Cadet Corps Medal

• Name — Cadet Corps Medal • Presenter — the State President • Country — South Africa • Type — Military long service medal • Eligibility — Cadet Corps officers • Awarded For — 20 years efficient service • Status — Discontinued in 1986 • Clasps — 30 years service • Established — 1966 • Firstawarded — 1967 • Lastawarded — 1978 • Total Awarded — 95 • Precedence Label — SADF pre-1994 & SANDF post-2002 orders of wear • Higher — * SADF precedence: • De Wet Decoration • SANDF precedence: • De Wet Decoration • Lower — * SADF succession: • Good Service Medal, Silver • SANDF succession: • Good Service Medal, Silver • Image2 — * Illustration — x29px • Caption2 — Ribbon bar

The Union Defence Forces (UDF) were established in 1912 and renamed the South African Defence Force (SADF) in 1958. On 27 April 1994, it was integrated with six other independent forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

Prior to 1966, uniformed members serving in the Cadet Corps of the South African Defence Force were not rewarded for long and loyal service by means of a medal. The only existing medals for long service until then were the Permanent Force Good Service Medal and, for the Citizen Force, the John Chard Decoration and John Chard Medal. The De Wet Decoration for the Commandos was only instituted a year earlier, in 1965. This was corrected on 19 August 1966, upon the institution of the Cadet Corps Medal by the State President. It was one of a few new decorations and medals which were introduced during the mid-1960s, in addition to the ten awards which had been instituted in 1952, to increase the range of possible awards for serving members.

The position of the Cadet Corps Medal in the official order of precedence was revised three times, to accommodate the inclusion or institution of new decorations and medals, first upon the integration into the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, again when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted in April 1996 for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again when a new series of military decorations and medals was instituted in South Africa on 27 April 2003, but it remained unchanged on all three occasions. • Illustration — De Wet Decoration (DWD) • Illustration — Cadet Corps Medal • Illustration — Good Service Medal, Silver • Official SANDF order of precedence: • Preceded by the De Wet Decoration (DWD) of the Republic of South Africa. • Succeeded by the Good Service Medal, Silver of the Republic of South Africa. • Official national order of precedence: • Preceded by the De Wet Decoration (DWD) of the Republic of South Africa. • Succeeded by the Good Service Medal, Silver of the Republic of South Africa.

The Cadet Corps Medal became obsolete in August 1976, when the Cadet Corps was absorbed into the Citizen Force and the Commandos. The medal was officially discontinued ten years later in 1986.