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Category: History
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Mar 03 2017
Happy Birthday 1st Claremont
1st Claremont is 109 years old today – the oldest Scout Group in South Africa! This is the first flag, flown in March 1908. The handwritten notes are by the first Scoutmaster, George French: “White Ensign – 1st Flag flown by S.M. Scouts in March 1908 and at all subsequent standing camps and Trek Camps …
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George French – First Scoutmaster in South Africa
George French was born in London on 17 October 1855. Shortly afterwards his father was sent to India with the army. When George was 5 both his parents and two younger sisters died of cholera and George was sent back to England to his grandparents. Four years later his grandfather also died and George spent …
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The early years 1908 – 1919
BP first published Scouting for Boys in January 1908 in serialised form in England. By the end of February 1908, the first publication had reached the shores of the Cape Colony where two school boys, Fred and Charles Stern, read the article with avid interest and decided to ask their headmaster to launch a scout …
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History
Our history begins over 100 years ago in 1908. Robert Baden-Powell in England has published the first part of his serialised “Scouting for Boys” in January 1908. Because mail only moves at the pace of shipping, it is February 1908 before the first copy reaches the Cape Colony. Two schoolboys, Fred and Charles Stern, excited …
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