ALEXANDRA, PRINCESS OF WALES'S OWN (Yorkshire Regiment)
Raised in 1688. Its first services were in Flanders, where it fought at the siege and capture of Namur. It took part in the most sanguinary of Marlborough's victories, the battle of Malplaquet, besides engaging in several of the sieges which constituted the latter part of the campaign. The massacre in Ceylon of a detachment of the regiment, consisting of 178 officers and men, forms one of the most tragic episodes in military history. The remainder of the regiment was speedily in the field to avenge those slaughtered, and an ample retribution was exacted from the treacherous Candyans. During the Crimean war it nobly upheld its reputation, and the regiment fought with splendid bravery in the Tirah campaign, and in South Africa, being present at the relief of Kimberley, and the battle of Paardeberg. It added to its great name in the great war on the Continent.
Nickname: "The Green Howards," from its facings, and the name of its first Colonel.
Drums and Silver-mounted Drum-Major's Staff taken by the 2nd Battalion of the 34th Regiment (Border Regiment) from the 34th Regiment of French Infantry of the Line, during the Peninsular War, at the Battle of Arroyo-dos-Molinos, 28th October, 1811.
The Lancashire Fusiliers.—Returning from a Review.
(Depot, Bury.)
(Record Office, Preston.)
The Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt."
"Dettingen," "Minden," "Egmont-op-Zee," "Maida," "Vimiera," "Corunna," "Vittoria," "Pyrenees," "Orthes," "Toulouse," "Peninsula," "Alma," "Inkerman," "Sevastopol," "Lucknow," "Khartoum," "Relief of Ladysmith," "South Africa, 1899-1902."
Motto: Omnia Audax (Daring Everything).
Uniform, Scarlet.
Facings, White.
Head-dress, Racoon-skin cap with primrose plume on left side.
Cap, Blue.
Regimental March, "British Grenadiers."