Granville Walton

Granville Walton

Lieutenant Colonel Granville Walton served as Headquarters Commissioner for Overseas Scouts for The Boy Scouts Association. The Boy Scouts Association encouraged its branches to seek control of the Scout Movement by obtaining statutory monopolies from respective local governments. This was the major purpose of the visits by Overseas Commissioners Walton and Alfred Pickford in the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1955, Walton was awarded the "Bronze Wolf", the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting. at the 15th World Scout Conference.

References

*Dr. László Nagy, "250 Million Scouts", The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985, complete list through 1981, from which the French Scoutopedia article is sourced
*"Scouting Round the World", John S. Wilson, first edition, Blandford Press 1959 p. 79 91 271

External links

* [http://fr.scoutwiki.org/Liste_des_personnes_distingu%C3%A9es_du_loup_de_bronze French Scoutopedia article]


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