18 November 2008
112 Year Old Boy Scout
Posted by admin under: International .
No, this isn’t some Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner skit. The BBC is reporting that a World War I veteran who was briefly a Boy Scout as a child was recently invested, officially recognized, as a Boy Scout. I just like the idea of our elders keeping the Scouting dream alive.
Britain’s oldest man and one of the last survivors of World War I has been invested as a scout, 100 years after he first joined the movement.
Henry Allingham, who celebrated his 112th birthday in June, joined the 6th Brighton Scouts as part of the group’s 30th birthday celebrations.
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Simon Carter, from the Scout Association, added: “Henry was a real inspiration to the girls and boys in the 6th Brighton.
“He is certainly the oldest living scout in the whole of Europe and probably the oldest living scout in the world.
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