Scouting efforts WWI

Post date: Nov 13, 2015 9:59:20 AM

I wasn't able to make this post in time for Remembrance Day; however, I thought that some might find it interesting the roll Scouting played in 1914 (WW1).

...The outbreak of war in 1914 might well have destroyed the Boy Scouts Organisation. Scoutmasters volunteered for the Army and the Navy in the thousands and it seemed many Troops would have to be disbanded...Before the first year was out they were preforming every kind of National Service. They were messengers in Government offices; they patrolled railway lines; they guarded bridges; they helped in the hospitals; they collected salvage; they harvested flax, and when the Zeppelins came it was their bugles, more musical than the sirens of which they were the forbears, that sounded the "All Clear"...

~http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/lefthandshake.pdf (viewed November 12, 2015)