Cape Garrison Artillery - Regimental Symbols

Regimental Symbols

  • As the Garrison Artillery and Engineer Volunteers (1891–96), the original regiment used the Cape Colony coat of arms and motto ("Spes Bona") as its badge.
  • Later, it adopted the standard artillery badge of a crowned field gun with the motto Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt (Where Right and Glory Lead).
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, the current regiment wore the South African Artillery badge - also a field gun, but without the crown - with the coat of arms of the University of Cape Town on the wheel of the gun. Since the 1970s, the badge has been a field gun topped by a three-towered castle.
  • The regiment's coat of arms, worn as a shoulder flash, is a shield which depicts a golden castle against a background divided per pale (vertically) into red and sky blue. It dates from the 1970s.

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