2011 St George’s Day Award Recipients ROLL OF HONOUR

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Each year, we take this opportunity to recognise exceptional people whose extraordinary dedication and commitment to young people and has been marked with a St George’s Day Award.

Recognition means different things to different people. forward to welcoming many of you and to thank you Some like to be thanked in a public way for their personally for your achievements. achievements, whilst others prefer to keep it low-key. Both Congratulations again and a very big thank you on reactions are fine and need to be respected but I would behalf of our young people and society as a whole to all like to add my own very loud Congratulations to all. our volunteers who help to make a difference. The awards and the reasons behind them are all very much deserved. We recognise those who have gone that little bit further in their support of Scouting. The St George’s Day Awards are also an opportunity to mention the truly inspiring recipients of Gallantry and Meritorious Awards who have shown such courage and determination in the most challenging of circumstances. A read of the citations is such a humbling experience. We know that the Section and Unit leaders who deliver exciting and inspiring programmes are at the forefront of making a difference to the lives of young people. But we also need to recognise those individuals who motivate, inspire and support adults to ensure they can do what they do best. This reflects a true partnership which is at the very heart of our continued success. This year we will be joining with Girl Guiding UK for a service at Westminster Abbey on 5 November and I look

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Oliver Greenwood, Cub Scout, 1st St Gallantry Medal for Lawrence in Thanet, Thanet, Kent Suzie Gregory, Explorer Scout, Llangollen Awards Meritorious Dragons Explorer Unit, Llangollen, Clwyd Matthew Hughes, Beaver Scout, 17th Awards for gallantry are made by Conduct Wakefield (Outwood Church), Wakefield, the Chief Scout, to Beaver Scouts, Central Yorkshire Cub Scouts, Scouts, Explorer Scouts, The Medal of Meritorious Conduct is Charlie Hunt, Cub Scout, 1st Calverton, Scout Network Members, Scout awarded for meritorious conduct of Central Notts, Nottinghamshire an exceptionally high standard. Active Support Members, Adult George Jones, Explorer Scout, Llangollen Leaders, Section Assistants, Skills Andrew Philip Bull, Assistant Explorer Dragons Explorer Unit, Llangollen, Clwyd Matthew Jones, Cub Scout, 1st Ickenham, Instructors, Administrators, Advisers , Network Member, Glendon, Northamptonshire Uxbridge & District, Gt. Middlesex and Honorary Scouters. The awards Caitlin Elsworth, Scout, 7th Hornchurch West are given for acts which would nor- (Methodist), Hornchurch, Gt. London North Michael Wright Kenny, Explorer Scout, mally include an element of personal East 3rd Hayling (Brotherhood Own), Havant, risk. There are three levels of award John Fenlon, District Scout Active Support Hampshire Member, Camp Warden, West Leeds, Central Henry Knew, Cub Scout, 6th Wrexham, – The Bronze Cross, The Silver Cross Wrexham and District, Clwyd and The Gilt Cross. In 2010 only the Yorkshire Daniel Green, Scout, 8th Dartford (Holy Emily Abigail Koehler, Network Member, Gilt Cross was awarded Trinity), Dartford, Kent Stanford-le-hope and District, Essex Sophie Haward, Explorer Scout, Viking George Littler,Cub Scout, 26th St. Helens Explorers, Macclesfield & Congleton, Cheshire (Blackbrook), St. Helens, Merseyside Peter David Hughes, Group Scout Leader, Paul Lowe, Cub Scout, 161st Derby (Hilton), The Gilt Cross