Silver Wolf Award (The Scout Association)
Silver Wolf | |||
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Owner | The Scout Association | ||
Founder | Robert Baden-Powell | ||
Awarded for | Outstanding service to Scouting | ||
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The Silver Wolf is the highest award made by The Scout Association "for services of the most exceptional character." It is an unrestricted gift of the Chief Scout. The award consists of a Silver Wolf suspended from a dark green and yellow neck ribbon.
History[]
Since its inception by Robert Baden-Powell, the Silver Wolf has remained the "unrestricted gift of the Chief Scout", although "County Commissioners and overseas Chief Scouts may submit recommendations to Scout Headquarters."
During the early years of the development of the Scout Movement throughout the world, it was the practice of the Founder, Lord Baden-Powell, to give the Silver Wolf to Scouters in any country who had done outstandingly valuable work for the Movement. The Silver Wolf was first awarded to King's Scouts or King's Sea Scouts of at least 2 years service and who earned 12 proficiency badges, who performed under exceptional circumstances like saving a life or repeated acts of bravery, endurance, or self-sacrifice. This Silver Wolf remained a Youth award until 1922, when it became an award for Adult volunteers for Services to Scouting.
The award was of course highly valued, but it began to be realized that the Silver Wolf was a British Scout decoration, even though it was given by the Chief Scout of the World. Accordingly, in 1934, the Bronze Wolf Award was created as the only award made by the World Scout Committee.
Recipients[]
- Hazel Adair (novelist)
- Demetrios Alexatos
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
- Vera Barclay
- Daniel Carter Beard
- Edward Wentworth Beatty
- Annie Besant[1]
- Glad Bincham
- Walter von Bonstetten
- John Buchan
- Carol II of Romania
- Mario di Carpegna
- Bernard Chacksfield
- Jean Corbisier
- Donald Deacon
- Juan Antonio Dimas
- Haydn Dimmock
- William Gentry
- Michal Grazynski[2]
- Jacques Guérin-Desjardins
- Gustaf V
- Victor Halward
- Charles Hoadley
- Forbes Howie
- [3]
- André Lefèvre (Scouting)
- Colin H. Livingstone
- William de Bois Maclaren
- Hubert S. Martin
- Douglas Mawson
- John May (youth worker)
- Roy Morris[4]
- Garth Morrison
- P. B. Nevill
- Louis-Clément Picalausa
- Rudolf Plajner
- Roger Plumb[5]
- Jean Jacques Rambonnet
- Henry Way Rymill
- Jacques Sevin
- Sano Tsuneha
- Mortimer L. Schiff
- Alec Spalding
- Francis George Stevens
- John Rous, 4th Earl of Stradbroke
- George Turner Waldegrave
- W. F. Waters
- James E. West
- John Frederick Wilkinson
- J. S. Wilson[6]
- Simon C. Yew
- [7]
References[]
- ^ "DE PADVINDERIJ IN BRITSCH-INDIË". January 7, 1933 – via KB NBM C 44 [Microfilm].
- ^ "Leider der Poolsche padvinders onderscheiden". January 21, 1938 – via KB NBM C 44 [Microfilm].
- ^ "Scouting Milestones by Colin Walker and Scouting Radio: Scouting Personalities". February 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ "Scouting stalwart earns top honour". Coventry Telegraph. 2 May 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ Hastings and St. Leonards Observer: Memorial service for well-loved Hastings Scout leader Roger Plumb | Hastings and St. Leonards Observer, accessdate: 16 September 2021
- ^ "Int. Padvindersconferentie in het Gemeentemuseum Opening door prof. Slotemaker de Bruine". August 10, 1937 – via KB NBM C 44 [Microfilm].
- ^ https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19020640.southampton-scout-leader-celebrated-highest-award-five-decades-service/.
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- "The Bronze Wolf". WOSM Resource Center. Retrieved February 20, 2006.
- "Scout Awards and the Cornwell Badge" (PDF). The Scout Association. Retrieved July 17, 2007.
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