BSA Master-at-Arms Badge

You can’t earn this badge any longer, but from 1911 to 1912, Scouts could earn the Master-at-Arms Badge by “attaining proficiency in two of the following subjects:”

  • Single-Stick
  • Quarter-Staff
  • Fencing
  • Boxing
  • Ju-Jitsu
  • Gymnastics
  • Wrestling

According to MeritBadge.org, The Master-at-Arms badge was one of the original 14 “Badges of Merit” issued by the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 in the temporary “Original edition” of the BSA Handbook.

It was not included in the 1911 edition of the Boy Scout handbook.

Here is a PDF copy of the original document:  Master-at-Arms

Thanks to Mark Harris for sharing this bit of Scouting history!