The Colours of The East Surrey Regiment
(and its forebears the 31^st and 70^th of Foot)

Thirty-First Regiment (1st Battalion) 1802-1825

Figure 39

Sketches of this stand of similar size and design to its predecessor are held in the College of Arms. The King’s Colour now bears the saltire of St Patrick.

These colours were borne in action at the unsuccessful action against Rosetta, and also in Italy in 1814 at Albaro. They were lost at sea in the sinking of the troopship Kent in 1825, when the survivors of the 31^st were cared for so well at Chatham by the Royal Marines, thus cementing the close association between the 31^st (which had been formed originally in 1702 as Marines) and the Corps.

 

 

 

 

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