|
|
| Category: Badges |
|
|
|
|
|
|
New Zealand Cadet
Unit Badges |
|
|
|
 |
On 17 March 1911 a new Cadet Corps
was formed and was divided into Junior Cadets for boys from 12 to 14
years and Senior Cadets for boys aged 14 years and above. Each Senior
Cadet wore a fern leaf badge with the Unit's designated number in
the centre.
After the Great War the Cadet Corps gradually adopted the
badges of the Regiment or district to which they were attached. The General issue badge in use today
was first issued in 1950.
|
|
|
A really interesting Kiwi
badge is the one worn by the RF Cadets. SEE ABOVE LEFT. That badge is
the "Dickson Arms" in silver. That badge was originally worn
in brass by school cadet officer Instructors. Anyway, at the end of
WWII, they wanted to do something special for the opening of
parliament and they found a bunch of "Dickson Arms"
badges...they had them silver plated and they were worn on that
occassion. A couple of years later when the RF Cadets were formed,
they were unsure of which badge to issue them, they wanted something
"special" and one of the officers who had been on the
parliament guard remembered the silver dipped badges worn several years
earlier, and that was how the Kiwi RF Cadets came to have silver (later
chrome) cap badges with the "Dickson Arms."
|
 |
 |
 |
| Public
School Cadets (ED-VII) |
Junior
Cadets (GEO V) |
23rd
Cadets, note blank scroll |
 |
 |
 |
| 105th
Cadets, note blank scroll |
26th
Senior Cadets |
76th
Senior Cadets |
 |
|
 |
| Boys High
School Cadets |
|
|
-
This information is
provided as a guide only. No commercial decision should be based on
it.
-
Some details from
Badges & Insignia of the New Zealand Army by Geoffrey P Oldham.
I recommend any collector uses his publication ISBN 0-473-04378-5
-
I do not buy, sell,
trade or provide valuations. Any advice I gave may be commercially
worthless.
|
|
