Patch, Military
Object
- Accession Number
- OBJ_0031273
- Classification
- Status Symbols
- Culture
- Canadian
- Date
- 1919 – 1952
- Description
- There is a beaver on the crest and a crown on the top section; "Honi soit qui mal y pense" sometimes rendered as "Honi soit quy mal y pense", "Hony soyt qe mal y pense", "Hony soyt ke mal y pense", "Honni soit qui mal y pense", "Hony soyt qui mal pence" and various other phoneticizations, is the motto of the English chivalric Order of the Garter. It is also written at the end of the manuscript Sir Gawain and the Green Knight but it appears to have been a later addition.[1] Its literal translation from Old French is "Shame be to him who thinks evil of it",[2] although it is sometimes re-interpreted as "Evil be to him who evil thinks".[3]
- Description
- There is a beaver on the crest and a crown on the top section; "Honi soit qui mal y pense" sometimes rendered as "Honi soit quy mal y pense", "Hony soyt qe mal y pense", "Hony soyt ke mal y pense", "Honni soit qui mal y pense", "Hony soyt qui mal pence" and various other phoneticizations, is the motto of the English chivalric Order of the Garter. It is also written at the end of the manuscript Sir Gawain and the Green Knight but it appears to have been a later addition.[1] Its literal translation from Old French is "Shame be to him who thinks evil of it",[2] although it is sometimes re-interpreted as "Evil be to him who evil thinks".[3]
- History of Use
- This blazer badge was worn on a civilian blazer. It was worn while the individual was in active service and not wearing a uniform, but when it was still appropriate to wear military insignia.
- Record Rights
- Digby House
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