QUARTER-MASTERS,--to wear a crimson sash round their waists.
SERJEANTS,--to have narrow silver lace on the cuffs, pockets, and shoulder-straps; silver shoulder-knots, or aiguillettes, and blue and white worsted sashes tied round their waists.
DRUMMERS and HAUTBOYS,--clothed in scarlet coats lined with blue, and ornamented with royal lace with a blue stripe down the centre; their waistcoats and breeches of white cloth.
GUIDONS,--The first or King's guidon to be of crimson silk, embroidered and fringed with gold and silver; in the centre the rose and thistle conjoined and crown over them, with the motto _Dieu et mon Droit_ underneath: the white horse in a compartment in the first and fourth corners, and VII. D., in gold characters, on a blue ground, in a compartment in the second and third corners. The second and third guidons to be of white silk, in the centre the Queen's cipher within the garter on a crimson ground: the white horse on a scarlet ground in the first and fourth compartments, and VII. D. within a wreath of roses and thistles upon a scarlet ground in the second and third compartments.
The regiment was inspected at Birmingham, in October, 1751, by Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Honeywood; at Lichfield, in April, 1752, by Lieutenant-General Campbell; and at Manchester in April, 1753, by Major-General Cholmondeley. In October following it commenced its march to Scotland, and remained in that part of the kingdom upwards of four years, during which period the undetermined limits of the British territory in North America had given rise to another war with France.
Hostilities commenced in 1755, and the establishment of the QUEEN'S OWN dragoons was augmented to three hundred and forty-seven officers and men. A seventh troop was also added, of which Captain-Lieutenant William Erskine was appointed captain by commission dated the 25th of December, 1755, and the officers and men of this troop were mounted on small horses and equipped as _light dragoons_. The establishment of the light troop was fixed, by a royal warrant dated the 29th of January, 1756, at three officers, one quarter-master, two serjeants, two drummers, and sixty-three rank and file; but it was subsequently augmented to upwards of one hundred officers and men.