| 3. World Scout Jamboree 1929 | |
|---|---|
| Thema | Coming of Age Jamboree |
| Ort | Arrowe Park, Birkenhead |
| Land | Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Datum | 29. Juli bis 12. August 1929 |
| Teilnehmer | 50.000 Pfadfinder, 300.000 Besucher |
| Vorgänger | 2. World Scout Jamboree 1924 |
| Nachfolger | 4. World Scout Jamboree 1933 |
Das 3. World Scout Jamboree wurde 1929 in Arrowe Park in Birkenhead im Vereinigten Königreich veranstaltet. Zur Feier des 21. Geburtstages von Scouting for Boys und der Pfadfinderbewegung, wurde es Coming of Age Jamboree genannt. Mit 50.000 teilnehmenden Pfadfindern und über 300.000 Besuchern, war das 3. Jamboree das größte.[1][2][3]
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Das Jamboree, dass auf einer 1,8 km2 großen Fläche veranstaltet wurde, wurde am 29. Juli von Prince Arthur, 1. Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, dem damaligen Präsidenten der Boy Scout Association,eröffnet. Während der ersten Woche war das Wetter so schlecht, dass sich das Grass in Schlamm verwandelte, was dem Jamboree seinen Spitznamen einbrachte: „Jamboree of mud“ (dt. „Jamboree des Schlamms“).[4][5]
Das Lager war in acht Unterlager aufgeteilt, die rund um einen extra angelegten Platz in der verteilt waren. Der Platz wurde Midway genannt und bei ihm konnten die Pfadfinder benötigtes Material und Essen kaufen. Die Organisation verschiedener täglicher Aktivitäten wurde durch verschiedene Gruppen getätigt.[5][6][7]
Die Pfadfinderinnen in Cheshire organisierten die medizinische Versorgung vor Ort. Über 2500 Patienten wurde vor Ort behandelt, 52 mussten im Krankenhaus behandelt werden. Dabei wurde eine große Banbreite an Verletzungen abgedeckt, es gab kleinere Schnittwunden, Verbennungen, aber auch Frakturen und Kopfverletzungen. Es wurde auch eine Medikamentenausgabe organisiert, bei der es sowohl frei-erhältliche, als auch verschreibungspflichtige Medikamente gab. Vor Ort gab es auch zahnärztliche Versorgung und die Möglichkeit einfache Operationen durchzuführen. Die Kantine der Krankenstation versorgte alle Patienten, sowie alle 50 Mitglieder des Teams, wobei alle Speisen über offenem Feuer zubereitet wurden. Da die Krankenstation vor allem durch „Girl Guides“, also weibliche Pfadfinderinnen, geleitet wurde, konnten diese ihr Ansehen gegenüber den Jungen verbessern, was die Akzeptanz von Mädchengruppen erhöhte.[8]
Veranstaltungen während dem Jamboree Bearbeiten
On Baden-Powell a peerage was to be conferred by King George V, as was announced on 2 August by the Prince of Wales who attended the Jamboree in Scout uniform. The formal title of Baron Baden-Powell, of Gilwell, co. Essex was granted on 17 September 1929, confirming the high notion Baden-Powell had of education and training, after Gilwell Park where the international Scout Leader training in the Wood Badge course took place.[9][10]
In the morning of Sunday 4 August, an open air thanksgiving service was held, presided by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, and by Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, for Protestant and Catholic Scouts; and later that day a service was also held in Liverpool Cathedral.[5]
On 10 August, the Chief Scout Sir Robert Baden-Powell was given special attention. On behalf of all Scouts worldwide, he was presented with a Rolls-Royce motor car and a caravan trailer. The caravan was nicknamed Eccles and is now on display at Gilwell Park. These gifts were paid for by penny donations of more than 1 million Scouts worldwide. The car, nicknamed Jam Roll, was sold after his death by Olave Baden-Powell in 1945. Jam Roll and Eccles were reunited at Gilwell for the 21st World Scout Jamboree in 2007. Recently it has been purchased on behalf of Scouting and is owned by a charity, B–P Jam Roll Ltd. Funds are being raised to repay the loan that was used to purchase the car.[11][12] Also he was given an oil painted portrait by David Jagger, which since has been used as a publicity picture by many Scout organizations. It is on display in the Baden-Powell House. Lastly, Baden-Powell was given a cheque for £2,750 and an illuminated address.[13]
Abschlusszeremonie und Golden Arrow Bearbeiten
The farewell ceremony on the last day, 12 August, consisted of a march with flags and banners past the royal box with the Chief Scout and other officers, ending in a Wheel of Friendship formed by the Scouts, with 21 spokes symbolic for the 21 years of Scouting. While burying a hatchet in a cask of gilded wooden arrows, Baden-Powell addressed the gathered Scouts.
- Here is the hatchet of war, of enmity, of bad feeling, which I now bury in Arrowe. From all corners of the world you came to the call of brotherhood and to Arrowe. Now I send you forth to your homelands bearing the sign of peace, good-will and fellowship to all your fellow men. From now on in Scouting the symbol of peace and goodwill is a golden arrow. Carry that arrow on and on, so that all may know of the brotherhood of men.
