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(Created page with "''' {{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}} ''' History: A Gunnery Range at Wembury, Devon from 1940. Comissioned in 19956 and closed for live firing in 2001. [[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|350 px|Coat of arms (crest) of the {{PAGENAME}}]] {| class="wikitable" |+Official blazon |- |'''English''' |Per fess white and green; in chief the cornonte of a Royal Duke proper in base a cannon barrel traversed in fess gold.</br> Motto: Practice makes perfect |} ===Origin/meaning=== Named for th...")
 
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Named for the first Duke of Cambridge (19774-1850), indicated by the Coronet of a Royal Duke. The Gun Barrel symbolise the Gunnery Range. The Badge was approved in 1956.
Named for the first Duke of Cambridge (19774-1850), indicated by the Coronet of a Royal Duke. The Gun Barrel symbolise the Gunnery Range. The Badge was approved in 1956.


[[Literature]]: Image from picclick.com. Information from Admirality Ship Badges by T.P. Stopford.
[[Literature]]: Image from picclick.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.  


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