Lost and Found (flags), and British Dragoon/DG facing tables

    The lost GMB flags for my British cavalry have surfaced, and those appropriate to the three Dragoon/Dragoon Guard regiments have been bestowed upon them with all due pomp and ceremony... As well as some white glue! There was probably some karma at work here. The post on the Canaanite army that Ken gifted me with has been in the "must do" queue for quite some time, and I finally got around to it. When I opened the Really Useful Box that I had them stored in, it had some "in process" figures within, and in my pre Historicon preparations, I found that I had swept the flags into the box as well, as I knew the cavalry was at the top of the list to do after the convention. Lost flags -  found!

Here they are in their splendor! The flags of the Dragoon Guards are square, like those of the Life Guards and the Horse Guards, because the Dragoon Guards descended from the regiments of Horse, which were heavy cavalry, while the Dragoon regiments have the swallow tail guidons associated with their arm of service. as noted previously, few if any British cavalry regiments carried any of their flags in the filed after 1812, but not so for my lads!

The 3rd (Prince of Wakes) Dragoon Guards standard  has a white field and gold fringe, in keeping with the regiment's white facing and yellow lace. The three feathered cap of the regiment's namesake is prominent, if less easily distinguished due to the white feathers on a white field.

The 2nd (Royal North British) Dragoons have the usual guidon shaped flag. In British cavalry regiments, the first squadron caries the Kings standard, and each of the other squadrons has a regimental flag. Ordinarily, the King's standard has a crimson field, whereas the regimental flags have their fields in the facing color. Since I like the aesthetics of the flags matching the facings, most of my regiments carry their Regimental colors. I will use some of the left over King's colors for units that GMB doesn't list flags for. 

The guidon of the 3rd (Queen's Own) Dragoons is a very bluish green, almost a turquoise hue. The Hamilton-Smith diagrams show the green if this regiment as being a rather dull shade more towards the yellow than the blue end of the spectrum, which is how I painted them. In keeping with the unit's white lace, the fringe is silver.

British Dragoons and Dragoon Guards, 1803 - 1812

Unit	Title	Facings	Lace
1st Dragoon Guards	King’s	Dark Blue	Gold
2nd Dragoon Guards	Queen’s	Black	Silver
3rd Dragoon Guards	Prince of Wales’s	White	Gold
4th Dragoon Guards	Royal Irish	Dark Blue	Silver
5th Dragoon Guards	Princess Charlotte f Wales	Green	Gold
6th Dragoon Guards	Carabiniers	White	Silver
7th Dragoon Guards	Prince Royal’s	Black	Gold
1st Dragoons	Royal	Dark Blue	Gold
2nd Dragoons	Royal North British	Dark Blue	Gold*
3rd Dragoons	King’s Own	Dark Blue	Gold
4th Dragoons	Queen’s Own	Green	Silver
5th Dragoons	vacant	--	--
6th Dragoons	Inniskilling	Yellow	Silver

* white lace for men

British Dragoons and Dragoon Guards, 1812

Unit	Title	Facings	Lace $
1st Dragoon Guards	King’s	Dark Blue	Yellow
2nd Dragoon Guards	Queen’s	Black	White
3rd Dragoon Guards	Prince of Wales’s	White @	Yellow
4th Dragoon Guards	Royal Irish	Dark Blue	White
5th Dragoon Guards	Prncs Charlotte of Wales's	Green	Yellow
6th Dragoon Guards	Carabiniers	White	White
7th Dragoon Guards	Prince Royal’s	Black	Yellow
1st Dragoons	Royal	Dark Blue	Yellow
2nd Dragoons	Royal North British	Dark Blue	White*
3rd Dragoons	King’s Own	Dark Blue	Yellow
4th Dragoons	Queen’s Own	Green #	White
5th Dragoons	vacant	--	--
6th Dragoons	Inniskilling	Yellow	White

$ Officer’s lace was gold or silver

@ 3rd D.G. changed facings to blue in 1815, then yellow in 1819

* Officer’s lace gold; men’s lace white until 1813, then yellow

#  sometimes described as blue-green