Head-dress, Helmet.
Cap, Blue.
Regimental March, "Men of Harlech."
A silver wreath is borne on the staff of the King's Colour of both battalions to commemorate the devoted gallantry of Lieutenants Melville and Coghill in saving that colour from the hands of the Zulus, after the Battle of Isandlwana, and as a tribute of appreciation of the gallant defence of Rorke's Drift, 1879.
THE SOUTH WALES BORDERERS
Raised in 1689, the regiment has one of the most remarkable histories in the British Army, having twice being almost annihilated, at Chillianwallah, 1849, where 23 officers and 527 men were killed and wounded, the regiment being brought out of action by the quartermaster; and in 1879 at Isandlwana, where hardly a man escaped death. The gallant defence of Rorke's Drift by one company roused the wonder and admiration of the whole civilised world. The losses of the regiment in killed alone reached the appalling total of 21 officers and 590 men. It had the proud distinction of having won more Victoria Crosses than any other corps in the British Army.
Nicknamed "Howard's Greens," from its facings and its Colonel's name from 1717 to 1737.
(Depot, Berwick-on-Tweed.)