17th Company Colour


The crowned white falcon holding a sceptre standing on a tree strump from which is sprouting a branch with one white and two red roses.' This is from Elizabeth I's mother Anne Boleyn.' The tree stump, or root as it is sometimes named symbolised new life coming from the old finished line.'


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