Michael Pollard's book says "White Cockade was first collected in 1820 by a Newcastle antiquary who had it published in Blackwood's Magazine"
The song passed into tradition and survived the rest of the century with subsequent collected versions little change. The regiment he maintains would likely be Northumberland Fusiliers

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Pollard ~ Pergamon Press Ltd 1969 Library of Congress Catalog Card 68~ 55958
08~ 013234 0 ? ISBN