TODAY MARK 80 YEARS OF LORD ROBERT BADEN POWELL CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD PASS AWAY

TODAY MARK 80 YEARS OF LORD ROBERT BADEN POWELL CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD PASS AWAY

DIED ON 8th January 1941

The graves of Lieutenant-General The 1st Baron Baden-Powell and his wife, Olave, Baroness Baden-Powell, G.B.E., are in Nyeri, Nyeri County, Kenya, near Mount Kenya.

Lord Baden-Powell died on 8 January 1941, and is buried in St. Peter’s Cemetery in the Wajee Nature Park.

When his wife Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, died, her ashes were sent to Kenya and interred beside her husband. Kenya has declared Baden-Powell’s grave a national monument, Scouters consider the grave, “one of the most revered shrines and pilgrimage sites in the world.”

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