Wood Badge Axe N Log Pin

Proudly display this Wood Badge Axe N Log Pin to show your Wood Badge loyalty. Pins are great as a decoration for lapel, jacket, dress, suit, bag, backpack, hat, etc. This is a great gift for your patrol at reunions or to give to your patrol as a Thank You for the great memories. The axe and log totem was conceived by the first Camp Chief, Francis Gidney, in the early 1920s to distinguish Gilwell Park from the Scout Headquarters. Gidney wanted to associate Gilwell Park with the outdoors and Scoutcraft rather than the business or administrative Headquarters offices. Scouters present at the original Wood Badge courses regularly saw axe blades masked for safety by being buried in a log. Seeing this, Gidney chose the axe and log as the totem of Gilwell Park. In looking for a suitable recognition for the 19 men who completed the first Wood Badge course, the hero of the 217-day siege of the South African town of Mafeking in 1900 found among his old army trophies and souvenirs a long necklac