Swedish Cavalry Standards

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Örjan Martinsson

A typical Swedish cavalry regiment consisted of 1 000 men distributed on eight companies. Just like the infantry each cavalry company had their own standard with a pattern that was the same for the entire regiment, except for the colonel's company which had a white colonel's standard with the Swedish coat of arms in the middle and the regimental symbol in the upper inner corner. The pattern of the standards and been established in a regulation from 1686 and any standard made in accordance of this is called m/1686. According to this the company standards were to have the regimental symbol (the coat of arms of the province in which they were recruited) as the motif on one side and the Royal cipher on the other side. Because cavalry standards were more durable than infantry colours most cavalry regiments retained older standards than m/1686 all the way through the battle of Poltava. The older standards differs from m/1686 by having the regimental symbol inside a laurel wreath and numbers in the corners (showing the year the standards was made).

This page is actually a duplicate of a section of the page with Colour sheets for miniature figures. But since I don't yet have a proper page about the Swedish army's cavalry and dragoon standards, you will have to make do with the following pictures: