Scout Pennants

Cambridge District Scout Archive

The above rally was in Cambridge in 1911. It shows both staffs, and patrol pennants.

Peewit Patrol Pennant           (John Chambers collection)
13th Cambridge 1929 Mixed patrol tent
1930’s camp 23rd Cambridge

A poor quality photograph of the 7th Cambridge showing a number of staffs with patrol pennants. Not every Scout appears to be carrying a staff. Presumably every P/L did.

7th Cambridge 1938
Panther Patrol Pennant Abington 1948
(John Chambers collection)
1961 Walesby  28th Cambridge
Late 1930’s – late 1940’s Unknown troop, unknown patrol

The first of the pennants below ‘Boy Scouts Fund’ has a distinct history. From 1930

Further Blue and Green pennants were flown from the ship Discovery for every £500 and £1000 raised by each County. It is not known how much was raised in total by Cambridgeshire.

T L Issacson was selected having recently been awarded a Scout medal for saving life.


(distributed  from John Chambers collection)
12th Cambridge adorning a camp notice board

In 1926 the Gonville and Caius Patrol used the Caius Pennant as a Patrol flag

JWR Archivist 2019