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The Royal Canadian Regiment
London, Ontario
Confirmation of the blazon of a Badge
June 20, 2008
Vol. V, p. 309
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Blazon
Badge
On an eight-pointed diamond-cut star Argent a bezant inscribed VRI, the Cypher of Queen Victoria, in letters Argent and encircled by a rope Or surmounted in chief with the Royal Crown proper;
Motto
PRO PATRIA;
Symbolism
Badge
The star is a customary infantry badge shape from the 19th Century. King George V granted the regiment the right to wear in perpetuity Queen Victoria’s cypher “VRI” in memory of the sovereign under whose reign the regiment was raised and in view of the services the regiment rendered in the Great War.
Motto
PRO PATRIA, meaning “For my country”.