Unknown Cadet force for ID please
 

Can anyone identify the badge on this young lads cap.It looks like "WSC".The tunic appears to have KRR or some other Rifles buttons. He has written on the back that this is about 1910 and he is 15 although he looks a lot younger. He later served in the RNAS on flying boats at Dover and then in France .the third picture has him on the right.Thanks in advance.

I cant help but they are great photos.

P.B.

Well,well! I've had this badge in my box for a number of years now and have never been able to ID it. I inherited it amongst a collection of police badges and had always assumed it may have been connected to the West Sussex/Suffolk Constabulary. Clearly not. The SC probably related to "School Cadets" but what does the "W" stand for?

Dave.

Its Great when two bits come together like this, just need that final clue.

I also think these are great photos (I can't believe that boy is as old as 15 though!) but can't help much I'm afraid.

The buttons certainly appear to be standard 'Rifles' pattern buttons worn by many OTC units (and others, of course).

In an article on "Buttons of the Officers Training Corps" written by Howard Ripley in the Military Historical Society Journal in 1976 he illustrated many distinct patterns of buttons worn by OTC units and concluded the article with "The following Contingents were treated as Rifles and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, they are assumed to have worn the universal Rifle button" (as this young man does). There followed a list of those Contingents with "Westminster School" and "Wilson School" being the only two beginning with a "W".

I put this forward just as a vague possibility that the young man may have been in one of these two units.

Roger