"French Battalion staff pompon colours" Topic

What colour pompons did Battalion staff wear? I know that company staff had individual colours (purple, sky blue etc) but what about people like standard bearers, field rank officers. I'm guessing red but can anyone help?

White.

How about company grade officers? Company colors, or company colored pompoms with white plumes? I've never been able to get a grip on that.

Company officers would have the same pom-poms as their men. Fusiliers did not usually have plumes and the grenadier and voltigeur officers would have had plumes like their men (red and green/yellow respectively). Having said that, many colonels let their imaginations run riot so … who knows.

I confess I knee-jerked that answer this morning and now expected that there might be a bunch of corrections. That there are not, has got me second guessing myself so I looked around a bit and can't find my source.

What I did find is that nobody seems to know. Red is more commonly associated with the artillery and grenadiers and white has been more common at other levels of command it's probably a safer guess than red. I'll turn to the books shortly and see if I can find anything.

Of note, only the first battalion in the regiment carried the eagle. The other battalions had fanions. I've never seen reference to the latter having escorts of any kind.

Best information I have indicates Company colored up to including Captains; Chef de Battalion, maybe red plume* (*at least through 1811), maybe white. Colonel white plume.

Subject to ignoring regs., of course!

Thanks everyone. White it is.

Weren't the eagles or flags carried with (rather than necessarily by) the 2nd Fusilier Company (or whichever one had light blue pom-poms)?