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[Daft Bat]

If you look at the photos in my media, there is one of my Dad entitled, “Scouting Radio Ham”. Dad joined the Wolf Cubs in 1934, moved on to the Scouts, then the Rover Scouts, became a Scout Leader, District Commissioner and eventually Assistant County Commissioner.

Scouts began with 20 boys and an experimental camp held in August 1907 on Brownsea Island, Dorset. Robert Baden-Powell, the camp’s organiser and Scouts’ founder, decided that his training and methods appealed to young people and really worked.

But it was not until today, 2nd February 1914 that the very first Wolf Cub Pack was formed in England in Robertsbridge, Sussex. Although not formally founded for another couple of years, the Cubs had 6,000 members by the end of that year!

 

[Bay Horse]

We had a World Jamboree take place in the woods just up the road from here, twenty one years later in 1927 and known as the 'Coming of Age' Jamboree. There's a commemorative life-size sculpture of a boy scout that I pass most days.

I've always liked the idea of a 'jamboree'. It sounds fun.

 

[Anthony J Corps]

Ashamed to say I joined the scouts for the wrong reasons I only wanted to wear the broad brimmed hat Halfway through my tenderfoot I asked the Scout Leader why none of the Patrol leaders or himself wore the hat He explained it had been done away with the year before as official uniform So that was me finished with them No hat no Jim

 

[TonyV]

I got chucked out of the Scouts for fraternising with the Girl Guides!

 

[Auburn]

We had a World Jamboree take place in the woods just up the road from here, twenty one years later in 1927 and known as the 'Coming of Age' Jamboree. There's a commemorative life-size sculpture of a boy scout that I pass most days.

I've always liked the idea of a 'jamboree'. It sounds fun.

Jamboree bags were fun! You have to be a certain age....

 

[Archie's Mum]

Ashamed to say I joined the scouts for the wrong reasons I only wanted to wear the broad brimmed hat Halfway through my tenderfoot I asked the Scout Leader why none of the Patrol leaders or himself wore the hat He explained it had been done away with the year before as official uniform So that was me finished with them No hat no Jim

You could always join the New Zealand Army. They wear similar.

 

[MollyMay]

You have to be a certain age....

I am

Back in the 90's my son went into a draw to select a scout from their troop to go to a Jamboree (Brazil I think). He wasn't lucky enough to win, and the cost back then was horrendously expensive.

 

[trlvn]

After my Mom moved into a care facility, I was cleaning out the house and came across my Boy Scout badge sash. I remember pestering her to sow on badges as soon as I got them. Now, however, I had only a vague idea what a few of them were about.

Craig

 

[Anthony J Corps]

You could always join the New Zealand Army. They wear similar.

A tad too far to travel from North Yorkshire