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During the Napoleonic Wars, British regiments had a distinctive way of framing the buttons with lace. The lace was arranged in different styles, singles or paired, square or pointed, and woven from different coloured thread. Below you can see a reproduction of them with the unique combination of thread colours and pattern for each of them.

11th Regiment of foot - North Devonshire

As per C. E. Franklin - 1812 to 1815

12th Regiment of foot - East Suffolk

13th Regiment of foot - 1st Somersetshire

Up to 1802

From 1802

14th Regiment of foot - Buckinghamshire

15th Regiment of foot - Yorkshire (East Riding)

16th Regiment of foot - Bedforshire

17th Regiment of foot - Lercestershire

As per C. E. Franklin

18th Regiment of foot - Royal Irish

As per C. E. Franklin - 1812 to 1815

19th Regiment of foot - 1st Yorkshire

20th Regiment of foot - East Devonshire

TO BE CONTINUED

Source: Charles Hamilton Smith - C. E. Franklin