Embroidered badge, Hood battalion, Royal Naval Division, 1916 (c)

Silk and canvas, showing the coat of arms of the battlecruiser HMS Hood. Depicts a Cornish crow on a striped torse, in front of an anchor, with two scrolls below, derived from the crest and motto of the coat of arms of Adm Viscount Hood, 1724 - 1816.
Scrolls: ‘STEADY / HOOD’

One of nineteen embroidered badges showing regimental insignia, made by soldiers when patients in a convalescent hospital during World War One, 1918 (c).