HOW THE COLDSTREAMS GOT THEIR MOTTO.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7144, 23 April 1885, Page 4

HOW THE COLDSTREAMS GOT THEIR MOTTO.

The Coldatreams were raised in the year IGSO, in the little town near Berwick-on-Tweed, from whence the regiment takes its name. Their first colonel was the renowned George Monk (afterwards Duke of Albermarlo), a general in the Parliamentary army and an admiral of the fleet. It is owing to this latter fact that a small Union Jack is permitted to be borne on tlie Queen's color of the regiment, a proud distinction enjoyed by no other corps in the service. In the year 1660 brave Monk and his gallant Coldatreamera materially assisted in the happy restoration of the English monarchy, and to perform this patriotic and eminently loyal act they inarched from Berwick-on-Tweed to London, meeting with a warm and enthusiastic greeting from the inhabitants of tbe towns and villages through which they passed. After the restoration was accomplished the troops were paraded on Tower Hill for the purpose of taking the oath of allegiauce to the King, and among those present were the three noble regiments that form the subject of this brief history. Having grounded their arms in token of submission to the new regime, they were at once commanded to take them up again as the Firßt, Second, and Third Regiments of Foot Guards. The First and Third Regiments obeyed, but the Coldatreamers stood firm, and their muskets remained upon the ground. " Why does your regiment hesitate ? *' enquired the King of General Monk. " May it please your Majesty," said the stern old soldier, '" My Coldstreamerß are your Majesty's devoted Boldiers, but after the important service they have rendered your Highness they decline to take up arms as Becond to any other regiment in your Majesty's service!" "They are right," said the King, u and they shall be 'second to none.' Let them take up their arms as ray Coldstream Kegiment of Foot Guards." Monk rode back to his regiment and communicated to it the King's decision. It had a magical effect. The arms were instantly raised amid frantic cries of "Long live the King!" Since this event the motto of the regiment had been Nulli Secundus, which is borne in gold letters upon its colors beneath the star and garter of the Royal House. There also appear upon its colors the names of Lincelles, Egypt (with the Sphynx), Talavera, Barrossa, Peninsula, Alma, Waterloo, Inkerman, and Sevastopol. In the year 1850 this regiment held its jubilee banquet to commemorate the 200fch anniversary of its birth.

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