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Tower Hamlets Regiment of Foot of the London Trained Bands

Flag Illustration 1 1)
Flag Illustration 2 2)
Flag Illustration 3 3)
Active1643-
CountryEngland
AllegianceParliamentarian
ConflictsFirst Civil War
TypeFoot
ColonelBanks
Francis Zachery
William Chapman
Coat Colour
Area RaisedLondon
Flag ColourRed
Flag DesignWhite plates
Motto Iehova Providebit
White plates and Tower
Field ArmiesWaller 1644

Regiment of foot of the London Trained Bands

Service History

1644

Notes

A History of the Regiment is available online at The Tower Hamlets Trayned Bandes.

Flags

Three designs are known for the Tower Hamlets. Upto 1643 they used a red flags with white plates (Illustration 1), until 1647 red flags with the 'Iehova Providebit' motto, also differenced by white plates (Illustration 2)4), and from 1647 red flags with white plates and an image of the Tower of London (Illustration 3) 5).

Notable Officers

A list of officers is shown in Laurence Spring's Waller's Army, The Regiments of Sir William Waller's Southern Association The Pike and Shot Association 2007 ISBN 978-1-902768-34-2

Banks

Francis Zachery

William Chapman

Officer Lists

January 1643

Captains of the feveral Companies of the Trained Bands belonging to The Tower, to be a Regiment under the Command of the Lieutenant of The Tower.6)

September 1643

The Tower Hamlets Regiment of Trained Bands (7 companies)7)

October 1646

Lining the route of procession at the Earl of Essex's funeral12)

Tower Hamlets Red T.B.

Strength

See Also

The Tower Hamlets are re-enacted by The Tower Hamlets Trayned Bandes.

1) , 2) , 3) Flag image by kind permission of Wargames Designs
4) , 5) ECW Flags and Colours 1: English Foot, Stuart Peachey & Les Prince 1990, Partizan Press ISBN:0946525846
6) Journals of the House of Lords V 574
7) The London Trained Bands Mustered in Finsbury Fields 26 September 1643; Ensignes of the Regiments in the rebellious Citty of London, National Army Museum Ms 6807-53
8) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp359-360
9) , 10) , 11) One of these three officers was the Lieutenant Colonel
12) The Militia of London 1641-1649 PhD Thesis, Lawson Chase Nagel, King’s College, University of London, 1982.