Connections With Baden-Powell
As well as its claim to having the first official overseas Scouting organisation, Malta has other connections to the founder of Scouting. Robert Baden-Powell's uncle, Henry Augustus Smyth, was governor-general of the island in 1890-1893. Baden-Powell himself served as Assistant Military Secretary for his uncle during these years, and also as Intelligence Officer for the Mediterranean.
Baden-Powell would return many times to the island, including as part of his honeymoon with Lady Olave, and maintained a fondness for the island and the Maltese Scouters. Shortly before his death in 1940, Baden-Powell wrote in a final letter to the island's Scouts:
- to congratulate my old friends, the Maltese on the plucky way they have stood up to the infernal bombing of the Italians ... They have the spirit of fearlessness and patience which enables them to face danger with a smile to stick it out to the triumphant finish ...
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