Editing Board of Ordnance (section)

===Coat of Arms===
[[File:New Armoury, June 2014 (6).JPG|thumb|Full coat of arms, with crest and supporters, at the Tower of London]]
The Arms of the Board of Ordnance first appeared in the seventeenth century, and were given royal approval in 1806, confirmed by a grant from the [[College of Arms]] in 1823. The [[blazon]] is as follows:<ref>[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mike.comerford/ORDNANCE/01.htm Reproduced copy of the grant of arms] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623233400/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mike.comerford/ORDNANCE/01.htm |date=2008-06-23 }}</ref>
*Arms: [[Azure (heraldry)|Azure]] - 3 Field Pieces in [[Pale (heraldry)|pale]], or; on a [[Chief (heraldry)|chief]], argent, 3 cannonballs, proper.
*Crest: Out of a mural crown, argent, a dexter cubit arm, the hand grasping a thunderbolt, winged and inflamed, proper.
*Supporters: On either side a Cyclops, in the exterior hand of the dexter a Hammer, and in that of the sinister a pair of Forceps, resting on the shoulder of each respectively, all proper.
*Motto: ''sua tela tonanti''. ['To the thunderer his weapons'; also more loosely translated as 'To the warrior his arms'].

The old Board's coat of arms is remembered today in the cap badge of the [[Royal Logistic Corps]], which has the shield at its centre (it was previously used, along with the Board's motto, by the [[Royal Army Ordnance Corps]]). The crest appears on the [[Ensign (flag)|ensign]] of the [[Corps of Royal Engineers]].