BADEN-POWELL MARRIED
GIRL SCOUT AS BRIDE
LONDON, Octobtr 30.
Major-General Sir R. S. S. BadenPowell, the leader of the boy scout movement, was married at Dorset today to Miss Olive St. Clair Scomes. The ceremony' was of a quiet nature. The bride qualified as a girl scout before the wedding came off.
Lady Baden-Powell is a taH, slim brunette, and the veteran soldier met her while he was travelling in the West Indies in January last before he came to Australia. She is very wealthy. The General’s marriage will make no difference to his connection with the boy scout movement. He says, “I will never leave the scouts, though Cupid has pierced the heart of their chief. ’ ’ General Baden-Powell, who was familiarly known at school by the sobriquet of “Bathing-Towel,” is 55 years of age. He has never been married before. His wife is 23, and curiously enough, her birthdty is on the same day as her husband’s February 12.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1912, Page 6
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