Thanks Bart and welcome!!!
I have found the Napoleonic Forum to be really helpful. Replies sometimes come alsmost immediately which is pretty impressive. I had this vision of lots of Professorial types just hovering over their screens WAITING for someone to ask an obscure question about their chosen specialist subject
Perhaps not...
The very practical reason for asking is that my 56 figure 2nd Bn of the Fusilier Chasseurs (which had no eagle) required me to place my four Fanion bearers somewhere.. .I plumped for, you guessed it... in the middle of the front rank for each company!
Interesting that you should say some units had more than one fanion per company, I wonder what for??
Cheers
B