Colours of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards

1760 - 1801




Royal Standard

Colonel's Colour

Lieutenant Colonel's Colour

Major's Colour

Captain's or Company Colours

The company badges appearing on the Captain's Colours are copyrighted by
Her Majesty's First or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, reproduced and incorporated
here by permission of Colonel E T Bolitho OBE, Regimental Lieutenant Colonel.

1st or King's Company The Royal Crest in gold, a crowned lion standing on a large crown.	2nd Company A red Tudor rose with a white centre.	3rd Company A fleur-de-lys.
4th Company A portcullis with chains hanging from it.	5th Company A white rose in a glory or sun.	6th Company A thistle and rose, stalked and leaved.
7th Company The harp of Ireland.	8th Company The red dragon of Wales, on a green mount.	9th Company A white greyhound, with a red collar, standing on a green mount.
10th Company A sun in splendour with a human face.	11th Company A white unicorn of Scotland, gorged with a golden prince's coronet and chain, on a green mount.	12th Company A white antelope, gorged with a ducal crown and chain, on a green mount.
13th Company A white hart, gorged with a ducal crown and chain, on a green mount	14th Company A white falcon with wings expanded, perched on the barrel of a close golden fetterlock.	15th Company A red rose with green stalks and leaves.
16th Company A white swan with expanded wings, gorged with a ducal crown and chain on a green mount.	17th Company A white falcon, crowned and bearing a sceptre, standing on the stump of a tree, out of which is growing a branch with three roses, one white and two red.	18th Company A trunk of a tree with three leaves sprouting.
19th Company A golden sceptre and sword proper.	20th Company A green oak tree on a green mount. In the branches of the tree may be seen the head of Charles II.	21st Company A sun rising behind clouds.
22nd Company A beacon or cresset with flames.	23rd Company Silver ostrich feathers, crossed.	24th Company A white hart with golden antlers springing from the gate of a golden triple towered castle.

Company Badges 1 thru 20 were granted by King Charles II in 1661.
Badges 21, 22, 23, and 24 were granted by Queen Anne in 1713.




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