SAPPERS MEMORIAL TRUST
MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL FOR MILITARY VETERANS ORGANISATIONS
OBJECTIVES
To entrench and empower the Sappers Memorial Trust as a “Historic Society” to preserve the Sapper history and honour and remember our Veteran Sapper Comrades who paid the highest price in service of their Country through preserving the Sappers Memorial and the Sappers Traditions and Culture associated with the Memorial on the terrain whereupon it is situated into perpetuity.
OPENING CREED
We Sappers, with common interests before the War,
Forged a bond of comradeship during the War,
Created our Association,
So as long as we are one, not one of us will be alone.
Before, During, Now.
We will remember those whose names lie in our Hall
closing creed
We pledge ourselves to ease the burdens and brighten the lives of all our members
as we grow older
Before during and now
We will remember those whose names lies in our Hall
nine flames
On 20 December 1944. His Majesty King George VI granted the South African Engineer Corps the privilege of wearing the badge of the Corps of Royal Engineers in a modified form in recognition of their outstanding work during the Second World War. The King expressed the wish that the original design of the badge bearing his sign manual be presented to the corps.
The device carries two extra flames, making nine in all, and it entitles the use of the motto ‘UBIQUE’ which the Corps now shares with the Royal Regiment of Artillery and the Corps of Royal Engineers. The device is known as heraldry as a ‘grenade fired’. Beneathe the scroll inscribed with the motto ‘UBIQUE’ and the letters ‘S.A.E.C.’ and ‘S.A.G’.