Scouting
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Scouting or the Scout Movement is a youth movement which became popularly established in the first decade of the 20th century.
Scouts and Guides from several different countries meet at a World Scout Moot in Sweden, 1996
Stone on Brownsea Island commemorating the first experimental Scout camp
Olave Baden-Powell, Girl Guide's second head
Cairn remembering the 1908 Lookwide camp at Fourstones near Humshaugh, the first proper Scout Camp
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was a British Army officer, writer, founder of The Boy Scouts Association and its first Chief Scout, and founder, with
Scouting
…leaders instructed boys and girls in scout craft. Reconnaissance and Scouting (1884) and Aids to Scouting, books on military scout training written by Robert Baden-Powell, were among the sources used for instruction. Sales of Aids to Scouting were fueled by Baden-Powell's fame as hero of the Second Boer War. Inspired by…
Baden-Powell in scout uniform, c. 1910–1920
Siege of Mafeking, 10 shillings (1900), Second Boer War currency issued by authority of Colonel Robert Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell on a patriotic postcard in 1900
A World War I propaganda poster drawn by Baden-Powell