Ensigns

Captain Lieutenant Clerk of the Cheque Ensign Exon

Lt Col Johnny Moss MBE - Welsh Guards

The third officer - the Ensign - was added by Charles II, and it may fairly be Details of the Standard shows the badge of the House of Windsor, which did not exist until it was created so that it could represent the House of Windsor on the Standard of the Body Guard

Details of the Standard shows the badge of the House of Windsor, which did not exist until it was created so that it could represent the House of Windsor on the Standard of the Body Guard

assumed that when appointed he had to do an ensign’s duty, namely, to carry the Banner or Standard of the Corps. Diligent search has more than once been made for this Standard, but it is not forthcoming. Thom, in his Book of the court when speaking of the duties of the Ensign of the Guards says: - “But, though such an appointment was then (1668) made and has, continued ever since, there does not exist the smallest evidence that the Corps ever possessed either Banner or Standard.” The late learned antiquary could not, at the time he wrote his, have seen the Order Book of the Guard at St James’s Palace, for one of the first entries therein is as follows:- “In consequence of the death of Mr Jno Glover, late Secretary of the Earl of Macclesfield, his lordship ordered that the Standard, Books, &c belonging to the Corps and kept by him be now given up, and that they be considered in future the property of the Corps, and kept as such by the

A Painting of the 1938 Standard of the Body Guard. Signatures to the sides of the design shows that it was approved by George VI, the Royal College of Arms on 20 May 1938 and based on a design drawn by Gerald W Wollaston - Garter - Inspector of Regimental Colours.

Secretary for the time being.” The Captains was appointed Captain in 1804, and the great fire in St. James’s Palace occurred 21 January 1809: it's reasonable, therefore, to suppose that the Standard was amongst the property destroyed. According to Chamberlayne’s Anglice Notitia for 1672 the Standard of the Guard was “a Cross of St George and likewise four bends”, but the colours of the field and the charge are not given. By the regulations now in force the Ensign before appointment must have held a commission as a lieutenant-colonel or major in the army or marines or in the Indian army.
Edited from A History of the Yeomen of the Guard 1485 - 1885

1	1668	Edward Sackville Esq	22	1869	Lt Col Arthur Need VC
2	1678	Thomas Howard Esq	23	1870	Col Hon William J Colville
3	1685	Henry Dutton Colt Esq	24	1888	Lt Col Henry Hume CB
4	1689	Thomas Maule Esq	25	1892	Lt Col Sir RG Ellison CB *2
5	1690	Robert Sawyers Esq	26	1908	Maj Sir EH Elliott MVO *3
6	1700	Robert Uphill Esq	27	1926	Maj Colin MacRae CBE *4
7	1715	Thomas Windham Esq	28	1932	Lt Col GR Lascelles CVO CBE
8	1716	Andrew Charlton Esq	29	1937	Lt Col ED Frederick
9	1735	Edward Le Grand Esq	30	1950	Maj Gen Sir AHS Adair Bart CB DSO MC
10	1746	Savile Cockayne Cust Esq	31	1951	Lt Col VB Turner VC
11	1763	Cheret Jones Esq	32	1955	Brig Gen WG Carr DSO
12	1779	Jonothan Benjafield Esq	33	1970	Col HT Brassey OBE MC
13	1783	Henry Murray Esq	34	1971	Col AB Pemberton MBE
14	1783	Richard Fowler Rickard Esq	35	1979	Maj Bruce Shand MC
15	1796	Shurkbrugh Ashby Apreece	36	1985	Col Greville Tufnell
16	1804	Brevet Lt Col William Jepson	37	1987	Col Shaun Longsdon
17	1808	Augustus Atkins Esq	38	1993	Maj Charles Marriott
18	1830	William Conyngham Burton	39	2002	Maj Charles Enderby
19	1835	Capt George Houlton Esq *1	40	2006	Maj Tom Wills
20	1862	Lt Col Jonothan Henry Cooke	41	2007	Lt Col Johnny Moss MBE
21	1866	Col William Barton Parnell CB

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