Regimental Information and History

Colonel-in-Chief

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and
Earl of Chester, KG, KT, GCB, AK, QSO, ADC

Reproduced from the painting by Norman Hepple, RA, RP
 
 

Colonel of  The Regiment

Brigadier K Skempton CBE
 

The Regimental  Colours

The Regiment has two Colours, the 'Queen’s' and the 'Regimental'.

The Queen’s Colour is the Great Union or Union Flag. On it are inscribed twenty of the battle honours gained in the Great Wars.

The Regimental Colour is of buff silk. In the centre is a circle, within which is the Regimental Badge, 'An acorn, leaved and slipped.' Around the circle is the title 'The Cheshire Regiment.' Surrounding the circle is a wreath of roses, thistles and shamrock on one stalk representing the union of England Scotland and Ireland. Above the circle is the Royal Crown. On this Colour are inscribed the battle honours won prior to the two Great Wars.

The present Colours were graciously presented to the lst Battalion by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on the Roodee in 1989.

BATTLE HONOURS
 

Borne on Regimental Colour:
‘Louisburg’, ‘Martinique 1762’, ‘Havannah’,
‘Meanee’, ‘Hyderabad’, ‘Scinde’,
‘South Africa 1900-02’
 

Borne on the Queen’s Colour:
‘Mons’, ‘Ypres 1914, 15, 17, 18’, ‘Somme 1916, 18’,
‘Arras1917, 18’, ‘Messines 1917, 18’,
‘Bapaume 1918’, ‘Dorian 1917, 18’, ‘Suvla’,
‘Gaza’, ‘Kut al Amara 1917’

1939-45
‘St. Omer-La Bassee’, ‘Normandy Landing’,
‘Capture of Tobruk’, ‘El Alamein’, ‘Mareth’,
‘Sicily 1943’, ‘Salerno’, ‘Rome’, ‘Gothic Line’,
‘Malta 1941-42’