Coat of Arms
- Blazon
- Shield: Or on a saltire Azure between in fess a cross pattée and a five-bastioned fort Gules and in base a giant cactus Vert, two arrows in a quiver Proper crossed with a bolo Argent hilted Sable.
- Crest: On a wreath of the colors a lion passant guardant Or.
- Motto: NOLI ME TANGERE (Do Not Touch Me)
- Symbolism
- Shield: Service in the Civil War is shown by the blue cross from the Confederate flag and the red cross pattée, the badge of the 18th Division, V Corps, in which the regiment served during the greater part of that war. Service in the Mexican War is shown by the cactus; in the War with Spain by the five-bastioned fort, the badge of the V Corps in Cuba. The Indian campaigns of the regiment are shown by the arrows and quiver, and the bolo is for service in the Philippine Insurrection.
- Crest: The lion represents the Canadian campaigns of the War of 1812.
- Background: The coat of arms was approved on 6 June 1921.
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