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| | Military Prints , Blues and Royals |
 | | At Waterloo, again, where they fought without cuirasses and in brass helmets, red swallow tailed coats, and light blue pantaloons, they bravely attacked the French Lancers and Cuirassiers, and in 1816 were rewarded by a silver medal issued to the officers and men. |
| | Cuirasses were resumed in 1821, the head dress was a steel helmet with an enormous coloured woollen crest, and this by 1836 had been replaced by a bearskin grenadier cap with a plume of feathers passing over the crown. |
| | The Queen's colour, of crimson, bears the Royal Arms, V.R., and the battle roll; the second has the rose, thistle, and shamrock crowned in the centre, with V.R. on either side. |
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