Mafeking Messenger Corps Named Forerunner of Boy Scouts
The Mafeking Messenger Corps is described as a forerunner of the Boy Scouts. The article notes a founder couple, with wife Catrina aged 83, and mentions Brakpan, a once rich gold mining town about 20 miles east of Johannesburg.
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Soca Ester Evening Star
Mafeking Messenger Corps
Boy Scouts Atly
Bien
Mafeking
Catrina
Brak
Pan
Johan
Mafeking Messenger Corps Founding Ties to Scout Origin
In Brakpan South Africa Linden Bradfield Webster recalls joining Mafeking cadets in 1898 during the siege that shaped Baden-Powell. The Mafeking Messenger Corps inspired the 1908 Scout movement in England. Webster later served as dispatch rider and earned two medals. He later worked underground in mines for 42 years and married in 1910.
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Brakpan
South Africa
Japan
Linden Bradfield Webster
Webster
Mafeking
Sereen
Wasaware
Cape Town
Bulawayo
Rhodesia
Baden-Powell
Messenger Corps
Boy Scouts
England
Messenger’ Corps
British Army
British South Africa Police
Test Chute for Use on Mars
NASA says tests start Friday at El Centro for the Viking parachute system to land two instrument packages on Mars in 1976. A 53 foot main chute deploys from a 10 foot long drop vehicle after release from a B57 at 50 000 feet.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mars
Defense Department
el Centro
Earth
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