Collar Badges - Officer Training Corps 
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The Officer Training Corps (OTC) was established in 1929.   The OTC's were disbanded in 1935.  All the OTC collar badges  were brass.  In addition to the collar badges a number of titles also existed and these were worn on the epaulettes .  There is a grey area between the Pre 1922 OTC titles and the 1929 version.

There is some question about the badges for St. Patrick's Teacher Training College and the Veterinary College.  It has been suggested that the badges were not worn in brass and only the chrome version for the volunteers exist.

      
St. Patricks Teacher Training College Trinity College Dublin
   
      
University College Cork Veterinary College of Ireland
   
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University College Dublin College of Surgeons
 
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University College Galway

 

The title shown here for Dublin OTC is the one worn during the British period.  The one worn in 1929 was a the same but smaller.  It cannot be discounted that the badge shown was not used post 1929. 

Trinity College Dublin
 
University College Cork
 
University College Galway

 

 
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 Page Updated : Tuesday, 07 April 2009