"Firing into the Brown" #97 - Flags, barracks and stuff

"So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as well as Volunteers. So he marches with the Chief to a great big plain on the top of a mountain, and the Chiefs men rushes into a village and takes it; we three Martinis firing into the brown of the enemy".

Kipling "The Man Who Would Be King"

Time for another update..

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The excellent David Morfitt (he of Not by Appointment fame) mentioned in a comment that the standard carried by the Foot Guards in my recent regiments of renown spot [clicky] was a little "meh" as the young people say (David was more polite than that, merely indicating it was a little 'vanilla' 😁).. 

More importantly though, he also mentioned that he had done a version of it himself some time before, albeit the version he had was for the earlier William'ite period, but having seen it I planned to use it anyway because it was gorgeous, but bugger me if he didn't then go and produce the 1703 Queen Anne version...

No time to hang around - a presenting of the Colours needed to be arranged, and I'm pleased to report, this is now done...

So from this - the old one..

To this:

,,,and the regiment is hugely proud of their new standard...

Cheers David! 👍😊  

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..not surprisingly, there was a huge barracks complex down in Portsmouth to house the men required to man those walls, bastions, ravelins and redoubts.. Victoria Barracks was demolished in the 1960's but the other end of the parade ground you see in the picture, ie. behind the photographer, was another barracks that still exists, and now houses the City Museum... this bears further investigation, might be time for a visit? 

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Laters, as the young people are want to say...