Maps

 Bardon, The Gap, Ashgrove

Badge Description

Green Hills & Valley = Green Hills within the Taylor Range.  There are also four gold valley markings depicting the four sections of scout at the time (i.e., Cubs, Scouts, Senior Scouts, Rovers) [1, 2, 8]

Rising Sun = Taken from old Brisbane West district badge.  The design was originally inspired by the “Burnside” district badge from Southern Area, South Australia which depicted a sun rising over the Adelaide Hills” and was initiated by Maurice (Raven) Hinsch after the Greenbank Corroboree in 1957.  Maurice was Ashgrove GSM (Group Scout Master/Group Leader) at that time, and up until 1961.  The Sun over the hills relates to the fact that the sun never sets on Scouting around the world, while the twelve rays represent the Scout Promise, Scout Motto & the ten parts of the Scout Law in the 1960s.  [1, 2, 8]

This is the first version of the Taylor Range district badge which was produced in 1957 without input from Branch Headquarters. [1, 2, 8]

Previous Badge Variations

The following are variations of the badge:

Type: Woven bound (Background varieties, 2 shades = Black & Dark Blue)	Type: Ribbon  (Issued Sept 1960)	Type Woven bound
52 x 52 mm	52 x 43 mm	52 x 52 mm
Ext	Ext	Ext

History

Taylor Range district is named after Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor, Master Surveyor and the First  Private Secretary to Kings George III, George IV and William IV.  In 1825 John Oxley called the area, which was eventually named Mount Coot-tha, the ‘Glen Morrison Range’, but in 1828, the colonial botanist Charles Fraser, whilst looking at the range from the Ipswich area, noted the bearings as Sir Herbert Taylor’s Range from which the current name derived.  The scout groups within Taylor Range district were originally part of Brisbane North West District (BNWD) which commenced in May 1934.  Following a redistribution of boundaries in 1955, Taylor Range District was formed.  The first District Commissioner was Theodore (Ted) Muhlberg (1955-1960), who was previously Group Scout Master, Jubilee Scout Group [9].

Groups

1. Stephenson, M. (2017). Taylor Range district badge – 60^th Anniversary. District Fact sheet
2. Haskard, D. (1983). The complete book of Australian Scout badges: Part 2, Queensland and Papua New Guinea. Chatswood, NSW: Badgophilist Publications. p. 25.
3. Australian Boy Scouts Association, Queensland Branch (1960).  Annual Report 1959-1960.
4. Boy Scouts Association, Queensland Branch (1968).  Annual Report 1967-1968.
5. The Boy Scouts Association, Queensland Branch (1971). Area, group and district directory 1971. Abel & Co.
6. The Scout Association of Australia, Qld Branch. (1983). Directory: Areas, Regions, Districts, Groups 1983.
7. Scouts Australia, Queensland Branch (2018, March 7). Formation listing 2018. Retrieved from https://scoutsqld.com.au/members/formation-listing/
8. Irons, J. (May, 1964) Australian Scout Badges. p.2. Glenorchy (GSM, 1st Prince of Wales Group), Tasmania.