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12-10-13, 09:53 AM
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Looks like one of those Cavalry arm badges that used to be worn by NCO scouts/recon soldiers. I don't have any so cannot confirm age or useage. There is one in the Cox book attributable to the Household Cavalry.
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12-10-13, 11:08 AM
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Baden-Powell introduced a north point of the compass badge very much like this for soldiers he trained in military scouting, later to be adopted as a badge for the Boy Scouts he founded in 1908. I am apt to think of this as an early army badge for a 'Tradesman'
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12-10-13, 11:29 AM
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It is listed in Edwards and Langley as 12 (A and B). They say it was used by Household Cavalry, Cavalry of the Line and Infantry.
In addition to the use mentioned above, this badge was used to identify scouts in infantry battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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12-10-13, 08:38 PM
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4 versions of this - 2 large and 2 small, one of each without the cross and one of each with the cross. The cross signifies that the holder is a corporal if memory serves correct.
These were indeed badges for Army Scouts and it was on these that Baden Powell based the Scout Badge. There is a really good article on this website (http://www.scoutingmilestones.co.uk) about how this badge became the badge used by boy scouts across the world. (Its also from this website that I took the image attached to this post illustrating the different variants of the badge).
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12-10-13, 09:33 PM
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