Dalston, Reivers, Cumbria Derby North, Derbyshire Jack Kick, Scout, 22nd Southgate (Our Lady Jordan Marks, Scout, 9th Tonbridge The Gilt Cross is awarded for gallantry of Lourdes), Southgate, Gt. London North (Capel), Tonbridge, Kent in circumstances of moderate risk. Wendy Irene Manley (deceased), Richard Michael Muench, Assistant Scout formerly Beaver Scout Leader, 9th Erith Air Leader, 1st Offerton, Stockport, Gt. Daniel George Hemmings, Scout Leader, Scout Group, Erith and Crayford, Gt. London Manchester East Network Member, 64th , Tame South East Philip Charles Oakley, District Explorer Valley Birmingham Scout Leader, Ripon and District, County Daniel Jones, Explorer Scout, Viking Adviser for Caving, North Yorkshire Explorers, Macclesfield & Congleton, Cheshire Mark Lawrence Phillips,District Matthew Craig Roberts, Assistant Beaver Commissioner, Medway Towns, Kent Scout Leader, 34th Bradford South (Gt Horton Max Pryor, Scout, Chadwell St Mary, Methodist Church), West Yorkshire Thurrock, Essex Matthew Oliver Whitehouse, Scout Barnabas Pycroft, Explorer Scout, 3rd Leader, 64th Birmingham, Tame Valley Hayling (Brotherhood Own), Havant, Birmingham Hampshire Alexandros Rossi, Scout Sectional The Chief Scout’s Assistant, Network Member, 64th Birmingham, Tame Valley Birmingham Commendation Thomas Rouselle, Beaver Scout, 1st Bierton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire for Meritorious Caitlin Joan Sandilands, Scout, 17th Colton Methodist, Leeds Templars, Central Conduct Yorkshire Gavin Scott, Explorer Scout, Llangollen The Chief Scout’s Commendation for Meritorious Meritorious Conduct is awarded Dragons Explorer Unit, Llangollen, Clwyd for meritorious conduct of a high Sam Smith, Scout, 6th Macclesfield (Parish Conduct Awards standard. Church), Macclesfield & Congleton, Cheshire Awards for meritorious conduct are Alan Stewart, Scout Leader, 1st Edgmond, made by the Chief Scout to Beaver Victoria Alex, Explorer Scout, Northampton, Tern Valley, Shropshire Stephen William Sutton, Assistant Group Scouts, Cub Scouts, Scouts, Explorer Northamptonshire Rhys Branch, Scout, 11th Bournemouth (St Scout Leader, 1st Langley, Slough, Royal Scouts, Scout Network Members, Christopher), Bournemouth Avon, Dorset Berkshire Scout Active Support Members, Adult Richard Bruce FRSA MBA, Deputy County Jennifer Doris Turner, Cub Scout Leader, Leaders, Section Assistants, Skills In- Commissioner, Shropshire 24th (Cavendish), City of structors, Administrators, Advisers and Matthew Chandler, Scout, Great Barford Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Honorary Scouters. Awards are made (Bedford), Bedford, Bedfordshire Jake Whistlecraft, Explorer Scout, 3rd Rosie Cliff, Scout – Patrol Leader, 22nd Hayling (Brotherhood Own), Havant, for conduct involving a high degree Bootle and District (Christ Church), Bootle and Hampshire of courage, endurance, initiative or District, Merseyside Alan Whiteley,Scout Leader, 6th Holme devotion to duty, often under suffer- James Cragg, Explorer Scout, Llangollen Valley, District Commissioner, Assistant District ing, without necessarily involving any Dragons Explorer Unit, Llangollen, Clwyd Commissioner (Scouts), Holme Valley, West element of risk. There are two levels Sam Dodd, Explorer Scout, Llangollen Yorkshire Dragons Explorer Unit, Llangollen, Clwyd Jacob Samuel Willie, Scout, 127th Bristol of award – The Medal for Meritorious Andrew James Frey, Scout Leader, 1st (St Annes), Bristol South, Avon Conduct and The Chief Scout’s Com- Pulborough and West Chiltington, Petworth Ben Wilton, Scout, Wessex Scout Group, mendation for Meritorious Conduct. and Pulborough, West Sussex Yeovil & District, Somerset

