Rising sun collar badge : Australian Commonwealth Cadet Corps

Australian Commonwealth Cadet Corps rising sun collar badge. The badge has seven triangular fins that protrude from the top side like rays. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH' is embossed beneath the fins in an arch over a Tudor crown. Below this is a scroll bar with 'CADET CORPS' embossed. On the reverse are a pair of attachment lugs.

The Australian Commonwealth Cadet Corps established in 1906, aimed at promoting military service for boys aged 12 and above. A variant of the Australian army's 1904 'Rising Sun' badge was designed for the new Corps. With them the boys wore a slouch hat, dark green jacket, khaki drab breeches and matching green puttees. The uniform and badges were available to all school cadets, but were mostly worn by cadets in government schools, and some of the smaller private schools. The larger private schools, some of whom had run their own military cadet units from the late nineteenth century, retained their own uniforms and badges.

The distinctive uniform and badge of the first Commonwealth cadets was discontinued in 1911 with the introduction of a Universal Training Scheme, which made participation in military training mandatory in all schools. The uniform was simplified to a slouch hat, olive drab woollen shirt, breeches and puttees. In place of the 1906 pattern Cadet Corps badge a single brass numeral was worn on the front of the slouch hat representing one of the 92 Cadet Battalions