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The Colours of the Regiment

Regular Battalions

Colours 1846


4th Foot. Presented by Lieutenant Colonel Breton at Kampti, India, on 24th March 1846. Carried in the Crimea and during the Indian Mutiny. Placed in Exeter Guildhall in 1865, restored to the Regiment by Exeter Corporation on 17th May 1938, and laid up in the Regimental Chapel on 9th July 1938.
Accession Numbers: KO0214/02 and KO0214/03


4th Foot. Presented by Lieutenant Colonel Breton at Kampti, India, on 24th March 1846. Carried in the Crimea and during the Indian Mutiny. Placed in Exeter Guildhall in 1865, restored to the Regiment by Exeter Corporation on 17th May 1938, and laid up in the Regimental Chapel on 9th July 1938.
Accession Number: KO0214/04 and KO0214/05

    
Illustrations of the Colours as they appear in the Chapel of the King's Own Royal Regiment.
Accession Numbers: KO2914/05a and KO2914/05b


Colours of the Regiment as carried from 1846.
Accession Number: KO0474/01


Parade at Lancaster by the Depot of the King's Own Royal Regiment to mark the laying-up of the Colours in the King's Own Royal Regiment Chapel on 9th July 1938.
Accession Number: KO0636/02


Parade at Lancaster by the Depot of the King's Own Royal Regiment to mark the laying-up of the Colours in the King's Own Royal Regiment Chapel on 9th July 1938.
Accession Number: KO0636/03

 

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