Swimming Shield

Cambridge District Scout Archive

Presented by The Cambridge University Rover Troop to the Cambridge & District Boy Scouts Association

From the shield

Inner ring engraved on the shield

• 1925       1^st Cambridge Sea Scouts
• 1926       1^st Cambridge Sea Scouts
• 1927       1^st Cambridge Sea Scouts
• 1928       1^st Cambridge Sea Scouts
• 1930       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1931       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1932       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1933       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1934       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1935       12^th Cambridge Troop
• 1936       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1937       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1938       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1939       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1940       No competition
• 1941       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1942       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1943       7^th and 12^th Troops
• 1944       7^th Cambridge Troop
• 1945       12^th Cambridge Troop
• 1946       60^th Cambridge Troop
• 1947       8^th Cambridge Troop
• 1948       8^th Cambridge Troop
• 1949       1^st Cambridge Sea Troop
• 1952       12th Cambridge Troop
• 1955       5th Cambridge Troop
• 1957       12^th Cambridge Troop
• 1961       12^th Cambridge Troop

Outer ring of medallions systematically moved to the back

• 1962       12^th Cambridge Troop
• 1963       12^th Cambridge Troop
• 1964       12^th Cambridge Troop
• 1965       56^th Cambridge Troop
• 1966       14^th and 16^th Cambridge Troop
• 1967       14^th Cambridge Troop (St Luke’s)
• 1968       10^th & 60th Cambridge Troop

Outer ring of medallions front

• 1969       11^th/9^th Cambridge Troop
• 1970       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1971       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1972       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1973       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1974       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1975       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1976       X
• 1977       50^th Cambridge Troop
• 1978       13^th Cambridge Troop
• 1979       50^th Cambridge Troop
• 1980       X
• 1981       6/17^th Cambridge Troop
• 1982       1^st Histon
• 1983       57^th Cambridge Troop
• 1984       1^st Histon              
• 1985       1^st Histon
• 1986       27^th Cambridge Troop
• 1987       27^th Cambridge Troop
• 1988       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1989       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1990       X
• 1991       X
• 1992       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1993       12^th Cambridge Troop
• 1994       12^th Cambridge Troop
• 1995       50^th Cambridge Troop
• 1996       X
• 1997       X
• 1998       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 1999       X
• 2000       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 2001       1^st Hardwick and Highfields
• 2002       26^th Cambridge Troop
• 2003       26^th & 18^th Cambridge Troop
• 2004       6/17^th Cambridge Troop
• 2005       1^st Over
• 2006       1^st Over 
• 2007       6/17^th Cambridge Troop
• 2008       6/17^th  Cambridge Troop
• 2009       50^th Cambridge Troop
• 2010       6/17^th Cambridge Troop
• 2011       X
• 2012       2nd Cottenham
• 2013       X
• 2014       6/17^th Cambridge Troop

X indicates a year when no medallion exists on the shield.  On the innermost engraved shield in 1940 the words No Competition are engraved, but no entries are made for the missing years 1929,1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959 or 1960.

From records elsewhere 1950 1^st, 1951 1^st, 1953 12^th, 1956 5^th Cambridge were winners.  Some of these are from AGM reports which overlap two years and can be a year out.

The handwritten words on the back of the shield are           ‘Original shield mounted on wooden background and new plaques added 13^th July 1963’ and above it ‘Engrave plaques clockwise looking at front of shield’.

JWR Archivist Feb 2019