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Queen's Colours (Canada)

Regimental Colours

Queen's Colours

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Infantry: all regiments of which have two colours.

All colours are silk, 36 x 45 inches, with a 2-inch fringe and gold-and-crimson cord and tassels. The finial for all ground force colours is the crest of Canada (a lion statant guardant royally crowned and holding a maple leaf in his right forepaw) cast in gilt brass.

Foot Guards (Governor General's Foot Guards and Grenadier Guards of Canada)

1. Sovereign's Colour. Crimson field, gold and crimson fringe. A regimental device appears in the center with battle honors inscribed on gold scrolls arrayed in vertical rows. The badges used are specific to each company of the regiment concerned and rotate as colours are periodically replaced.

2. Regimental Colour. The national flag of Canada in silk, 36 x 45 in, gold and crimson fringe, cord and tassels. The regimental badge appears on the center of the maple leaf within a scarlet circlet inscribed with the name of the regiment in gold letters and ensigned with the royal crown. Battle honors appear on gold scrolls arrayed in vertical rows on the red stripes of the flag.

Guards companies also carry camp colours approximately 20 inches in the fly.

Infantry of the Line

1. Queen's Colour. The national flag of Canada, as for the regimental colour of Guards regiments, but without battle honours.

2. Regimental Colour. A silk flag, 36 x 45 in, in the color of the regimental facings, except that if the facings are white or scarlet the flag is white with a red St. George's cross, and if they are black it is black with a red St. George's cross. Regiments without a designated facing color use blue. The fringe is gold and the facing color. The regimental badge is centered on the flag within a red circlet inscribed with the name of the regiment in gold, ensigned with a royal crown and surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves "in autumnal colors." Highland regiments use a wreath of maple leaves and thistles. The regimental motto is inscribed on a scroll tied at the center at the base of the wreath. Battle honors appear on gold scrolls on each side of the badge, either in vertical rows or superimposed on a large laurel wreath surrounding the badge. Rifle regiments carry no colors.

Calvary and Armor

In common with other British-derived forces, Canadian cavalry regiments--or, in modern times, armored regiments--carry either a standard or a guidon as the equivalent of a regimental color.

In Canada, only the Governor-General's Horse Guards carries the standard. As is the case with British forces, it is made of crimson silk damask, 26 x 29.5 in, with a 2-in gold fringe and gold and crimson cord and tassels. The regimental badge appears in the center of a red circlet inscribed with the name of the unit in gold, surrounded by a wreath of autumnal-colored maple leaves, and ensigned with the royal crown. In the upper hoist and lower fly is a white horse of Hanover, while the abbreviation "GGHG" appears in the upper fly and lower hoist on a dark blue background surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves. Regimental distinctions, honors, and devices are arrayed on the flag, with honors appearing on small gold scrolls aligned in vertic