Awarded: April 1944
Blazon: In front of a Fountain proper a Torch Gules winged Or.
Link: The badge signifies learning by the torch and its connection with the sea by the fountain.
Motto: Latin: Scientia et armis – By knowledge and arms.
History: Formed at Carew Cheriton on 22 Oct ‘40, renamed Air Sea Warfare Development Unit on 1 Jan ‘45 and amalgamated with the Central Fighter Establishment and Bomber Command Development unit to form the Central Tactics & Trials Organisation on 30 Apr ‘68
In Memory of Wg Cdr H de V Leigh, inventor of the Leigh Light, whose development trials led to the first successful attack by a Leigh Light Wellington on the Italian submarine Luigi Torelli in the Bay of Biscay on 3 Jan ‘42.Sponsored by Air Cdre JH Greswell CB CBE DSO DFC.