1938 Voortrekker Badge Uniforms Assignment Selous Scouts

Assignment Selous Scouts

surrounded by the Latin inscription: FRANCISCUS • V • AUST: ATESTINUS • DUX • MUTINAE (Francesco V of Austria Este Duke of Modena)

being quietly and efficiently able to deal with prey much larger than itself

Jacket is 20” across chest (has elastic in back) and 31” in length

1938 Voortrekker Badge Uniforms Assignment Selous ScoutsVery Rare Original 1938 Voortrekker 100 Year anniversary Badge. Maker Marked in England. The Voortrekkers (Afrikaans for Pioneers) were Boers who took part in The Great Trek, which was a Northward migration of Dutch speaking settlers who travelled by Wagon trains from Cape Colony after 1834 and migrated into the interior Highveld north of the Orange River.