an ancient badge of that House.

Fifth Company

The Union throughout. In the eentre the royal badge of King Edward the Fourth, viz. the sun in its splendour, or, thereon a rose argent, barbed and seeded proper, ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold.

Edward the Fourth, the first of the House of York who attained sovereignty assumed as one of his badges the white rose, in right of his grandmother, Anne, daughter of Roger Mortimer, earl of March. He also assumed the sun in its splendour, as a memento of the battle of Mortimer's Cross, fought in 1461, and which paved his way to the throne. History states, that in the most critical moment of that eventful day, when the tide of battle raged most furiously against Edward, three suns suddenly burst forth in the heavens in full splendour, and as suddenly joined into one. At this moment the fortune of the day turned, and Edward gained a complete victory. In memory of this event, he, on his accession to the throne, assumed as a badge a white rose in the centre of the sun, whose beams shone out around it; and in this form it is now borne by the 5th company.