Stonyhurst College Clitheroe Lancashire Combined Cadet Force (CCF) Cloth Beret Cap Badge

Rare, c2003, Stonyhurst College CCF beret cloth cap badge. VGC.


After the Second World War School OTCs / JTCs STCs were succeeded by the C.C.F. and Stonyhurst's is run from the College Armoury adjoining the Ambulacrum and Shooting Range, led by a team of officers under a Major assigned to the school. It meets weekly on a Thursday afternoon and comprises the following platoons named after Stonyhurst's seven Victoria Cross winners:

Junior Coy
Costello Platoon (Lieutenant Edmund William COSTELLO V.C., Malakand, India 1897).
Coury Platoon (Second Lieutenant George Gabriel COURY V.C., Guillemont, Somme 1916).
Liddell Platoon (Captain John Aiden LIDDELL V.C, Ostend, Belgium 1915).
Kenna Platoon (Captain Paul Aloysius KENNA V.C., Khartoum, Sudan 1898).

Senior Company
Dease Platoon (Lieutenant Maurice James DEASE V.C., Mons, Belgium 1914).
Jackman Platoon (Captain James Joseph Bernard JACKMAN V.C., Ed Duda, Tobruk, 1941).
Andrews Platoon (Captain Harold Marcus ERVINE-ANDREWS V.C., Dunkirk 1940).

Support Platoon
Those in Grammar Playroom (year ten) are automatically enrolled in the CCF and are given the option of continuing at the end of the year, following a summer camp which takes place at a local barracks. Training involves a range of activities such as drill (marching and related manoeuvres), shooting, learning how to assemble and clean weapons, tactical planning and team work. The school supplies pupils with uniform, the orderliness of which is rigorously enforced and inspected each week. Each platoon is led by a Junior Under Officer, his sergeant and corporals who are sixth form students.

Code: 459