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(Created page with "''' {{uc:{{PAGENAME}}}} ''' [[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|350 px|Coat of arms (crest) of the {{PAGENAME}}]] ===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 19...") |
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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 | 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 | [[Literature]]: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admrialty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford | ||