cap badge, cap badge
Accession Number
NAM.1984-08-44-1
Description
Officer's cap badge, worn on the service dress, 1911. Worn by Col Edward George Cheke, Royal Artillery. Cast. A field gun upon a ground, the outside wheel of which is separately cast and mounted by means of a central pin through the badge. Above the gun, a frosted scroll bearing the burnished motto 'Ubique' and surmounted by a monarchial crown. Below the gun a frosted scroll bearing the burnished motto 'Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt'. The reverse bears the remains of three flat bronze fittings one behind the crown and one at either end of the lower scroll. In the centre of the scroll is the impressed maker's name 'J.R. Gaunt London'.
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