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BERE REGIS HISTORY SOCIETY and Katharine for hosting the Explorers at this camp.

In the summer term, there are more outdoor activities planned to take place at
Our March meeting took place on the Buddens Scout Adventures. The Explorers will be getting out and about on their
third Wednesday, the 20th, at 7.30pm at bikes in order to practice for their summer camp, which is to revisit the French
the Village Hall. We began with a short and Belgium WW1 battlefield sites on bicycle and to find out more about the
talk on Bere Regis's first photographer, men who lost their lives during the war.
John White Boswell, who began taking

photos in 1863, some of which were of
the village, but many more were portraits DofE News
of families and eminent people. Next,
with World War One still in our minds, a Massive congratulations to Daniel Miller who has now achieved his Gold DofE
1917 Trench Mortar was displayed, to gasps, and illustrated the brutal nature of award. This is the highest level of the award and during the last couple of years
the later years of that conflict. Then Paul talked about the photo exhibition at the Dan has been volunteering in the lower sections of the Scout Group, completed
two wild country 4 day expeditions in Dartmoor, took part in a week’s residential
Village Hall on 24th March, where some favourite photos together with some new
finds will be shown. After that we had course learning new water activities and has also completed his new skills and
another short talk on John Hutchins, physical sections of the award. He will be presented with the award in a special
ceremony at either Buckingham Palace or St James’s Palace within the next
Dorset's original historian, his life and the
showing of his first edition, two-volume year. A fantastic achievement - well done!
book, of 1774. Of particular interest to
members was the section on Bere Regis Scout News
parish. To finish off we had an array of
pottery examples covering the last 2,000 It seems that Scout nights are about fitness at
years, arranged in order and properly the moment – hidden by it the fact that it is fun
labelled, so that we are in a better so they don’t actually notice they are
position to identify what we can all find in exercising! A trip to Poole to the Project
our gardens during the coming Climbing Centre was a huge success and will
gardening season. There were a number no doubt form part of our yearly planning along
of new documents and publications for with ice skating and Dorset Water Park trip.
members to study, while refreshments Many scouts overcame their fears and scaled
were available. the walls under
the expert tuition
John Pitfield
of the instructors
Project Secretary and gained
credits for the
badges they are working towards. Chocolate was
the reward for the Easter themed relay races after
a great game of hockeyball (a combination of
football with hockey sticks with 2 scouts going
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others ran the other way when the bunnies arrived.
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