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unusual facts about Wood Badge



Emirates Scout Association

Scouts participate in regional and world Scouting activities, and are active with other Persian Gulf states training in Wood Badge.

Francis Gidney

He was appointed the first Camp Chief of Gilwell Park in May 1919, and organized the first Wood Badge adult leader training course there in September 1919.

Hubert S. Martin

He was one of Baden-Powell's instructors at the first Wood Badge course held at Gilwell Park, on 8 to 19 September 1919.

Percy Everett

Baden-Powell conferred the six-bead Wood Badge onto Everett, which he passed on in 1948 to Gilwell Park's Camp Chief John Thurman, to be worn as badge of office by the person responsible for leader training.

Salvador Fernández Beltrán

Salvador Fernández Beltrán D.J.C. (born at Matanzas, Cuba – 1987 in Venezuela) was among the first in the Americas to receive Wood Badge training, at Gilwell Park, England.

Sano Tsuneha

Sano was a participant, during which time he attended a Wood Badge course at Gilwell Park, marking the watershed for the first period of Japanese Scouting.

The Gambia Scout Association

Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof Served the movement from 1938 to 2005, former President of the Gambia National Scout Council, scholar on the history of scouting in the Gambia, first Gambian to be awarded the Wood Badge.


see also

Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America

The axe-in-log is the emblem of Gilwell Park where the first Wood Badge course was held and the Maclaren tartan honors William de Bois Maclaren, who donated the funding to purchase Gilwell Park in 1919.