NAM.2008-04-52-1

Regimental colour, 8th West India Regiment, 1795-1802 (c). Black silk, double sided colour; post-1801 Union flag in upper hoist canton; central motif of union wreath proper with embroidered roses, thistles and shamrocks; within which an appliqued crimson silk shield charged with the appliqued cypher ‘GR’ and ‘8th West India Regt’. The facings of the regiment in this period were dark grey, hence the black silk of the colour.