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The Tamale Local Boy Scouts Association in the Northern Territories Protectorate in the 1920s
Author(s)
Doris S. Essah
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2018.06.005
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University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
ABSTRACT
In 1907, military leader
Robert Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts Association in England as the
British colonial government officers instituted Tamale village as the
administrative centre of the Northern Territories Protectorate. Sam Yarney
worked with Frank Collyer the European bank cashier and scoutmaster who started
the Boy Scouts in the Gold Coast Colony in 1914, the year the First World War
started. In 1922, Governor Gordon Guggisberg, who was brigadier general during
the war was the chief scout. He reorganized the Local Boy Scouts Association in
the Tamale Government School that received select boys from various schools in
the Northern Territories Protectorate. The schoolboys excelled in the Standard
VII and Civil Service Examinations to work with the government institutions and
train as teachers and telegraphists. Arthur James Philbrick the chief scout
commissioner of the Northern Territories employed Yarney as the assistant scout
commissioner in the Southern Province to take on the staff of the reorganized Tamale
Local Boy Scouts Association and register the 1st Tamale Troop. The scout
officers subscribed to a Scout Fund to buy kit, for the schoolboys who passed
the Tenderfoot Tests to buy uniforms and perform at events.
KEYWORDS
Local Boy Scouts Association, 1920s, uniforms, Tamale Government School, Northern Territories Protectorate, Gold Coast Colony
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