Then he sent the golden arrows as peace symbols to the North, South, West, and East, through the spokes of the Wheel of Friendship.
- I want you all to go back from here to your countries in different parts of the world with a new idea in your minds of having brothers in every country... Go forth from here as ambassadors of goodwill and friendship. Every one of you Scouts, no matter how young or small, can spread a good word about this country and those whom you have met here. Try to make yourselves better Scouts than ever; try to help other boys, especially the poorer boys, to be happy, healthy, and helpful citizens like yourselves. And now, farewell, goodbye, God Bless you all.[2][3][5][14]
The Golden Arrows are wooden gilded, about 40 centimeter-long. It is not certain how many arrows there were. Three of the Golden Arrows are placed in England. One in the Museum at the Youlbury Scout Activity Centre, near Oxford. The other, given to the Polish contingent in 1929, was last seen in 2000 in Warsaw, Poland.[15] Vorlage:Citation needed
- "In the early part of the Second World War a Polish soldier was taken prisoner in his own country and managed to escape. He was a Scout, and had been the one to receive the Golden Arrow from the hands of the Chief at the Jamboree at Arrowe Park on the coming-of-age of Scouting in 1929. He had lost everything – home, family, and all that he held most dear – except one precious possession – the Golden Arrow, in rough wood, which he was determined to take away with him. After passing through many adventures he reached Great Britain. Nothing arrived except one brave worn-out Polish soldier and his Golden Arrow. He sought out a Scout whom he knew, and by whom he had been taught his Scouting in the old days at Gilwell Park. To him he gave the Arrow, saying that for the present it was no longer of any use to him. He had brought it to the only haven he knew. It was afterwards given into the safe keeping of small, country troop, who looked upon it with great pride. The Chief never knew this story, but would have loved it if he had, and might truly have said:
I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth I know not where...
- Some day, when war is over and peace has come, the Arrow will go back to Poland. That is what the brotherhood of Scouts does for people. That is the spirit of Scouting. And badly will that spirit of comradeship be needed for the reconstruction of the world that lies ahead."[16]
In 1996, during the camp celebrating the re-admittance to World Scouting of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association, the Golden Arrow was given to Polish International Commissioner.
Memorabilia Bearbeiten
For the event a memorial sculpture by sculptor Edward Carter Preston was erected in 1931 at an entrance to the park, now within the grounds of Arrowe Park Hospital. It was commissioned by the Boy Scout Movement, and unveiled by Lord Hampton, the Headquarter's Commissioner. After restoration in the early 1980s, it was re-unveiled in 1983 by the then Chief Scout Major-General Michael Walsh.[17]
Weiterführende Literatur Bearbeiten
- Claude Fisher: The World Jamboree, 1929: the quest for the Golden Arrow. The Boy Scouts Association, 1929, ASIN B0008D276Y, S. 151 pages.
Weblinks Bearbeiten
Einzelnachweise Bearbeiten
- ↑ History of the World Scout Jamboree. In: Scout.org. World Scout Bureau Inc., Oktober 2013, abgerufen am 3. Mai 2020 (englisch).
- ↑ a b Jamboree Histories. The Scout Association, archiviert vom am 4. Oktober 2006; abgerufen am 17. September 2006.
- ↑ a b Jamboree Histories. World Organization of the Scout Movement, archiviert vom am 8. September 2006; abgerufen am 17. September 2006.
- ↑ 1929 Jamboree » Pine Tree Web Home Page. Abgerufen am 3. Juni 2020.
- ↑ a b c d Kevin Snair: Scouting with staves and stetsons. Scouter Kevin, archiviert vom am 23. Oktober 2009; abgerufen am 17. September 2006.
- ↑ History of the 1929 World Jamboree. David L Eby, archiviert vom am 2. Januar 2006; abgerufen am 17. September 2006.
- ↑ Bronx Valley Council Contingent, World Jamboree, Arrowe Park, England, 1929. U.S. Scouting Service Project, abgerufen am 18. September 2006.
- ↑ Rose Kerr: Story of the Girl Guides 1908–1938. Girl Guides Association, Great Britain 1976.
- ↑ 3rd World Jamboree. Pine Tree, archiviert vom am 21. Oktober 2006; abgerufen am 17. September 2006.
- ↑ Family history, Person Page 876. The Peerage, abgerufen am 1. Januar 2007.
- ↑ "Johnny" Walker's Scouting Milestones. Archiviert vom am 5. September 2008; abgerufen am 3. September 2008.
- ↑ B–P Jam Roll Limited. Abgerufen am 3. September 2008.
- ↑ John S. Wilson: Scouting Round the World. 1. Auflage. Blandford Press, 1959.
- ↑ relation from the Jamboree
- ↑ according to the letter from John May to Alan Strong dated on 4 August 2004 and to the oral relations of ZHP's national headquarters' workers (December 2008)
- ↑ Marguerite de Beaumont, The Wolf That Never Sleeps, London 1944
- ↑ Memorial to World Boy Scout Jamboree. Public Monument and Sculpture Association, archiviert vom am 23. Mai 2010; abgerufen am 18. September 2006.