Ninth Company

The Union throughout. In the centre the royal badge of King Henry the Seventh, viz. on a mount vert a greyhound passant, argent, gorged with a collar, gules, studded and ringed, or, ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold.

The white greyhound belonged to the Earl of Richmond as a supporter, and was assumed by Henry the Seventh on the union of the Houses of York and Lancaster.

Tenth Company Present Regimental Colour of the First Battalion

The Union throughout. In the centre the royal badge of King Henry the Second, viz. the sun in its splendour, or, ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold. (New Regulation Pattern.)

This badge was assumed by King Richard the Second in 1377--the whole sun with its beams being intended to signify that whereas his father, Edward the Black Prince, had taken for one of his badges' "the sun rising," that sun was to attend on him to its full perfection and glory.

Eleventh Company

The Union throughout. In the centre the royal badge of King James the First, viz. an unicorn passant, argent, armed, maned, tufted, and unguled, or, gorged with a prince's coronet, and the chain reflexed over the back of the last, ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold.

King James the First carried as supporters a lion crowned rampant, and an unicorn rampant, with a crown round the neck, and chain. An unicorn statant is the badge of the 11th company.