I have a question regarding the Colonel's colour carried by the Regiment de Dillon in the NYW and WSS that I hope someone can throw some light on.
There seems to be agreement that the Irish regiments in French service carried Ordonnance flags with a red cross bordered white, with canton 1 and 4 coloured red and cantons 2 and 3 coloured with the facing colours (usually). The Colonel's flag shows the same design but with the cross and cantons in white.
The exception seems to be Dillon, with some flag makers showing the Colonel's flag with a red cross on a white background with all the other details as with the other Regiments' Colonel's flags, and some other makers showing it as all White. Hall depicts it as an all white flag and the Project SYW shows that by the time of the SYW it was all white.
Does anyone have any insight on how the idea arose that the Dillon Colonel's flags was different to the other Irish Colonels' flags.