HISTORICAL FLAGS.
WHAT BECOMES OF THEM.
Britain is the only country which allows its historical flags to go into the pawnshop 1 or the auction-room. One such flag, after having waved over tihe 30th Foot for three years during tie great siege of Gibraltar, was actually found covering the eofa cushions of a tradesman's sitting-room ! In 1886 the Ist Battalion Gloucester -Regiment recovered from a pawnbroker at York four flags which it had borne frotm 1795 to 1810 through the Egyptian and Peninsula campaigns. There may be seen to-day in the Kendal parish church a pair of the old colours of the 2nd Battalion Border Regiment. Thgy were rescued in 1888 by Lord .Archibald Campbell from a London upholsterer, who had advertised them for sale as though they were mere .window curtains. To prevent old colours meeting with such fates, many have been cremated, with great ceremony, and the ashes care fully preserved in, a bos. Others have been buried with full military honours, among them being sets belonging to the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the 2nd Battalion. Worcester Regiment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8751, 13 October 1906, Page 4
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181HISTORICAL FLAGS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8751, 13 October 1906, Page 4
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