King's Colour, 4th West India Regiment, 1795-1804 (c).
Double sided, silk colour; the ground is off white in colour with an applied thick red cross through the centre. There is embroidery depicting a floral, bow design in gold silk thread.
The 4th West India Regiment was raised in 1795 as Nicholl’s Regiment of Foot and served at Martinique (1809) and Guadeloupe (1810) during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-15) before disbandment in 1819. The regiment was re-established in 1862 going on to serve in the Gold Coast (1863-64), British Hondurus (1866) and Gambia (1866) before final disbandment in 1869.