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Originally Posted by Bill A
In perusing Jon Mill's Badges on Battle Dress, he notes on pg 82 that the Border Regiment's flash included green, yellow and purple. Does anyone know the significance of the colours, in particular the purple?
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Yellow was the facing colour of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment and the 55th (Westmoreland) Regiment had facings of green.
Purple. It appears that no one knows for sure. Here is a view from the regimental museum in Carlisle.
"The purple colour appeared after 1881 in Border Regimental ties, blazers, caps, etc and we think was introduced to be more distinctive, because a number of other regiments post-1881 had green and yellow as their regimental colours.
With thanks to Stuart Eastwood, Museum Curator, The Regimental Museum of the Border Regiment and the Kings Own Royal Border Regiment."