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| | |Barry wavy of ten white and blue; on a mount green a fir tree fructed proper.</br> | ||
Motto: Pugnamibus in littoribus | |||
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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
A City on Sicily taken by the Allies in 1943. The Motto translates as "We will fight them on the beaches". The Badge was approved in 1947. | |||
[[Literature]]: Image from ebay.com | [[Literature]]: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford. | ||
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[[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Navy heraldry]] | [[Category:Navy heraldry]] | ||
[[Category:Fir Trees]] | |||
[[Category:Granted 1947]] | |||