It was at the age of 40 he gave his first training in Scouting and awarded sholdiers reaching certain standards a badge based on the north point of the compass. In 1899, he went to Mafeking, the most notable episode in his military career, he became Major General and a hero of every boy. It was here that he wrote his first book "Aids to Scouting" and when returning to England he found that it was being used by youth leaders and teachers all over the country. He then set to work to rewrite the book for a younger readership. In 1907 he held an experimental camp on Brownsea Island, Poole, Dorset to try his ideas. He brought together 22 boys under his leadership, the whole world now knows the results of that camp. What had been intended as a training aid for existing military had became the handbook for a new and ultimately worldwide Movement.
The first internation Scout Jamboree took place at Olympia, London in 1920. At its closing, BP was unanimously acclaimed as Chief Scout of the World.
On January 8, 1941, Baden-Powell died in Nyeri, Kenya at the age of 83. He is buried at the base of Mount Kenya, on his headstone are the words, "Robert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout of the World" flanke by the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Badges. His memory remains for all time in the hearts of millions of men and women, boys and girls.
It is up to those who are, or have been, Scouts or Guides to see that the two Movements he so firmly established continue for all time as living memorials fo their Founder |
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