Twelfth Company

The Union throughout. In the centre the royal badge of King Henry the Fourth, viz. on a mount vert an antelope statant, argent, attired, tufted, ducally gorged, and chain reflexed over the back, or, ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold.

This formed one of the badges of Henry the Fourth, called Henry Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt. He assumed the antelope as a badge, which from the earliest period had belonged to the House of Lancaster.

Thirteenth Company

The Union throughout. In the centre the royal badge of King Richard the Second, viz. on a mount vert a hart couchant, argent, attired, unguled, ducally gorged, and chain reflexed over the back, gold, ensigned with the imperial crown. In the dexter canton the number of the company inscribed in Roman characters, gold.

Richard the Second, son of the Black Prince, assumed this as one of his badges, and also as a supporter, a white hart jacent, or kneeling, with a crown about its neck, which is now borne by the 13th company.