St Ignatius College KK 2672

[dubaiguy]

Yesterday on an online auction I noted a lot with three St Ignatius College badges. One similar to mine below with yellow/green enamel banding and two with with red/green banding.

KK describe the red/green banded badge as JTC (KK2672) but with the 2nd and 3rd quarters in bronze. Those at the auction looked white metal to me as is mine.

I'd really like to believe that the red/green and yellow/green banded badges with the 2nd and 3rd quarters in w/m are all JTC. But why the different colours and why are the quarters in w/m and not bronze as described by KK? Are they in fact just school badges, or perhaps an omission by KK?

Any other thoughts?
Mark

[Alan O]

My opinion is that they are all school badges that were sewn on to school caps.

It's possible the Cadet Corps used them in lieu of cap badges but the trend for the JTCs was the removal of school badges and the adoption of regular army cap badges.St Ignatius College badges.

There is a dearth of information about the CCF's history. There are numerous errors in K&K's chapter on school badges and I think that this is one of them.

[leigh kitchen]

Would the different colours on the badges simply be "house" colours?

[Alan O]

Not house colours but both have heraldic significance relating to the founders.

[dubaiguy]

Thanks Alan. Your considerable knowledge of OTC/cadet badges is very welcome. Perhaps documentary proof may turn up one day for their use by the JTC/CCF at some stage, but I'm resigned now that mine is in all likelihood a school badge.
Mark

[Alan O]

Mark

I have emailed the old-boys association and perhaps they will know the answer.

There is an Australian school who use the red-black bars on their badge where as the UK's school crest has the green-yellow.

Neither crest design matches the badge shown in K&K.

Alan