they continued to appear in the Army List, but they were not activated during World War II and were all formally disbanded in April 1953. Commanders The commanders of the regiment, as Colonel or (after the 1852 reforms) as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, included the following: Col Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, appointed 29 June 1778 Col Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, appointed 4 December 1819 Lt-Col Commandant Hon Henry Edward Hall Gage, promoted 5 February 1863 Lt-Col Commandant John Aldridge appointed 27 October 1875 Lt-Col Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March (later 7th Duke of Richmond), promoted Lt-Col (to 2nd, later 4th Bn) 28 June 1876, appointed Lt-Col Commandant 9 July 1887 Lt-Col R. Stephenson Clarke, promoted 28 May 1906 Lt-Col Cecil G.H. Alers Hankey, promoted 23 April 1913 The following served as Honorary Colonel: Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, appointed 27 May 1906 Heritage and ceremonial Uniforms and insignia From its re-foundation in 1778 the regiment's uniform was red with blue facings, though the facings changed to red by 1800. Blue facings were reintroduced later, certainly when it became a royal regiment. The clothing regulations were changed in 1798, introducing coats without lapels. However, the Sussex Militia still had 395 of the old pattern coats unused in store in 1802, and had to seek special permission to have another 203 more made, so that the whole regiment could be issued with coats of the same pattern. The regiment adopted the star of the Order of the Garter as its badge, probably after the Duke of Richmond became a Knight of the Garter in 1782. The officers' silver oval shoulder-belt plates in 1810 carried the Royal cypher within a crowned garter bearing the motto 'Honi soi qui mal y pense', with the title 'Sussex' on a scroll underneath. From about 1847, after it became the Royal Sussex Light Infantry, these plates carried a silver light infantry bugle horn (the coiled huntsman's horn) within a gilt garter and laurel wreath, with the title 'Royal Sussex Regt' on the garter, the whole mounted on an eight-pointed star. The shako plate of this period had the Garter star within the strings of a bugle horn, with a scroll inscribed 'Royal Sussex' beneath. The coatee buttons of 1840–55 had an eight-pointed star within a garter inscribed with the name of the regiment. The later tunic buttons had Saint George's Cross in the centre