"Lord John Byrons regiment of foot - coat colours?" Topic

Hi Folks,

on the search for enlightenment, Im now looking around for any suggestions for Byron's foot coat colours- any suggestions?

My gut feelings are that since thay were formed in Ireland, they might possibly have been issued yellow coats

thanks for any ideas in advance

Chas

depending on when you want to model the regiment, they may or may not have a coat color that is known, or even a consistent coat color.

so you should probably add the date you want to model the regiment to your request.

Hi Chas,

not known I'm afraid!

Possibilities are greencoats, like the other regiments returning from Ireland that were re-equipped in Cheshire, yellowcoats as you say like the 'Irish' that were landed at Bristol.

Just possibly bluecoats as there is a cryptic reference to bluecoats 'sent back' to Liverpool on York March but I think these are more likely to have been Robert Byron's (though Washington's dragoons have been proposed), although both Byronses' regiments ended up in Liverpool eventually.

Saying that they could have easily had another coat colour, or be a motley crew! As usual whatever takes your fancy is probably the best answer.

hmm, intersting

fyi, looking at Byrons Regiment 1644, for the York march

Timbo, iirc Robert Byrons regiment are the 1000 strong musketeer regiment raised from garrisons in Ireland- so I assume mixed coat colours

also had a conversation with Dave Ryan of Caliver books recently- no record of tillers etc having green coats, I'm sure I ve read of the irish regiments beign issued with coats 'donated' from the local civillians

being Byrons- I'm thinking somthing reasonably 'smart/uniform' in appearence, but like you say Timbo, anything goes, and so far havnt got a yellow regiment yet!

picked up reids officers regiments of the royalist army at Derby this weekend- fantastic set of books

Chas

I always think if in doubt paint them grey. With this one though I think you could do whatever you liked.

Blue, grey, natural wool, red, yellow or unit of different coat colours.

I'd pick a variety, depending on when you may want to do a blue or red regiment as the Oxford regiments at one point in '43 I believe were issued all blue or all red 'suits'.

One way I like to do it is have the command stand – musicians, officers, ncos, etc – be more regimented, as thought they got the disctinct coats and made the rest of the regiment take the leftovers!

One nice thing about this is that you can mix and match, and still be historical, so don't get too hung up on uniformity as a stand, platoon, company, etc of one color next to one of another is probably the most historically accurate.

well HesseCassel,

the big advantage about Byrons re coat colours is that not being an Oxford Army regiment is that basically as Timbo says, anything goes!!

I usually tend to do officers/ensigns- smartish civvy stuff, and drummers in reverse colours

into uiforms, but could never do another nap army or 7yw army- way too regimented!!!

civil war all the way

me thinks we should all get together for a big game at some point

Chas