A part of the Girl Peace Scouts joined the Voluntary Aid Detachments during World War I.

[1] Before 1939, the Boy Scouts’ Association in the United Kingdom sponsored juvenile immigration to Queensland.

Also that year, the BSA's Queensland branch constitution was changed to remove State Council's elected local representatives.

[1] In June 1943, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, the Governor of Queensland, resigned as The Boy Scouts Association Chief Scout of Queensland in opposition to a large portion of public donations going towards the many salaries of headquarters staff, making the Chief Commissioner a paid position and its failure to respond to his call for reforms to its centralisation efforts.

[4] Several scouts-in-exile groups started in the 1940s for eastern European scouts, including the "Plast Ukrainian Youth Association in Brisbane, Queensland".

[2] St. Enoch's Presbyterian Church, Mount Morgan, Queensland formed its unit on 23 November 1908, under Benjamin Gilmore Patterson.

Patterson was in the militia from 1900 to 1904 in the Sydney University Scouts with Sir Leslie Orme Wilson.

The unit was registered with the Boys' Brigade (BB) Scouts as the 1st Mount Morgan Company in 1910.

[2] The Boy Scout Association moved for government monopoly status and centralised control.

Also that year, the BSA's Queensland branch constitution was changed to remove State Council's elected local representatives.

In 1942, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, The Governor of Queensland, resigned as chief scout of Queensland Branch due to the failure of the BSA to respond to his call for reforms to its centralisation effort that led to the severance of the Blue Boy Scouts' tie to the BSA.

[2] 1909 (1909) (state organisation) July 2, 1910 (1910-07-02) (Home Headquarters, London affiliation) The current chief commissioner for Scouts Queensland is Geoff Doo.

[16] Miss Marjorie Frances Grimes (1895–1956), of 'Tarragindi', south Brisbane, was instrumental in the formation of today's organisation.

[17] Grimes was the leader of the Tarragindi Girl Scouts (formed circa 1915), which became one of the first registered companies to the new state organisation in 1920.

[19] From the British Royal charters of 1922 and 1949, the association is incorporated under the Guides Queensland Act 1970 (Qld).

[23] The organisation has several properties, but principally the Kindilan Outdoor Education and Conference Centre, Redland Bay.