Awarded: August 1937
Blazon: The ‘Hawk of Horus’ Argent
Link: The badge represents a silver model of the ‘Hawk of Horus’ which belongs to the College.
Motto: Latin: Visu et nisu – By vision and effort.
History: Founded at Andover on 1 April 1922 and disbanded by being absorbed into the Joint Services Command and Staff College on 1 January 1997.
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Awarded: January 1970
Blazon: Shield: Argent on a Cross engrailed per pale Sable and Gules a Spear in pale surmounted in the fess point by an Annulet between two Bucks’ Heads caboshed all Or: On a Chief per pale Argent and Bleu Celeste to the dexter three Pales Sable and to the sinister a representation of the Constellation Aquilla Or all in a Bordure per chief Sable and Bleu Celeste.
Crest: On a Pilots’ Helmet proper within a Wreath Argent and Bleu Celeste out of an Astral Crown Or the ‘Hawk of Horus’ proper. Mantling: Bleu Celeste doubled Argent.
Motto: Latin: Visu et nisu – By vision and effort.
Link: Former students and staff at the RAF Staff College, Andover subscribed to the cost of this, the fourth Patent of Armorial Bearings to be granted to the RAF, to mark its amalgamation with the RAF Staff College, Bracknell and is based on a design submitted y the College. It incorporated the ‘Hawk of Horus’ and the College motto ‘Visu et Nisu’ as well as elements from College Founder and Marshal of the RAF, the Viscount Trenchard’s personal Arms ( three Pales Sable) and those of its first Commandant, Sir Robert Brooke-Popham ( the Cross). The use of the Constellation Aquilla represents the RAF Motto ’Per Ardua ad Astra’ and, in a major departure from tradition, the then Garter King of Arms, Sir Anthony Richard Wagner, personally approved the use of a Pilot’s Flying helmet instead of the Knight’s helmet to surmount the shield.
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