Brownsea Island :Photos of participants?

[Kaketoe 10]

 

Hi,

 

I am doing research on the lives of the participants of the FIRST CAMPOUT, exactly 100 yrs ago (August 1907) on Brownsea Island.

 

Some of these boys died in World War One, in Flanders and France.(1914-1918)

 

Urgent : I am looking for pictures of 3 participants:

 

- Musgrave Cazenove "Bob" WROUGHTON

- (Hon.) William Francis RODNEY

- Marc A.P. NOBLE

 

I do have photos of these three young officers, from papers during WW.1 (as they had died), official obituaries. Can anyone find other pictures of them? Childhood pics, scouting pics, private photos...?

 

GEERT SPILLEBEEN, Flanders (in Belgium)

 

Also author of the novel: Kipling's choice (Houghton Mifflin Company, in Boston & NY), triple American award winning book for young adults

[Kudu 186]

[i meant to post my reply to this, the "Scouting History" Forum.]

 

33 minutes into the BBC's "Ian Hislop's Scouting For Boys," Hislop sits on Brownsea Island and says "This is a set of extraordinary photographs taken on that first camp in 1907, and it shows the boys literally here taking part in the various exercises that Baden-Powell had dreamt up."

 

The 12 photographs that he shares are high quality and sharply focused. If you know what they look like, perhaps you can spot the three boys in the video, and maybe more photographs exist in this collection. The closing credits do not specify from which archive they were borrowed.

 

Hislop reports that "Among the fatalities [of WW I] were five of the 20 boys who joined Baden-Powell on Brownsea Island."

 

Kudu

 

[Miki101 14]

All of the Brownsea photos reside in the Gilwell Archive. There are only 23 known photos from Brownsea known to exist.

 

David C. Scott

[Kaketoe 10]

Thank you David,

 

I tried but could not find a way to contact these people from the Gilwell Archives. Do you know the way?

Some of these pictures are on the internet, on different sites, but not all 23. After all these years I think they should be available to everyone, electronically.

 

GEERT

 

And thank you "Kudu",

I am afraid it's too late now to record that Ian Hislop programme. Could not find a copy on the internet.

 

GEERT

[Miki101 14]

Try Paul Moynihan, Archivist.

 

paul.moynihan@SCOUT.ORG.UK