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Old 12-04-17, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by manchesters View Post

I have 4 versions of the Hulme Grammar School badge.

The first is the all WM lions head (K&K 2576)

The second is the GM demi-lion and scrolls with H.G.S and Cadet Corps thereon (K&K 2577)

The 3rd is a GM demi-lion and scrolls as above but with H.G.S. and O.T.C. theron.

My 4th is just a Bz OSD badge of the second version

K& K also perpetuate the myth that this is in Oldham.
Just re-looking at this one. I have a theory (unsubstantiated) that K&K not only has the wrong school named but has the wrong sequence. I suspect that the order of use should be:

- Hulme Lion with cadet corps - worn from the cadet corps' founding in 1915.
- Then the OTC badge/s (K&K 2577) and the HGS/OTC version
- Then the single lion head nothing to do with the school cadets.

Thoughts?

Having gone through old copies of the School Magazine I have found an article in the 1938 edition that states that Hulme's Cadet Corps was elevated to OTC status in 1935.

The 1935 date is also here https://www.whgs-academy.org/Portals...BLQ20Heg%3D%3D

Last edited by Alan O; 20-04-22 at 07:10 PM.
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