Photo Caption: Members of 2nd Marham (RAF) Scouting Group celebrate 100 years of Scouting.

Scouting Celebrates 100 Years

At 8:00 am in the morning of 1st August 2007 at RAF Marham in Norfolk, 31 members of the Station’s Scouting Group and 7 adults re-enacted a 100 year old tradition.

It was 100 years to the day that Baden Powell sounded a Kudu’s hour, at Brownsea Island, at eight in the morning to signify the start of the first scout camp. Today, the group, consisting of Beavers, Cubs, Explorers and Scouts, heard the Group Scout Leader, Sergeant Andrew Monkhouse, read out the following statement “Acting Station Commander, members of the Scout Group and parents, Good Morning and welcome. Today we are 100 years to the day since the first Scout camp was run on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour. Every Scout, from every country and territory that is part of the World Organisation of the Scout Movement, will mark the centenary and look to the past, present and, most importantly, the future of scouting.

At 8.00 am, Scouts and former Scouts will meet in large or small gatherings around the World to renew their Promise in the second century of Scouting. To commemorate the moment for the World, the same kudu horn that Lord Baden Powell blew on that very first morning will once again be blown at 8.00 am on Brownsea Island. So we will take it in turns to renew our promises starting with the Beavers then the Cubs and finally Scouts, Explorers and all invested Leaders. On completion we will turn around, stand to alert and quietly watch the raising of the Royal Air Force Ensign”.

The Group was then brought to attention to renew their scout promise and the RAF Ensign was raised, while the Acting Station Commander, Wing Commander Dave Waddington, took the salute.

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