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Brownsea Island Scout Camp Memorial

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Brownsea Island Scout Camp Memorial

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  • Location: Studland, Purbeck, Dorset, South West England, England, United Kingdom

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    August 26, 2023

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    The Brownsea Island Scout Camp was the world's first Scout camp, and is regarded as the formal birth of the worldwide Scout movement. Robert Baden-Powell ran the camp from August 1 to August 8, 1907 on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour on the South coast of England. Many of the concepts still used worldwide in the Scout programme were first used at the Brownsea Island camp.

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    This stone commemorates experimental camp of 20 boys held on this site from 1-9 August 1907 by Robert Baden-Powell.
    Later Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell.
    Founder of the Scout and Guide Movements.
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    Location: Studland, Purbeck, Dorset, South West England, England, United Kingdom

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