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A military badge collection, collected by Chief Warrant Officer H H Booker 2nd |
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The Life Guards of the United Kingdom |
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| The history of
the wearing of the Royal Coat of Arms as the badge of rank of the
Regimental Sergeant Major. It started with the Life Guards but
eventually spread as described below.
This has led to Australian & NZ Regimental Sergeant Majors wearing their respective national Coat of Arms as the badge of rank. see below |
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| Honi soit qui mal y pense (French for ‘Shame on him who thinks this evil’) appears on a garter which surrounds the shield on the Royal Coat of Arms. This garter symbolises the Order of the Garter, an ancient order of knighthood of which the Queen is sovereign. | Dieu et mon droit (French for ‘God and my right’) is the motto of the Sovereign and dates from the time of King Henry V (reigned 1413-1422). The motto appears below the shield on the Royal Coat of Arms. |
| Aust.(Coat of Arms) WO1 rank badges | NZ WO1 rank badges (Coat of Arms) |
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Royal NZ Infantry Regt. RSM |
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Scots Guards in the 1890s. |
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