Colors of the British Army:
Grenadier Guards

28th and 29th Companies

by Robert McNair




Twenty-Eighth Company

The Union throughout. In the centre the crest of Brunswick and Hanover, viz. out of a ducal coronet a pillar proper, the top adorned with a coronet and plume of three peacocks' feathers proper, charged with a star argent; on either side of the pillar, out of the coronet, a sickle argent, handles gules, the backs adorned with small tufts of peacocks' feathers; and between the sickles, before the pillar, a horse current, argent, ensigned with the imperial crown; and on escrolls, or, the following words in Roman characters, sable,

    LINCELLES - CORUNNA - BAROSSA - PENINSULA - WATERLOO.
    ALMA - INKERMAN - SEVASTOPOL.

In the dexter canton the number of the company in Roman characters, gold.

Twenty-Ninth Company

The Union throughout. In the centre the Union badge of Ireland, viz. a trefoil, Vert, ensigned with the imperial crown; and on escrolls, or, the following words in Roman characters, sable,

    LINCELLES - CORUNNA - BAROSSA - PENINSULA - WATERLOO.
    ALMA - INKERMAN - SEVASTOPOL.

In the dexter canton the number of the company in Roman characters, gold.


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