In Hilary Saint George Saunders' The Left Handshake, written in 1948: In Burma, organized Scouting did not survive the advent of the Japanese.

Of all the Rangoon Troops who helped to mitigate their effect, the 51st Kandawgalay took pride of place, not only for the number of Scouts belonging to it engaged in National Service, but also because of their great devotion to duty in time of danger.

When the Auxiliary Fire Service left Rangoon with the retreating army, the Scouts went with them and moved successively to Mandalay, Maymyo and Shwebo.

Most of them went farther and under their officers tramped the long road through the Naga Hills to Imphal and on to Assam and India.

Scouting in that district was due to the enthusiasm of a Gurkha Preventive Officer, who formed all the official and influential men in the town into a Local Association.

Burma sent a representative to the 1957 Far East Scouters' Regional Pow-Wow held at Sutton Park, England.

Tin Tun represented UBBS in the five-man Far East Scout Advisory Committee (FESAC).

Burma's Ba Htay was elected one of the earliest chairmen of FESAC, which would later become the Asia-Pacific Region, and served from 1958 to 1960.

Aside from the traditional UBBS scheme for training youth in patrols and troops, the visibility of Scouting in the urban and rural communities consisted of citywide Cleaning Week campaigns, "Safety-on-the-Road" services, and Cub Scout rallies at Rangoon's Inyale Training Center.

Democratic rule ended in 1962 when General Ne Win led a military coup d'état.

Almost all aspects of society (business, media, production) were nationalized or brought under government control (including the Boy Scouts).

[2] On 1 March 1964, the Union of Burma Revolutionary Council (the ruling military junta at the time) dissolved the UBBS, Lieutenant Ye Htoon, the Director General of UBBSGG reported.

The motto of Myanmar scouts and girl guides is "အစဉ်အသင့်" (Always prepared) and their slogan is "ကောင်းမှုတစ်ခုနေ့စဉ်ပြု" (Do a good thing everyday).