Military Unit Mottos: United Kingdom

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• British Army
  • Offices
    • Master-General of the Ordnance Sua Tela Tonant ("Their weapons are thunderbolts")
  • Corps
    • Royal Regiment of Artillery: Ubique (Everywhere); Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt (Where Right and Glory Lead)
    • Royal Tank Regiment(RTR): Fear Naught
    • Intelligence Corps Manui dat cognitio vires (Knowledge gives force to the arm)
    • Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC): In arduis fidelis (Faithful in adversity)
    • Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC) Sub Cruce Candida (Under the White Cross)
    • Royal Corps of Signals: Certa Cito (Swift and Sure)
    • Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME): Arte Et Marte (By Skill And By Fighting)
    • Royal Logistic Corps: We sustain
    • Royal Military Police Exemplo ducemus (We lead by example)
    • Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes NAAFI: Serving the Services
  • The Brigade of Foot Guards by Seniority
    • 1st Grenadier Guards Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense ("Shame to he who would think evil of it" - Motto of the Order of the Garter)
    • 2nd Coldstream Guards Nulli Secundus ("Second to None")
    • 3rd Scots Guards Nemo Me Impune Lacessit ("None may wound / 'touch' me with impunity" - Motto of the Order of the Thistle)
    • 4th Irish Guards Quis Seperabit ("Who would separate us?" - Motto of the Order of the now dormant Order of St. Patrick)
    • 5th Welsh Guards Cymru am Byth ("Wales forever") (Welsh)
  • Regiments
    • Black Watch: Nemo me impune lacessit ( "no-one wounds me with impunity", Motto of the Order of the Thistle)
    • Cumberland Highlanders Cos Cheum Nach Gabh Tilleadh (Our footsteps will not allow us to go backwards) (Gaelic)
    • Gordon Highlanders Bydand ("Stand fast") (Scots Gaelic)
    • Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense {"Shame to he would think Evil of it" Motto of Order of the Garter}
    • Royal Welch Fusiliers: "Ich Dien," I serve.
    • Royal Irish Regiment Faugh a ballagh (Clear the Way)
    • Queen's Own Highlanders Cuidich 'n Righ (Help to the King) (Gaelic)
    • Queen's Royal Regiment Pristinae virtutis memor (Mindful of former virtue)
    • The King's Regiment: Nec aspera terrent ("Not afraid of hardship"; motto of the House of Hanover)
    • Scots Greys/Royal Scots Dragoon Guards: Nemo me impune lacessit (No one wounds me with impunity)
    • The Queen's Royal Lancers: Death or Glory
  • Special Operations Units
    • Special Air Service (SAS): Who Dares Wins.
    • Special Boat Service (SBS): By Strength and Guile.
    • Special Reconnaissance Regiment(SRR): Reconnaissance.
• Royal Navy (RN)
• Royal Marines (RM): Per Mare Per Terram (By Sea, By Land)
• Royal Air Force (RAF): Per Ardua Ad Astra (Through Adversity to the Stars)
• Schools & Academies
  • Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth: Palmam qui meruit ferat (Let him, who has earned it, bear the palm)
  • Royal Military Academy Sandhurst: Serve to Lead
  • Royal College of Defence Studies : ????? (concord (or co-operation) strengthens the limbs/strength through unity)