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Sir William Constable’s Southern Regiment of Foot
Active | 1642-44 |
Country | England |
Allegiance | Parliamentarian |
Conflicts | First Civil War |
Type | Foot |
Colonel | Sir William Constable |
Area Raised | |
Coat Colour | Blue lined White |
Red or Grey? | |
Flag Colour | |
Flag Design | |
Field Armies | Essex 1642-4 |
Parliamentarian Regiment of Foot serving as part of Essex’s army
Service History
1642
- 23rd October: Battle of Edgehill
- 13th November: Standoff at Turnham Green
1643
- April: Siege of Reading
- 11th August: Constable leaves for North
- 8th September: Relief of Gloucester
- 20th September: First Battle of Newbury
1644
- 1st March - 18th April: Service as dragoons under Col Cunningham (det)? (N.A. SP28/265/300)
- 29th March: Battle of Cheriton (det)?
- 24th April: Regiment reduced
Notes
Coats, Flags and Equipment
Issued blue coats in September 1642, they were next issued coats in August 1643, which were probably red or grey 1).
Notable Officers
Sir William Constable
Officer Lists
1642
- Colonel Sir William Constable (left regiment 11/08/43 to take up a command in the North)
- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Grame (Led regiment from 11/08/43 to 24/04/44)
- Major Henry Frodsham
- Captain Thomas Eure
- Captain James Breckham (Peckham)
- Captain John Fenwick
- Captain Simon Needham
- Captain Benjamin Cecil
- Captain Humphrey Jones (Fownes)
- Captain James Gray
- Captain William Hill (18/11/42 - 08/02/44)
April 1644 (As Lt-Col Grame is not mentioned in the pay receipts from which the following names are drawn, one of the new captains may have been leading his company as a Capt-Lt)
- Major Henry Frodsham
- Captain [Simon] Needham (Needham himself was absent serving as Lt Col of Constables northern regiment)
- Captain James Gray (30/07/42 - 15/04/44 then Lt Coll under Colonel Godfrey Bosseville)
- Captain [James] Peckham
- Captain John Clarke
- Captain Humphrey Fownes (30/07/42 - 15/04/44 then Capt under Col Richard Fortescue 15/04/44 - 19/09/44 (SP28/36/78))
- Captain John Dugdale (had previously been Lieutenant to Captain Eure
- Captain Arthur Young (possibly the man who had been Ensign to Captain Eure in 1642)
Strength
See Also
Links
1)
ECW Flags and Colours 1: English Foot, Stuart Peachey & Les Prince 1990, Partizan Press ISBN:0946525846