Baden-Powell’s final words to the Boy Scouts

Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement, died on 8th January 1941.

The Evening Telegraph reported that his last words to the Boy Scouts were “sleeves up and with tails up, go to it to win the war.”

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Evening Telegraph – 8 January 1941
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