Ubique (poem)

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Plaque unveiled October 20, 1971 in King Street (Dundas, Hamilton, Ontario)

Ubique is a poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Boer War, published in The Five Nations in 1903.^[1] Ubique ('everywhere' in Latin) is the motto of the Royal Artillery^[2] and the Royal Engineers.^[3]

'Ubique' and 'Quo fas et gloria ducunt' are the mottoes of the Royal Engineers and the Royal Artillery. It was given to them by King William IV in 1832. The Corps does not have 'battle honours', like many other regiments in the British Army, instead they have 'Ubique' signifying their involvement in every battle ever fought since their formation by William the Conqueror over 900 years ago. Originally the two Corps were one and the same, hence the same mottos, they were divided in 1716.^[4] Unlike the Royal Artillery which is as old as the Engineers (and shares history with), The British Royal Air Force and Royal Corps of Signals were once part of the Royal Engineers, not becoming separate entities until 1912 and 1920 respectively.

References

↑ The Five Nations, The University of Newcastle, Australia
↑ "The Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Major General's Page". Zeitcom.com. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
↑ Royal Engineers
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Novels	The Light that Failed (1891) Captains Courageous (1896) Kim (1901)

Collections	Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) Soldiers Three (1888) The Story of the Gadsbys (1888) In Black and White (1888) The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888) Under the Deodars (1888) Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1888) From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel (1889) Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, poetry) The Jungle Book (1894) "Mowgli's Brothers" "Kaa's Hunting" "Tiger! Tiger!" "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" The Second Jungle Book (1895) "Letting in the Jungle" "Red Dog" All the Mowgli Stories (c. 1895) The Day's Work (1898) Stalky & Co. (1899) Just So Stories (1902) Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) Rewards and Fairies (1910) The Fringes of the Fleet (1915, non-fiction) Debits and Credits (1926) Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition (1940)

Poems	"The Absent-Minded Beggar" "The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"" "The Ballad of East and West" "The Bell Buoy" "The Betrothed" "Big Steamers" "Cold Iron" "Danny Deever" "The Female of the Species" "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" "Gentleman ranker" "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" "Gunga Din" "Hymn Before Action" "If—" "The King's Pilgrimage" "The Last of the Light Brigade" "The Lowestoft Boat" "Mandalay" "My Boy Jack" "Recessional" "A Song in Storm" "Sons of Martha" "Submarines" "The Sweepers" "Ubique" "The White Man's Burden" "The Widow at Windsor"

Short Stories	.007 The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly Baa Baa, Black Sheep The Butterfly that Stamped Consequences The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin Cupid's Arrows Drums of the Fore and Aft False Dawn A Germ-Destroyer His Chance in Life His Wedded Wife In the House of Suddhoo Kidnapped Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris Lispeth The Man Who Would Be King Miss Youghal's Sais The Mother Hive Ortheris The Other Man The Rescue of Pluffles The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo The Taking of Lungtungpen Three and – an Extra The Three Musketeers Thrown Away Toomai of the Elephants Watches of the Night Yoked with an Unbeliever

People	John Lockwood Kipling (father) MacDonald sisters (mother's family) Stanley Baldwin (cousin) Edward Burne-Jones (uncle) Edward Poynter (uncle) Alfred Baldwin (uncle)

Related	Indian Railway Library The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer The Law of the Jungle Rudyard Kipling bibliography Aerial Board of Control

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