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Northamptonshire Regiment

 Holy Sepulchre is the Regimental Church of the Northamptonshire Regiment
originally raised as the
48^th and 58^th Regiments of Foot

 

 

 

 

 
Over the years the Colours (flags) of various Armed Forces' units
associated with Northamptonshire have been laid up in the church.

The Colours of the 1^st Battalion (formerly the 48^th Regiment of Foot )
were laid up on 14 July 1962 in the presence of
Her Royal Highness, The Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment.

The church then proudly displayed the following Colours :

48^th Queen's and Regimental Colour (1838-1889)
48^th Queen's and Regimental Colour (1889-1962)
3^rd (Militia) Bn. Queen's and Regimental Colour (1887-1925)
5^th (Service) Bn. King's Colour (1919)
6^th (Service) Bn. King's Colour (1919)
7^th (Service) Bn. King's Colour (1919)
1^st (Garrison) Bn. King's Colour (1919)
 


These Colours can be seen in the photograph above.  Through age, or having been carried into battles, some were in poor condition and so, more recently, most have been carefully preserved under a suitably inscribed stone slab
in front of the altar in the Warriors' Chapel.

The 48^th (1889-1962) pair remain on display, behind glass, in the Chapel:

Queen's Colour
(1889-1962)
1^st Battalion
the Northamptonshire Regiment (48^th Foot)








Regimental Colour
(1889-1962)
1^st Battalion
the Northamptonshire Regiment (48^th Foot)








A painting of the
Queen's and Regimental
Colours of the 1^st Bn
the Northamptonshire Regiment (48^th Foot)
(1889-1962)

 

 The earlier 58^th (1860-1962) pair were placed on loan at the National Army Museum on 17^th July 1962.  After they had been repaired at the Royal School of Needlework and carefully conserved they went on public display.  A few years ago they were returned to Northampton and can now be seen at the Regimental Museum in Abingdon Park.
These magnificent Colours were the last of any British Regiment's Colours
to be carried, unfurled, into batttle.

58^{th
Queen's Colour}


















58^{th
Regimental Colour}

A painting of the
Queen's and Regimental
Colours of the 2^nd Bn
the Northamptonshire Regiment (58^th Foot)
(1860-1962)

 

An even older set of Colours (below), presented to the 58^th in 1841,
were in very poor condition by the time they were replaced in 1860.
They are now preserved and on display in the
Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand.





The Queen's and Regimental
Colours of the 2^nd Bn
the Northamptonshire Regiment (58^th Foot)
(1841-1860)

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The Freedom of the Borough of Northampton

Granted to the Northamptonshire Regiment

8 June 1946

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Contact

Office: Church Lane 

Northampton, NN1 3NL 

Tel: 01604 627988 

Vicar: 01604 230316 

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Tel: 01604 754782