Overall: 50cm (19.7in) x 65cm (25.5in)
Provenance: Major RC Carr-Gomm OBE
Sewn cotton with company badge and numeral scroll. Framed and glazed. The device on the present Union flag (an escarbuncle, a badge of Henry II (1133-1189)), ensigned by a Crown, was granted to the Coldstream Guards by George I in 1716. It is one of sixteen. borne on the Captain’s (Company Commander’s) company colours of the Coldstream Guards.
Major Richard Culling Carr-Gomm, OBE (1922-2008) was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards in 1941 and saw active service in North West Europe during the Second World War. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1944 and retired from the Army in 1955 to found a number of charities. He was descendant of the Coldstream Guards officer and Waterloo veteran Field-Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm, GCB, Commander-in-Chief in India, Constable of the Tower of London.
Source: Dawnay, N.P. (1975) ‘The Standards, Guidons and Colours of The Household Division, 1660-1973’, Midas.