Military Unit Mottos: United Kingdom

Royal Navy

  • Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth: Palmam qui meruit ferat (Let him, who has earned it, bear the palm)
  • Royal Marines (RM): Per Mare Per Terram (By Sea, By Land)
  • Special Boat Service (SBS): By Guile and Strength (formerly By Guile not Strength).

British Army

  • Offices
    • Master-General of the Ordnance Sua Tela Tonant ("Their weapons are thunderbolts")
  • Corps and Regiments
    • Royal Armoured Corps
      • Scots Greys/Royal Scots Dragoon Guards: Nemo me impune lacessit (No one wounds me with impunity)
      • The Queen's Royal Lancers: Death or Glory
      • Royal Tank Regiment(RTR): Fear Naught
    • Royal Regiment of Artillery: Ubique (Everywhere); Quo Fas Et Gloria Ducunt (Where Right and Glory Lead)
    • Royal Engineers: Ubique (Everywhere); also: Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense (shamed be he who thinks evil of it -- motto of the Order of the Garter)
    • Royal Corps of Signals: Certa Cito (Swift and Sure)
    • Infantry
      • Grenadier Guards Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense ("Shame to he who would think evil of it" - Motto of the Order of the Garter)
      • Coldstream Guards Nulli Secundus ("Second to None")
      • Scots Guards Nemo Me Impune Lacessit ("None may wound / 'touch' me with impunity" - Motto of the Order of the Thistle)
      • Irish Guards Quis Seperabit ("Who would separate us?" - Motto of the Order of the now dormant Order of St. Patrick)
      • Welsh Guards Cymru am Byth ("Wales forever") (Welsh)
      • Royal Regiment of Scotland Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (No One Assails Me With Impunity)
      • The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense {"Shame to he would think Evil of it")
      • The Duke Of Lancaster's Regiment: Nec Aspera Terrent ("Diffuculties Be [...]")
      • Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense ("Shame to he would think Evil of it" Motto of Order of the Garter)
      • The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) Fortune Favours The Brave
      • The Mercian Regiment Stand Firm and Strike Hard
      • The Royal Welsh Ich Dien (I Serve)
      • Royal Irish Regiment Faugh a ballagh (Clear the Way)
      • The Parachute Regiment: Utrinque Paratus (Ready for Anything)
      • The Royal Gurkha Rifles Kaphar hunnu bhanda marnu ramro (Better to die than live a coward)
      • The Rifles Swift and Bold
    • Infantry (Disbanded or Amalgamated Regiments)
      • Queen's Royal Regiment Pristinae virtutis memor (Mindful of former virtue)
      • Black Watch: Nemo me impune lacessit ( "no-one wounds me with impunity", Motto of the Order of the Thistle)
      • Gordon Highlanders Bydand ("Stand fast") (Scots Gaelic)
      • Royal Welch Fusiliers: "Ich Dien," I serve.
      • Queen's Own Highlanders Cuidich 'n Righ (Help to the King) (Gaelic)
      • The King's Regiment: Nec aspera terrent ("Not afraid of hardship"; motto of the House of Hanover)
    • Special Air Service (SAS): Who Dares Wins.
    • Royal Logistic Corps: We sustain
    • 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 Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME): Arte Et Marte (By Skill And By Fighting)
    • Royal Military Police Exemplo ducemus (We lead by example)
    • Intelligence Corps Manui dat cognitio vires (Knowledge gives force to the arm)
    • Honourable Artillery Company Arma Pacis Fulcra
    • Royal Military Academy Sandhurst: Serve to Lead

Royal Air Force

  • Royal Air Force (RAF): Per Ardua Ad Astra (Through Adversity to the Stars)
    • Royal Air Force Regiment (RAF Regt.): Per Ardua (Through Adversity)
    • Number 1 Air Control Centre (1 ACC): Ever Alert (Semper Evigilo)

Joint Schools & Academies

  • Royal College of Defence Studies: ????? (concord (or co-operation) strengthens the limbs/strength through unity)

Civilian Organisations

  • Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes NAAFI: Serving the Services
  • Cadets
    • Sea Cadet Corps (SCC): Ready, aye ready.
    • Army Cadet Force (ACF) To Inspire, To Achieve
    • Air Training Corps (ATC): Venture Adventure
      • 2387 (Pudsey) Sqn. Air Training Corps: We lead others follow
      • 2420 (Whitland) Sqn. Air Training Corps:Para Bellum (prepare for war)
      • 969 (St Helens) Sqn. Air Training Corps:The person is wise who looks ahead
      • 110 (city of york) sqn. Air Training Corps: Para Ad Astra (prepare for the stars)