HMS Wilton, Royal Navy

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HMS WILTON, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Wilton, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English White; a Griffin's head erased green gorged with a chain pendant therefrom a bugle horn.

Origin/meaning

A Wiltshire Foxhunt founded 1869 first known as Carnbourne, and from 1897 Wilton. Its unclear from where the Griffin's Head come. It is not from the arms of the 4th Earl of Radnor Master of Foxhounds in 1869. Greeen and white is the livery Colours of Wiltshire. The badge was approved in 1941.

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

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