HISTORY OF SCOUTING MOVEMENT FOUNDER

ROBERT STEPHENSON SMYTH BADAN-POWELL (BP) WAS BORN ON THE (22/02/1857) TWENTY-TWO FEBRUARY (1857)

THE SON OF PROFESSOR BADEN-POWELL OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY. HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS 3 YEARS OLD AND HIS MOTHER DEVOTED HERSELF TO BRINGING UP A RATHER LARGE FAMILY OF 10 BADEN-POWELL AND HIS BROTHER WERE ENCOURAGED BY THEIR MOTHER TO MAKE THEIR OWN FUN.

THEY LEARNED ABOUT THE OUTDOORS BUILT BOATS AND SAILED THEM AND WENT ON LONG JOURNEY LEARNING TO LOOK AFTER THEMSELVES BADEN-POWELL (BP) ATTENDED CHARTER HOUSE SCHOOL DURING WHICH TIME HE TOOK PART IN A NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES INCLUDING ACTING, SINGING,CADET CORPS AND ACT, IN THE WOOD NEAR THE SCHOOL KNOWN AS “THE COPSE” HE STUDIED STALKED AND TRACKING OF ANIMALS.

IS FRIEND AND TEACHERS ENCOURAGE BADEN-POWELL TO SIT FOR ARMY EXAMS, HE SURPRISED EVERYONE BY GAINING 2ND PLACE OUT OF 700 CANDIDATES AS A RESULT WAS COMISSION AS A SUBLIEUETENANT IN THE 13TH HUSSARS. HE SAILED TO JOIN HIS REGIMENT IN HUCK NOW, INDIA, WHERE HE TOOK COURSES IN SURVEYING AND RECONNAISSANCE HE WAS QUICKLY PROMOTED AND MOVEND UP THROUGH THE RANK AND TRAINED HIS MEN USING COMPETITIONS AND GAMES TAUGHT THEM HOW TO TRACK AND LIVE IN WILD COUNTRY.HE ALSO WROTE A BOOK”AID TO SCOUTING” ALL ABOUT HIS METHOD OF ARMY TRAINING.

THIS BOOK WAS LATER TO BECOME THE BASE OF SCOUTING IN (1887)HE WAS SENT TO SOUTH AFRICA WHERE HE TOOK PART IN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST AN AFRICA CHIEF CALLED DINIZULUIN (1899) COLONEL BADEN-POWELL (BP) RETURNED TO SOUTH AFRICA BECAUSE THERE WAS THE POSSIBILITY OF WAR BETWEEN THE DUTCH SETTLERS(BOERS) AND THE BRITISH SETTLES,WAR WAS DECLARED AND BADEN-POWELL (BP) (1000) MEN WHERE LEFT TO DEFEND THE TOWN OF MAFEKING, WHICH WAS THE SUPPORT CENTER FOR THE BRITISH ,

THE THOUGHT UP ALL SORT OF SCHEMES TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE TOWN WAS HEAVILY QUARDED WHEN REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVED THE SIEGE HAD LASTED FOR 7 MONTH BADEN-POWELL (BP) TOOK PART IN NUMBER OF OTHER CONFLICTS AND IN (1903) BADEN-POWELL (BP) WAS APPOINTED “INSPECTOR GENERAL OF CAVALRY” IN JULY (1907) BADEN-POWELL (BP) RAN A CAMP FOR GROUP OF BOYS ON BROWNSEA ISLAND POOLE HARBOUR.IN (1908) BADEN-POWELL (BP) WAS KNIGHTED BY KING EDWARD VIL FOR HIS OUTSTANDING MILLITAY CAREER AND ESPECIALLY FOR FOUNDING SCOUTING. BADEN-POWELL (BP) DIED IN KENYA (1941) WHEN HE WAS ALMOST “84” ON HIS GRAVESIVNE UNDER THE BADGES OF SCOUT AND GUIDES IS CARVED “LORD ROBERT STEPHENSON SMYTH BADEN-POWELL (BP) CHIEF OF SCOUT MOVEMENT WORLD WILD.