Pages

▼

Thursday, 5 May 2016

Sir Thomas Astons Dragoons

Now then,

Heres the latest unit, a regiment of dragoons. I have had real difficulty trying to tie down a particular unit, and coat colours etc, so I gave up and just gave this unit yellow coats.


The flag is a generic one I found on the net, resized and printed off. I have decided that these will serve as Sir Thomas Astons Dragoon regiment.


There we go, another regiment done, and only one more left to do then the army is finished!

The army can be seen here - LINK

Cheers for looking,
Steve
at

9 comments:

  1. Unknown5 May 2016 at 22:48

    Very nice. Er......Cornet and coat colour is identical to Waller's Parliamentarian Dragoons...Ahem.... :-)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Stig of the Dump5 May 2016 at 23:12

      Really? I have seen Wallers regiment of dragoons, and from what I know they might have had yellow coats but ive never seen their flag. If you have a link to a source of info that would be cool.

      Cheers!
      Steve

      Delete
    2. Unknown6 May 2016 at 08:52

      Laurence Spring's 'Waller's Army: The Regiments of Sir William Waller's Southern Association" (2007) p149 "A Royalist spy [William Levert, 26 Sept 1643] recorded their colours as yellow with one to five black roundels as the devices"

      Stuart Reid's "English Civil War Flags and Colours Volume 3" has a plate depicting them on p151 and Richard Symond's notebook seems to back up Levert's

      Both publications available from Caliver Books.

      Hope that helps.

      Kev (aka Fat Wally)

      Delete
    3. Stig of the Dump6 May 2016 at 16:42

      Thanks very much Kevin, I will check them out. Its a problem I have come across alot with ECW colours etc, lots of different sources and sometimes nothing at all. I decided a bit of artistic license was in order!

      Never mind, they will serve the King well im sure

      Steve

      Delete
    4. Unknown6 May 2016 at 17:56

      The good thing though Steve is that no one can categorically say what is what, if, and exactly when. Coat colours, flags and devices change almost from campaign to campaign. I say go for it! :-)

      Delete
  2. Phil6 May 2016 at 10:02

    Top notch job, they look fantastic, I like this yellow so much!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Unknown8 November 2016 at 00:11

    Greetings ... you may like to our web site ...http://www.astonsdragoons.co.uk/contact.html
    Their coats were blue from 1644 up until then coat not issued , so "Russets" and greys. They had yellow and white ribbons as the regt favors. Cornets are are likly to have been yellow. I'm working on the book based on the unpublished regt accounts . Hope this helps. regards Gary (Aston's dragoons - Newlands troope)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Stig of the Dump8 November 2016 at 23:40

      Thanks for the info and the link Gary. Very interesting.

      Delete