Story of the world’s first Boy Scout who died a hero

At the tender age of 15 young ‘Bob’ Wroughton became the world’s first Boy Scout, and had a glittering career of success in front of him. Yet just seven short years later, he became one of the first to die in the killing fields of the First World War.

Now for the first time, his story can be told, after a remarkable archive of documents and pictures …

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