Cameron Vintage Clan Crest Bonnet Badge
Cameron Vintage Clan Crest Bonnet Badge
Cameron Vintage Clan Crest Bonnet Badge – Circa 1940’s - 50’s clan crest – With clan motto
This is the older of the two crests the Clan Cameron uses and features the arm in armour embowed brandishing a broadsword
Size approx 40mm x 48mm
Motto. Pro Rege et patria - For King and country
Blazon. An Arm In Armour Embowed Brandishing A Broadsword Ppr.
Source. Fairbairn's Book of Crests, 1905 ed.
Clan Cameron
Clan Cameron is a West Highland Scottish clan, with one main branch Lochiel, and numerous cadet branches. The Clan Cameron lands are in Lochaber and within their lands lies Ben Nevis which is the highest mountain in the British Isles. The Chief of the clan is customarily referred to as simply "Lochiel".
The origins of Clan Cameron are uncertain and there are several theories.
Colonel Sir Donald Hamish Cameron KT 26th Lochiel (1910 - 2004), Laird of Achnacarry Castle
A manuscript of the clan says that it is old tradition that the Camerons were originally descended from the son of the royal family of Denmark who assisted the restoration of King Fergus II of Scotland, and that their progenitor was called Cameron from his crooked nose (Scottish Gaelic: cam-shròn, [ˈkʰamaɾɔːn]) – such nicknames were and are common in Gaelic culture, and that his dependants then adopted the name.
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