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   Old Cambrian Society badge - 1950s

  
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Old Cambrian Society badge - 1950s

Image of Old Cambrian Society badge - 1950s Image of Old Cambrian Society badge - 1950s

Photos by Ron Bullock

Two contrasting photos of Ron's Old Cambrian Society badge from the 1950s.
He says he had forgotten that the OC included the Boma.
Does anyone have any information about this?

  • John Picridas (Rhodes 1961-1965) e-mailed on 8th Jan 2004:
    The Old Cambrian Society badge included the "Boma" because the Kenya High School was sister school to the Prince of Wales School.

  • Christopher Collier-Wright (Hawke 1954-9) e-mailed on 10th Nov 2005:
    With regard to the lion rampant badge as featured on the blazer of the guy at Lake Nakuru and in the OC badge; Christine Nicholls in Red Strangers: The White Tribe of Kenya states that this badge and the motto Servire est Regnare (To serve is to reign) was designed by W.A. Berkeley of Nyeri for the co-educational Nairobi European School. The chap in the photo was presumably one of those who moved from the Nairobi European School to the Kabete School (soon to be known as the Prince of Wales) in 1931. This badge continued in use with the High School girls, who remained at the Nairobi School until they moved to the Kilaleshwa buildings in 1951, and I think at some juncture it acquired a chevron. Presumably the OC badge incorporated the lion as well as the impala because some of the members of the Old Cambrian Society had been exclusively or initially at the Nairobi European School. By the same token, the red stripe in the OC tie echoes the red background in the lion badge. The Kenya High School tie was principally red, and it is probably safe to assume the same was true of the Nairobi European School tie.