ID PLEASE - INSULAE AUREAE PATRIAE SERVIUNT

[COOKIEMAN]

Contacted by an overseas museum requesting ID of an emblem recently donated. It is a DUI with the following motto?

 

INSULAE AUREAE PATRIAE SERVIUNT

 

Thanks

[ithaca37]

I can't find this in the ASMIC Motto Guide. The IOH site has no listing of this motto either. Maybe there's something in the second update of the Motto Guide that was in the Trading Post awhile back. I've only gotten copies of the first and third updates.

[MikeK]

Any chance of front and reverse pics to see if it's at least US? The obverse design and reverse hardware will give clues to help ID.

 

Regards

Mike

[COOKIEMAN]

Thanks for trying guys. I have exhausted all my sources also. Attached is a picture, no picture of the reverse is available. It sure looks like an American DUI to me, has all the elements for SAW and WW1 Service. At first glance, it looks like an Artillery Unit to me. Hope the photo helps somebody make an ID. Sure would like to help out the folks at the museum.

[John Cooper]

This is not my area but can clues be obtained from the design?

[hawk3370]

Thanks for trying guys. I have exhausted all my sources also. Attached is a picture, no picture of the reverse is available. It sure looks like an American DUI to me, has all the elements for SAW and WW1 Service. At first glance, it looks like an Artillery Unit to me. Hope the photo helps somebody make an ID. Sure would like to help out the folks at the museum.

 

There was a branch of service called "Insular Service" which had a batch of arrows super imposed on a pair of wings. Don't know if they had a "DI". The Insular Service came about in 1902 and was transferred to the Dept of Interior in 1939 I believe. It was responsible for controlling the various islands occupied by the US such as Cuba, Philippines etc. A shot in the dark but may be some ties.

Terry

[Sabrejet]

As far as I can figure out the literal translation is "The islands serve their country gold"...an odd sounding phrase!

[atb]

 

There was a branch of service called "Insular Service" which had a batch of arrows super imposed on a pair of wings. Don't know if they had a "DI". The Insular Service came about in 1902 and was transferred to the Dept of Interior in 1939 I believe. It was responsible for controlling the various islands occupied by the US such as Cuba, Philippines etc. A shot in the dark but may be some ties.

Terry

I have never seenrefernce to a DUI for the Bureau of Insular Affairs. That looks like a winged foot at the top rather than the Bureau of Insular Affairs BOS insignia if that is what reminds you of that branch besides the word "INSULAE" from the motto.

 

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[firefighter]

Looks familiar.I want to say a Field Artillery Rgt.Have to look around.

[rlyoun3910]

This crest has the features of the 107th Field Artillery Regiment, 28th Inf Division Pennsylvania National Guard. Looking at the upper quadrant, looks like a symbol denoting anti-aircraft artillery. Is there any possibility that this is a Coast Artillery or AAA derivative of a Pennsylvania National Guard unit? It is a screw back or pin back crest?--Ray

[Grant S.]

After a close look, the figure at the top looks like a winged foot to me. This brings to mind Nike, from which anti-aircraft follows, as Ray suggests. The red background obviously signifies artillery, the blue cross (saltire) represents service in the Civil War, the castle can be several things, but generally service in the Spanish War, the fleur-de-lis is for WWI France, and the lion at the bottom probably service in the War of Independence. The large white star can be most anything. It might indicate service as infantry at one time. I think the motto might be more like "The golden islands serve their country" but my Latin is very basic. So, were there any Nike sites in the Caribbean that could trace this kind of ancestry?

[rlyoun3910]

Nike or AJAX were almost everywhere. If in Pennsylvania then: Richboro, Bristol / Newportville/ Croydon, Village Green / Chester/Media, Edgemont/ Delaware City, and the list goes on. Does anyone have a POC for the PA NG or historian for the PA? This is a good pursuit. Every crest tells a story.--Ray

[heftaa01]

Here's a contact page for the Boalsburg PA Military museum. They might be able to help http://pamilmuseum.org/support/contact-us. Additionally you might try contacting Charlie Oelig at the PA Guard museum at Ft Indiantown Gap, he is the most knowledgeable person i've ever met on PA Guard history and units.

http://www.pngmilitarymuseum.org/index.html

 

Aaron

[denfly]

There is a story on this DUI in the latest issue of ASMIC The Trading Post July-Sep. 2014 and they too appear stumped. It is believed to be a mixture of 3 or more units to create that design and yes, it's possibly from units assigned to the isle of Bermuda. Unique.