3-003-825 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Presentation of Colours to the 36th Regiment by the Prince of Wales at the Curragh Camp, 1861. The future King Edward VII at an army base in County Kildare, Ireland. Engraving from a photograph by Captain Fenton, of the 86th Regiment. 'The usual preliminary ceremonies having been gone through, and the colours consecrated by the Rev. Horace Wheeler, the Chaplain, his Royal Highness presented them to Ensigns Dumergue and Bond, speaking as follows: "Colonel Hort, officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the 36th Regiment, it affords me very sincere gratification, after having served for some months in the brigade to which you belong, to present those colours to you. Be assured that I shall ever look back to my intercourse with yourselves and the various corps composing the fine division assembled in this camp with feelings of unmingled pleasure, and I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of expressing my thanks for the cordial welcome given me on my joining the ranks for the purpose of obtaining a practical acquaintance with the duties of your noble profession. Time will not admit of entering into a detailed narrative of all the valuable services rendered by your regiment to their Sovereigns and country".' From "Illustrated London News", 1861.