Youth Group French Tour: Organization


Figure 1.--Some of the boys are obviously Boy Scouts, but the boys here are in rather unusual uniforms. These boys are wearing suits that look more like school uniforms. Their caps have crests that are difficult to make out. They look somewhat like Wold Cub pins, but the American Boy Scout Association (BSA) did not yet have a Cub program. Of course the boys could be in an experimental program or could be a local group. The fact that they are wearing long pants almost certainly indicates that they are American.

Here we have a fascinating set of images taken by a Paris newspaper. We are not entirely sure, however, about the group shown. We see boys marching through Paris and then camping un the country side. Some of the boys are obviously Boy Scouts, but others are in rather unusual uniforms. Some of the boys are clearly American, but we do not know for sure that they all are. Nor are we positive that they all are Boy Scouts. Some of the boys are wearing suits that look more like school uniforms. Their caps have crests that are difficult to make out. They look somewhat like Wold Cub pins, but the American Boy Scout Association (BSA) did not yet have a Cub program. Of course the boys could be in an experimental program or could be a local group experimenting with Cubbing. I have, however, never noted a Cub uniform quite like this. And we note in another photograph older boys wearing the same uniform. One carries a flag with the lettering "American" so we know that these boys are American although we are not at all sure about the group to which they belong. The fact that they are wearing long pants almost certainly indicates that they are American. From the look of the image here, there is a fairly large group, but the uniforms of the boy in the extreme rear of the column are difficult to make out. They look like more Scouts, probably American Scouts. The fact that all the flags and banners are in English, suggests to us that these are all American boys. And they are probably all Scouts, although we are not sure about this.







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