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Old 23-09-14, 06:31 PM
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There remains some sharp practice by some dealers selling 'OTC' badges which are in fact modern CCF badges and therefore still in production today.

These include:

Ampleforth wear the old OTC design in bronzed metal but with CCF title on a red backing.

Barnard Castle CCF wear the double shield badge in gilding metal.

Bloxham School CCF retain their own school design in a very yellow and shiny gilding metal. The CCF's NCOs wears the Rifles cap badge alongside the school badge. http://www.bloxhamschool.com/news-an.../ccf-camp.html

Christ's Hospital Have readopted their OTC badge design in metal. http://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/n...r-army-cadets/

Fettes College The school badge in silver finish.

Glenalmond School CCF CCf retains the old BW VB/ OTC design in white metal.

Kings School Rochester School CCF wear the old OTC design in shiny metal but with CCF title. http://www.kings-rochester.co.uk/CCF-centenary.aspx

Lancaster Royal Grammar School - School badge in gilt worn upon a Duke of Lancaster's beret. http://www.lrgs.org.uk/sites/default...ry-OTC-CCF.pdf

Liverpool College CCF - CCF wear the old OTC design but with CCF title.

Marlborough College has re-adopted their first pattern badge in black for the CCF. It is die-cast solid backed unlike the earlier die stamped badges. http://www.marlboroughcollege.org/ne.../#!prettyPhoto

Merchant Taylors School London the coat of arms design in metal with an anodised finish.

Oundle School still wear their badge on peaked caps but with Oundle School title only. A cloth version is worn on the beret.http://www.oundleschool.org.uk/extra...n%20parade.jpg

Portsmouth Grammar School - the most modern ones have Firmin marked sliders. The CCF wore lugged badges in the 60s and possibly later.

St Edmunds Canterbury Today still wear the OTC design with CCF title.

St Edmunds Ware Have commissioned a new CCF badge in the OTC design with the title scroll removed.

St Lawrence College CCF - modern metal with an anodised finish

Solihull School CCF - old design with CCF title.

Stowe School wear the OTC design in chrome and with a pin. : http://www.stowe.co.uk/news-and-even...tream-cup-2012 http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ctureid=108316

Stonyhurst College wear the OTC design in black and in chrome.

Sutton Valence School CCF wear the sheep badge in gilding metal. http://www.svs.org.uk/Senior-School-CCF.aspx

Uppingham School CCF are wearing the Upppingham tiger in bronze

Wellington School Somerset wear the OTC design in gilding metal.
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Old 03-02-15, 01:59 PM
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Kimbolton School is another one ( sometimes sold as Huntingdonshire Cyclists or Home guard)
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Old 20-03-15, 07:20 PM
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You can spot the Marlborough college a mile away .The early examples are die struck the one worn at present is cast - photo in gallery and my album

Some items to Marlborough cadets in my collection
H.P Marlborough college cadet corps wm sgt
H.P Marlborough college cadet corps b/b
Marlborough college cadet corps b/b lugs-die struck
Marlborough college O .T.C corps slider
Marlborough[ mitre ] B/B BR A/A on lugs
Marlborough college cadet corps cast modern issue[obtained from the college]

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Old 26-04-15, 02:47 PM
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http://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/n...r-army-cadets/

They have returned to wearing their old design in metal having worn cloth badges since the '80's.
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Old 23-07-15, 05:10 PM
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2 pictures of Sutton Valance badges. The old OTC design and the modern CCF one. The CCF one has a pointed snout and all 4 hooves touch the ground. Dealers please take note!

The school archives show that the WW1 era badge was bronzed but worn with brass tunic buttons.

https://issuu.com/suttonvalenceschoo...k_october_2014
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Old 25-10-15, 08:28 PM
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The OTC design with CCF title but now with the RRF hackle.
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Old 13-03-17, 08:32 PM
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I have been looking into Downside CCF badges and here is proof that the 2nd pattern badge shown in K&K is not OTC but CCF.

The brass shield version with OTC title is recorded by EJ Martin in 1938.

CCF badge still worn with k/c today by senior cadets.
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Old 26-03-18, 07:25 PM
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The OTC design but now a CCF badge in use today
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Old 24-07-19, 02:47 PM
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From the Bloxham history:

Successive Ministry of Defence orders, issued at the speed of drill commands in 1967 and 1968, reduced the size and altered the character of the corps. It became affiliated to the Royal Green Jackets, losing its distinctive brass cap badge of the school arms and the black and white shoulder
flashes, though the former has been restored in 1977.
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The OTC design but now a CCF badge in use today
at last nov rememberance parade in barnard castle one cadet was in no2 uniform he wore a double shield badge in his beret but rifles collor badges which he claimed they had adopted in memory of the d.l.i. when my dad went the school in the 20s he wore a green howards badge!
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Old 27-03-20, 04:47 PM
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at last nov rememberance parade in barnard castle one cadet was in no2 uniform he wore a double shield badge in his beret but rifles collor badges which he claimed they had adopted in memory of the d.l.i. when my dad went the school in the 20s he wore a green howards badge!
Barnard Castle is on the list of CCFs affiliated to the Rifles.
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