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Gules, three fleurs-de-lis two and one, overall a bend eradicated Argent: has anyone seen this terminology or this usage before?
I’ve not seen the term used in reference to a bend before.
It could, I suppose, be argued as a more or less logical extension of the term’s normal usage, but I have my doubts as to whether it might be considered a Good Thing (TM).
David B. Appleton
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Yes. See The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility ... By Thomas Robson p30google pic
It seems inappropriate to use the term eradicated with a broken inanimate object rather than a plant pulled up with its roots. Is it just me or does a broken ordinary seem out of place with the motto, EVER DEPENDABLE?
Why should eradicated not apply to an inanimate object, other than that we are less familiar with it? As Mike Swanson has shown, the term is not a new one.
As for the motto and the charge, the TIOH website explains that "The eradicated bend indicates the organization’s participation as combat troops in breaking the Hindenburg Line."
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"The eradicated bend indicates the organization’s participation as combat troops in breaking the Hindenburg Line."
this makes all the difference in the world for me. if it, or something like it, had not been the case then it would have been verry odd. but in this case it is OK for me.
