THE ROYAL REGIMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 27 November 1915, Page 7

THE ROYAL REGIMENTS.

All British regiments which have the right to use the word "Royal" in their titles afe intensely proud of the privilege; it is one conferred upon them by a Sovereign as a mark of royal appreciation. All "Royal" infantry regiments, when in full dress, wear blue facings on their tunics and scarlet bands round their caps. Some of them also wear a little patch of red behind the cap badge, to distinguish them from the "common" or "garden" regiments, When in service dress.

Among the "Rjoyal" cavalry; regiments one of the most popular is, undoubtedly, the Royal Scots Greys, whose pjroud motto—"Nulli Secundis" ("Second to None") —is truly indicative'of their prowess. It is in this regiment that H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Cionnaught serves his cousin and his King in the capacity of a captain. But of all the distinctions conferred on "the Greys," the one lately bestowed on them is probably the most unique in its history—that of being converted from a cavalry to an infantry regiment.

Famous among. the "Royal" infancy regiments are the Warwickshires, the Rifles (the popular 60th), the Inniskilling Fusiliers, the West Surreys, Irish Rifles, the Royal Irish Regiments, the Dublin Fusiliers, the Liverpools, and the Lancasters.

Many cavalry regiments, too. besides "the Greys," have the prefix "Royal" in htelr titles, and also the Artilletry, Engineers, and Flying . Corps.