HMS Canterbury was a C Class light cruiser 1915. She saw service in the First World War and the Russian Civil War built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland. HMS Canterbury was attached to the 3rd Battle Squadron in the Grand Fleet, and participated in the Battle of Jutland, assigned to the 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, operating as part of Harwich Force in the North Sea to defend the eastern approaches to the Strait of Dover and English ChannelIn 1917, she and the light cruisers HMS Centaur and HMS Conquest sank the German torpedo boat S 20 in the North Sea near the Shouwen Bank off Zeebrugge, BelgiumIn April 1918, HMS Canterbury was present at the great naval raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend. Later in 1918, she was assigned to operate in the Aegean Sea, where she served out the rest of the war.

Classed as an unofficial badge design, as the badge pre dates the standardisation of all Royal Navy badges that came into effect in 1919. Before the standardisation a senior rank or the crew itself decided on the design that would be on the badge. 

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