HMS Escort, Royal Navy

HMS ESCORT, ROYAL NAVY

Official blazon

English

Green; a Yeoman of the Guard couped at the shoulder proper with partizan white tasselled gold and hat black banded with roses alternately red and white. Motto: Fideliter

Origin/meaning

Yeomen of the Guard were appointed by King Henry VII of England in 1485 as Private Guards. The Bade was approved in 1933.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admirality Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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