HMS Orestes, Royal Navy
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HMS ORESTES, ROYAL NAVY
Official blazon
White; a goat's erased black armed gold pierced through the neck by a sword fesswise red pommel and hilt black.
Origin/meaning
King Agamemnon had been murdered. His Son Orestes then obatined vengeance by killing the attackers; his Mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus (Aegis is Greek for goatskin). The badge was approved in 1943.
Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admrialty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford