In the south-west corner of the Cathedral’s Chapel of St Michael and St George hang nine military flags of local association which have been laid up there. They are, in the picture above, from the left—Canterbury Rifle Volunteers: Queen’s colour and regimental colour, 1863; Canterbury Regiment: King’s colour, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions, 1917, and King's colour and regimental colour. 1923; Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry: Standard. 1868, and guidon, 1937. Details of the 2nd, 7th. and 9th of these flags are shown on the left, from top to bottom. The picture below shows the laying up of the 1923 colours on March 23, 1974.
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Press, 7 August 1976, Page 14
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103In the south-west corner of the Cathedral’s Chapel of St Michael and St George hang nine military flags of local association which have been laid up there. They are, in the picture above, from the left—Canterbury Rifle Volunteers: Queen’s colour and regimental colour, 1863; Canterbury Regiment: King’s colour, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions, 1917, and King's colour and regimental colour. 1923; Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry: Standard. 1868, and guidon, 1937. Details of the 2nd, 7th. and 9th of these flags are shown on the left, from top to bottom. The picture below shows the laying up of the 1923 colours on March 23, 1974. Press, 7 August 1976, Page 14
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