collar badge, collar badge
Accession Number

NAM.1986-05-31-2

Description

Pair of officers’ collar badges, North Somerset and Bristol Yeomanry, 1965 (c), pattern first worn, 1957 (c). Silver plate metal. A ten pointed rayed star within a wreath of laurel, the topmost point displaced by a monarchial crown which rests upon a circlet in the centre of the star. Upon the frosted circlet the burnished Latin motto ‘ARMA PACIS FULCRA’ and within the voided centre an early pattern tank. Below the circlet and superimposed over the star and wreath a frosted scroll bearing the burnished motto ‘FEAR NAUGHT’. Reverse bears two loop fittings horizontally placed with brass split pin fitting.