HMS Mameluke, Royal Navy

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HMS MAMELUKE, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Mameluke, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English Blue; two mameluck swords in slatire proper hilted ivory guards beteween the baldes in chief a Mameluck head dress white.

Origin/meaning

Originally Caucasian Slave taken to Egypt as soldiers. They came to rule Egypt until they was Massacred in 1811 by Mehment Pasha of Egypt. The badge was approved in 1946.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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