scouts

Lord Baden-Powell of England is generally given credit for founding the Scouts. There is no doubt he founded the Scout movement in England along military […]

1976, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Worlds of Ernest Thompson Seton

In that year Percy Everett suggested that to prevent the Scouts being squeezed out (as they might be if cadet training were to become compulsory for all boys) […]

2001, Tim Jeal, Baden-Powell

Boer War hero Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scouts in 1907 so that young men might put military and colonial frontier discipline to work in suburban peacetime.

2004, Philippa Levine, Gender and Empire

The most common criterion of effectiveness quoted from within the Scout Movement is that of the large number of former Scouts who become successful in later [life …]

1961, The Australian Journal of Social Issues, Australian Council of Social Service, page 46

The Scouts promise to make a real effort to help Mrs Tuttleby find a Scout group which will appoint her as a leader with a restricted warrant.

2000, Rannveig Traustadóttir, Kelley Johnson (editors), Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a Place in the World

Civic projects were sponsored through service clubs such as Rotary, Apex and Lions. Children might attend Brownies or Cubs, the Guides or the Scouts. […] By the 1960s Australian cultural activities were also being put on an international footing.

2002, Brian Galligan, Winsome Roberts, Gabriella Trifiletti, Australians and Globalisation: The Experience of Two Centuries

The Scouts also took him further afield than his native Melbourne. At the end of 1938, he sailed to Sydney for the Scout Jamboree on the Canberra.

2004, Anne E. Blair, Ruxton: A Biography

[…] and in 2002, the Guides, Scouts, Returned and Serves League and Surf Life Saving clubs all sponsored Harmony Day.

2004, Dr Winsome Roberts, Brian Galligan, Australian Citizenship, page 95

Column strength never exceeded 72 men, and the results achieved were out of all proportion. In alone the Scouts notched up 1,257 kills, only 180 of them internal.

1986, Peter Abbott, Philip Botham, Modern African Wars

As the terrorists in Rhodesia relied heavily on letters for communication, the Scouts often captured a bonanza of intelligence […]

1994, Leroy Thompson, SAS: Great Britain's Elite Special Air Service

The Scouts recognised that dead CTs were either abandoned or buried and forgotten, whereas the living wounded presented an unwanted burden […]

2005, Peter J. H. Petter-Bowyer, Winds of Destruction: The Autobiography of a Rhodesian Combat Pilot