Robert Baden Powell
English soldier
Moustache type: Caterpillar
Born: 22 2 1857 (London, England)
Died: 8 1 1941 (Nyeri, Kenya, aged 83), cause of death unknown to blogger
Robert Baden-Powell, the hero of Mafeking, served his country with distinction as a soldier but is known primarily as the founder of the scouting movement.
During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), Baden-Powell withstood an 8,000-man-strong Boer siege for 217 days, masterminding military artifices such as encouraging his men to step over non-existent barbed wire. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General, returned to Britain a national hero and retired from the Army in 1910. In 1937 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.
Two years earlier he had laid the foundations of the scouting movement with the publishing of his book Scouting for Boys. The book was based on an earlier book he had written for army scouts.
In 1920 Baden-Powell was named ‘Chief Scout of the World’. Today there are 28 million boy scouts worldwide. Scouts, do your duty, when you are old enough grow a (preferably ginger) tache in honour of BP.
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