Taughannock District
Baden-Powell Council, BSA
Virtual Patch Collection - Other Countries

















Australia


Patch used by Australian Scouts at the American National Jamboree in 2005

Australian national patch
Courtesy Liam Murphy

Courtesy Liam Murphy

Australian national patch

New South Wales - Cataract Scout Park camp patch

Canada


A group in Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, B.C.

The Islands Region is in British Columbia

Courtesy Liam Murphy


Courtesy Liam Murphy

Courtesy Liam Murphy

Germany

In German, a Scout is called a "Pfadfinder" (or "Pfadfinderin" for a girl) - literally, a "pathfinder". 

Like many European countries, Germany has a number of Scouting organizations, usually organized along religious lines. 
Most of these patches are from the largest German Scout organization, the DPSG - Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft Sankt Georg - German St. George Scouts - which is Catholic-oriented. The next-largest is the nondenominational BdP, then the Protestant VCP.


1986 patch
"flinke Hande-flinkeFusse" = "Nimble Hands, Nimble Feet"
"On the road to Westernohe" (a place in the Rhineland)

1991 Patch
"Komera" means "strength" in Rwandan.
"Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Children's Rights"

1991 Forty-year Anniversary patch for Scouts in Offenburg

1993 Patch for an event in Friedeburg:
"Over the Horizon"

1994 DPSG patch
"World Winners"

German National Strip, with European Union circle of stars

20th Anniversary Patch for the BdP - "Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder" (Organization of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts".
The BdP is a nondenominational Scouting organization


These patches are from the DPSG

DPSG Cub patch

Another DPSG Cub patch

Gibraltar

 

Hong Kong

Iceland

 

Ireland

Netherlands

Dutch Scout Groups are named after people, hence this group named after "Hertog Jan VanBrabant", a 13th century king. 

New Zealand


I'm not entirely sure about this patch - Rimu is in New Zealand, so that's what I'm attributing the patch to. It was in a collection of Pacific-area patches. 

Okinawa

This patch dates to the period when Okinawa was occupied by the United States after the Second World War. After 1972, when Okinawa was handed back to Japan, the Japanese Scouts on the island would have become part of the Japanese Scouts. Scout dependents of US military and diplomatic personnel would now be considered BSA Scouts in the Far East Council. 

Philippines

Poland

Miscellaneous


Girl Scout contingent patch for Europe trip in 2000

Unknown country

Kandersteg is an international Scout Centre in Switzerland.
 

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Lots of Scouts and Scouters collect patches - your Webmaster is no exception. So, I've put up a Virtual Patch Collection for the district. It's by no means exhaustive, but it's what I've got. If you felt like contributing pictures of some patches we don't yet have in the collection, please e-mail them to Mike Brown at wb2jwd@gmail.com - the scans should be between 450-600 pixels in width and height(no multi-megabyte scans, please, they crash my e-mail program) and in JPG or PNG format if possible. Of course, if you wanted to give me the actual patches, I won't insult you by refusing...

-Mike Brown

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