The Royal Norfolk Regiment was raised in 1685. The badge of "Britannia" was bestowed on the Regiment for its great bravery at the Battle of ALMANZA in Spain in 1707, during the Wars of the Spanish Succession. The Regiment earned the nickname "The Holy Boys" supposedly from the fact that an ill informed Spaniard, seeing Britannia on the Regiment's Colours during the Peninsular War, considered it to be a figure of the Virgin Mary such as is carried on banners in Roman Catholic countries during church processions.
Pictures left to right: Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion The Royal Norfolk Regiment 1944-45. Officer, The 9th, (The East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot, Corunna 1808-09. |
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