Silver Badge Party

The Silver Badge Party was an unofficial political movement which existed in the United Kingdom during and immediately after the First World War.

First to be formed was the National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers (NADSS), established following a meeting in Blackburn in September 1916 and initially linked to the labour and trade union movement.

In April 1917, the Asquith Liberal MP James Myles Hogge sponsored a meeting at the National Liberal Club over the Military Service (Review of Exceptions) Bill, which proposed to reclassify those invalided out of the army to identify those who might be recalled to service.

This meeting led to the formation of the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Sailors and Soldiers (NFDSS).

In three Leeds constituencies, the candidates were nominated jointly by the NFDSS, the NADSS and the Comrades of the Great War.