B-P's first experimental camp at Brownsea Island

Many claim have been made by people who have said that they were at the historical Brownsea Island camp with BadenPowell, Founder of Scouting. Others have claimed that their fathers or uncles were one of the 20 boys chosen by B.-P., on whom he tried out his new 'game of Scouting'. It has also been repeatedly said that these boys came from various classes - some from Eton and others from the East End of London. The accuracy of this statement is, however, open to conjecture. In his book, 'The Scout Movement', E.E. Reynolds records, 'B.-P. decided that he wanted a mixed company of boys to see how they would get on together so he formed his party out of some sons of his own friends [some of these may well have scholars at Eton] and some boys selected by the Boys' Brigade of Poole and Bournemouth; in this, and in helping to organise the camp, he received great assistance from Mr H. Robson and from Mr G.W. Green both of the B.B.' It is just possible that some of the alleged East London boys may have been members of the Boys' Brigade but it seems unlikely that the two Brigade Officers who were invited to make the selection would have chosen any but local boys who were known to them personally

 Wolves 

Mr Wroughton 

C.S. Curteis

 J. Evans-Lombe 

Percy Medway 

R. Giles  

Cedric E.  

M. Wroughton C.I.  

  Bulls 

T. Evans-Lombe 

F. Brimmer 

B. Blandford 

J. Rodney 

M. Noble 


Curlews 

G. Rodney 

Bertie Watts 

 Vivian T. 

Bonfield R. 

Grant G. 

Ravens 

H. Emley 

B. Tarrant 

W. Rodney 

H. Collingbourne 

H. Noble  

As to the other persons present at Brownsea, it's  known for certain that B.-P. selected two 'Assistant Scoutmasters'. One was Major Kenneth Maclaren, an old Army friend, and the other was Percy W. Everett (later Sir Percy Everett) who was then the Literary Manager of Pearsons the publishers, who later became Deputy Chief Scout. A third person present at B.-P.'s camp was his young nephew, Donald Baden-Powell who, it is said, acted as B.-P.'s orderly.

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