On my honour I will, without fear or reward, protect the weak, defend the helpless, and assist my neighbour.

Assisting were Colonel Frederick Charles Keyser, President BBS and H. Moore secretary of the Battersea Boy Scouts.

Cassell merged their patrols with the BBS and allowed them to publish a weekly page June 1909 until mid-1911.

Readers were interested in forming Scouting groups and the editorial staff initially supported this move, indicating that Baden-Powell would be consulted.

[4] Sir Francis Vane was appointed as the first London Commissioner of the Baden-Powell Boy Scouts organisation.

With Vane pushing for a more democratic organisation, his position was eliminated by Baden-Powell's headquarter staff.

In a protest meeting, the London area Scoutmasters voted overwhelming in support of Sir Francis Vane.

Members of the National Service League, a pro-military group, were appointed to the Baden-Powell Boy Scouts headquarters.

On 3 December 1909, Vane accepted the presidency of the British Boy Scouts taking most London area Troops with him.

A Scout is loyal to the Queen, his/her Country, his/her Parents, his/her Officers and to comrades high and low.

With the spread of the alternative British Boy Scouts program throughout the world via the CHUMS publication[6] and Vane's efforts, Vane informally aligned the various groups as the Legion of World Scouts, the first international organisation.

Vane kept in contact, and in 1915, home from leave from his duties for the Army in Ireland, inspected a Troop under London Commissioner, Percy Herbert Pooley.

In 1926, a broader bill to protect all Chartered Associations was passed but with a clause by Herbert Dunnico, a Labour MP and a BBS Scoutmaster, that exempted any 'bona fide national organisation' from the act, such as the British Boy Scouts.

Knighton had resigned without waiting for the outcome of the legislation and formed "the British Boy Sentinels", a non-Scouting organisation.

Sir Francis in vain tried to reconcile the BBS with The Boy Scouts Association after returning from Italy in 1927.

They required the BBS to disband, and Troops and individuals apply in the normal way – without any reassurance as to the acceptance of units.

The Young Life Pioneers by 1930's either joined the Boys' Brigade or became BBS Troops.

In response some Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire Troops under the Assistant Chief Commissioner W. Hanley broke off from the main group using "British Boy Scouts" for about a year, only to return.

[9] The World War II call up of Scoutmasters and youth evacuations reduced the BBS to 8 Troops.

By 1971, Brown was Chief Commissioner and led the lone BBS Troop in Lewisham, South London.

[9] The St Stephens House Rover Crew in Oxford, led by Michael Foster, joined the BBS in 1979.

In 1983, the Reverend Michael Foster (who by that time was a Parish Priest in the Church of England, Vicar of Holy Trinity Clifton, Nottingham) was appointed Chief Commissioner by Charles Brown, who went on to become Grand Scoutmaster.

Several Troops which left the Baden-Powell Scouts' Association under the Banner of the Ex Deputy Area commission Ray O'Donnell-Hampton.

[9] In January 1993, Ted Scott, a friend of Pooley and long time BBS member, became the Grand Scoutmaster following the death of Charles Brown in November 1992 and served seven years becoming the first Grand Scout Emeritus when Dr Michael Foster replaced him.

Ted Scott died after being ill on 3 March 2009, after serving 83 years in the BBS.

[5] Several Scoutmasters joined the BBS from The Boy Scouts Association Queensland Branch with an attempt at reconciliation in 1911.

turmoil after 1912, the SA BBS rebuffed Baden-Powell's effort to have them join The Boy Scout Association instead renaming themselves Naval Cadets.

[6] The British Boy Scouts were also organised in Canada, New Zealand, India, Creillos, South America and Egypt.