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LORD DROGHEDA'S "BLUES"
A RARE SET OF TWELVE COAT AND FOUR WAISTCOAT SILVER UNIFORM BUTTONS, Dublin c.1770, each with Hibernia and harp stamps and makers mark J.S, each engraved XVIII L.D...
LORD DROGHEDA'S "BLUES"
A RARE SET OF TWELVE COAT AND FOUR WAISTCOAT SILVER UNIFORM BUTTONS, Dublin c.1770, each with Hibernia and harp stamps and makers mark J.S, each engraved XVIII L.D within a laurel wreath, (c.3 troy ozs all in)
Charles Moore, 6th Earl of Drogheda, raised a troop of cavalry known as 'Lord Drogheda's Light Horse' to oppose the French Admiral Thurot who had captured Carrickfergus. This levy was regularised as the 18th Light Dragoons in 1763 as per the insignia on these buttons.
The blue uniform gave the sobriquet "Lord Drogheda's Blues". It saw service in the Napoleonic Wars as a regular regiment of the British Army.
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