GREAT CAREER ENDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 6

GREAT CAREER ENDS

| LORD BADEN-POWELL DEAD WORK AS SOLDIER & LEADER OF YOUTH. FUNERAL IN KENYA TODAY. LONDON January 8. Lord 1 >,if icii-I *i> we] i (iii-tl I ihis morning' in Kenya a; ;he agt- “I jfe had been ill since November. i Imperial headquarters in London of the Boy Scout movement has decided i that scouts throughout the world will i attend synchronised memorial services I either this Sunday or next. The funeral will take place in Kenya • tomorrow. i Famous as the founder of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movementi throughout the world and as the de--1 fender of Matching in the Boer War. Lord Baden-Powell was distinguished alike as soldier, scholar, sportsman, and author. His varied and colourful career is one of the romances of re- > cent history. As a military scout in Ashanti Matabeleland. and Zululand. ias a military spy in Europe, as the hero of the South African campaign : organiser of the South African Con- ; stabulary. and finally us the guidthg ; genius of an unparalleled internationn- ; youth movement, he enjoyed a variety j of experiences shared by few eontemi poraries. Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-; i Powell was born in London. His father was a clergyman, his mother the daughter of Admiral Smyth, and his godfather, after whom also he was: named, was the famous engineer Rob-, ert Stephenson. I His father died when he was three. 'Until he was 11 he was educated byj ! his mother. He then entered Charter-' i house on a scholarship, and there dis-j I tinguished himself not only academic-; ■ ally but in football, shooting, and ama-i

teur theatricals. In 1876 he left Char-J terhouse with the idea of going up to Oxford, blit meantime sat for the Army examinations. He passed second of the p list for cavalry, first for infantry, and 1 received a direct commission without I passing through Sandhurst to the ! l.'lth Hussars. He al once joined his i regiment al Lucknow. In 1880 he saw service in Afghanistan, and it is reported that ho shot himself in the leg when on a night raid. He served in the South African War of 1884 and in the Matabele campaign i of 1896 and subsequently commanded the sth Dragoon Guards in India. , In 1899 Baden-Powell was ordered . by Lord Wolseley to raise and comt rnand a north-west frontier force in South Africa. His defence of the little ! : town of Mafcking fur 218 days a re- . i markable military achievement raised . him from merely military distinction . to world fame. It was on his experi- • cnees during the siege, and in raising the South African Constabulary immediately afterward, that he based his theories of organisation afterwards used in the boy scout movement; the boy scout uniform is* founded uponT , that of the S A.C. and many points ofi, the scout organisation is similar. It was not tdl 19011. however, that . he at length launched the movement ( .. which he had long cherished in his I mind. In three years he enrolled , (300 000 boys; the fundamental appeal of J Scouting to the ad venturous spirit <»f , i youth, and the satisfaction it was iiblt'’, | to give to the otherwise nimlors. lads| £ j of crowded cities, made lb<- in.',•.mem j * an instant success From that lime it . ! became his life-work. i In 1912 General Sir Robert Badem; , Powell, ;t> he was then •.•wiled Nev. , j Zealand fur the first time He waM , ; accompanied by Lady Baden-PnwcllJ , i his bride of that year, previously Mw.s j | Okive St. Clair Swines t , During the Great War Sir Hoberti, j was fully uccupied with tin- w.:;;r.; wj i tion ;md control of the b -y scout nr .ve-. | men' )',>•.<• J•> >1 ... !< .> . • B • > tain and other couii’ri.- He had ■ tired from the army m 1910. but o* (several occasions visited the armies u.i | the field as guest <-f the Br.'t.'h wiw > mandvr-m-chief. Knirh'wd m IW9 ~mi cr-an d |bar. ’.> ' in 11*22 L- w.i- : raised m the ( peerage m 192’9 ,u • - • ■■ " ■ I Im. 1 service-; to the Empire and the youth! <.f the eld . I’■ - • v - Loi d r ; B. i. . 1 '•.>.• I ■ f G:’ .• I! The 'os’ of flw; iI di wI. --e - ; aid. d h;!n ,a retlect ' he V. t Idw de ,ip) ’ec > f, 11 his work. ■ ’’ ■ y.,; ye:n I ord B; d< • P. .2 h • ha-. brio w; p"'t Health Uwug'l Hi-- , ■ . \ .. ■< • | ! o . : . | Iw ; Ths ■, ■'wwa Jwltf . ,organ)■ ■,, >• , euu ■ ■' ■ • ■ ll'ie > < ‘e .w: i- ■ Wo' : Ho; i I their' SPIRH L Z> 2 r MESS AG E TO SC OU T HEA DQUARTE RS. Gt; < i Pi LHP 'fl • h w-i . o w I- ■ j Id H ’> s i'0,,0 1 ■ ■ . ;W :■ the 11 ' .' w ' •: ■ i Ch:'o*:t w s wi o- ww week ■ •: .i ’ >., i. . i ’i. -.-: ■■ ; r. : i j- CUI ' i •• i > , i ... -- ■ ■. h • ÜBd . ' WWW •■ . I H »IM 'A. " : t '• *•

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