The Flags of Montrose's Irish Brigade (Part Two)

Having now gotten my hands on the excellent little booklet, Scots Armies of the 17th Century. The Royalist Armies 1639-46 by Stuart Reid I have spent the last few days working on the flags of Montrose's Irish.

The second sheet of wargame flags in the series is now ready and carries the image of Montrose and the quotation from,My Dear and Only Love, which will be a feature of these particular sheets of model flags to help identify them in listings etc.

This particular sheet includes the blue flag with the Virgin and child crushing the head of a serpent and the white flag bearing a blood red crucifix in the Irish style.

My reasoning for the Celtic Cross rather than a simple Crucifix is that having grown up near an  old Chapel in County Tyrone I remembered the  graveyard was full of Celtic crosses rather than the standard crucifix. So would it not make sense to have this style of Cross emblazoned on the Standard of Irish soldiers of the 17th Century. It certainly gives the flag a lot more flair.

You can see the previous sheet in the series HERE

The Flags of Montrose's Irish Brigade Now Available From Battle Flag

The latest sheet of 25mm wargame flags in Battle Flags English Civil War series of flags represents two of the banners carried by the Irish of Montrose’s Irish Brigade.


The first shows Christ carrying the Cross on a green field and the second the medieval pictogram IHS is emblazoned on a red field.


This is the first of six sheets of wargame flags covering the colourful flags and banners of Montrose’s Regiments of Irish.

1st Corps to Raise the Standard for Battle Flag at Phalanax Wargame Show

Battle Flag gets it official UK launch at the Phalanx Wargame Show in St Helens on Saturday 19^th 2010 at the 1^st Corps trade stand.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, well it is for me… first show and all,  you will be able to purchase for the first time ever Battle Flags all new 15 mm English Civil War sheet of 17 Parliamentarian flags.

The full range of wargame and collectors flags from Battle Flag in 15mm and 25mm will be available to view and purchase at Phlanax from the lads of 1^st Corps.

1st Corps will be selling the full range of flags from Battle Flag at this and other prestigious wargaming shows and events throughout the UK for the rest of 2010.

New 25mm English Civil War Flags from Battle Flag. The Irish in the Service of the King

I got to see some of the excellent English Civil War Irish figures from Warlord Games Pike & Shotte range of miniatures the other week and, being from the fair isle of Erin myself, was immediately inspired to create a series of wargame flags for my ancestral forefathers who fought for King and Country in Englands Civil War.

Bring on the Irish Charge!