St George’s Day 3 Silver Wolf May Alderson MBE, District President, Howard George Desmond, Group Flintshire, Clwyd President, Group Chairman, 29th , Michael Harper Aston, Assistant County District Executive Member, Cardiff East & Commissioner (International), Hertfordshire South, Cardiff & Vale Of Glamorgan Ralph William Barnard, Assistant District Jillian Edwards, Cub Scout Leader, Beaver Commissioner (Scouts), District Scout Active Scout Leader, Group Scout Leader (Acting), 1st Support Member, Lichfield, Staffordshire Bicester, District Executive Member, District Derek Ernest Bayliss MBE, District Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Administrator, District Nights Away Adviser, Bicester, Oxfordshire Wansdyke, Avon Leslie Charles Evans, Group Chairman, James Charles Berry, Group Chairman, 1st 12th Lewisham South (1st Downham), Corbets Tey, Hornchurch, Local Training Lewisham District, Gt. London South Manager, Trainer, Gt. London North East Godfrey Hamilton Foot, District Executive Duncan Black, Group Treasurer, 3rd Glasgow Member, Teignbridge, County Vice President, (Waverley), South Western, Clyde – Scotland Devon John Albert Blundell, Group Scout Leader, David Robert Gerrard, Deputy Area ‘In recognition of services 15th St Pancras, Camden City & Islington Commissioner, Area Executive Member, District, Gt. London North Assistant Area Commissioner (Relationships), to Scouting of the most Sheila Madge Brear, Appointments Cardiff & Vale Of Glamorgan exceptional nature’ Secretary, District Member, District Vice Reverend George Dymock, Goldie District Chairman, District Secretary, District Vice Appointments Chairman, Aberdeen, President, Glendon, Northamptonshire Safeguarding Awareness Co-ordinator, North Geoffrey Stephen Brown IEng MIET, East – Scotland Assistant Scout Leader, 2nd Cowes (St Mary’s) Elsbeth Golding, formerly Assistant District Sea Scouts, Deputy County Commissioner, Commissioner (Scout Fellowship), County Assistant County Commissioner (International), Adviser, Oxfordshire Assistant County Commissioner (Activities), Michael Stanley Gooderson, District County Assessor, Isle Of Wight Scout Active Support Member, Deep Sea Margaret Nellie Brownett, Cub Scout Scouts, Member of the Awards Board, National Sectional Assistant, 49th Croydon Addiscombe Headquarters, Group Scout Leader, 46th Methodist, Croydon, Gt. London South West Norwich, Southern Norwich, County Vice John Robert Bruce, Assistant District President, Norfolk Commissioner (Adult Training), Training Henry ‘Harry’ Thomas James Gould Adviser, Pentland, Assistant District (posthumous), formerly District Scout Commissioner (Adult Training) Inverleith, Scout Fellowship Member, Downe Scout Activity Active Support Member - Scotland, South East Centre, National Headquarters – Scotland William Edwin Gunn, District Scout Active Lionel Brunton, Group Treasurer, 4th Support Member, Downe Scout Activity Centre, Tynemouth (Congers), District Camp Warden, National Headquarters, Deputy County District, Scout Active Support Member, District Commissioner, County Executive Member, Appointments Advisory Committee Member, County Scouter, Gt. London South East Tynemouth, Training Adviser, Trainer, John Hancox, District Appointment Advisory Northumberland Committee Member, District Scout Active Roy Stamford Chisnall, Scout Sectional Support Member, Cromwell, Cambridgeshire Assistant, 18th Ipswich (Holy Wells), Orwell, Thomas Smith Harrison, Assistant District Suffolk Commissioner, West Leeds, Central Yorkshire Colin John Clarke, District Commissioner, Brian Hawtin, County Appointment Advisory Teesdale, Training Adviser, Durham Committee Member, Training Adviser, County Patricia Ann Coombes, Appointments Member, Training Adviser (Admin), County Secretary, District Secretary, Axe, Avon Treasurer, Oxfordshire Christine Mary Croton, District Scout Norman James Hiscock, Group Chairman, Active Support Member, Reading Central, Royal Pitsea (St Michaels), District President, Berkshire Basildon, Essex Raymond Harvey Dennis, UKC - Unit George Hiscocks, Group Chairman, 1st The Silver Wolf Award was introduced Leader, 22nd 2011, Royal Forest, District Appointments Chairman, by Lord Baden-Powell and remains Deputy County Commissioner, Training Adviser, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire County Executive Member, County Nights Rex John Horton, District Chairman, Icknield ’s highest Away Adviser, Lincolnshire (Luton), Bedfordshire award for service to Scouting. The Silver Wolf is the unrestricted gift of the Chief Scout and is only Michael Harper Aston – Silver Wolf awarded ‘for service of an exceptional ‘Having been a Scout from the age of six, I have experienced the Movement as a child, a teenager, a nature.’ It is not normally awarded young man and a family man. As a Leader, I have until at least a Silver Acorn has been had a number of different jobs. The rewards are gained. In practice, this means that incalculable when you see young people mature into responsible adults with a thirst for adventure and it is seldom awarded for less than the desire to help others less fortunate. Scouting is 30 years’ service, although this an incredible window on the world.’ is not always the case.

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Michael John Hughes, Deputy District Anthony John Morgan, Cub Scout Leader, Gregory Jonathan Maxwell Stewart JP, Commissioner, District Scout Active Support 32nd Swansea (Rhyddings Park), Glamorgan Assistant Director for Programme, The Scout Member, Appointments Secretary, District West, Assistant Area Commissioner (Cub Association Headquarters, Training Adviser, Administrator, Blackwater Valley, Training Scouts), Area Nights Away Adviser, Glamorgan District Appointments Advisory Committee Adviser, Hampshire West Member, Bishops Stortford And District, Deputy Denis Keith Hunt, Area Training Lynne Elizabeth Oscroft, Assistant Group County Commissioner (Programme), Administrator, Training Adviser, Scout Active Scout Leader, 1st Writtle, Assistant District Hertfordshire Support Member, Cardiff & Vale Of Glamorgan Commissioner (Adult Support), Training Roger Malcolm Swabey, Group Scout Derek Kevin Jackson, District Executive Adviser, District Administrator, Chelmsford And Active Support Member, 29th Newport, District Member, District Secretary, District District, Trainer, Local Training Administrator, Adviser, District Executive Member, District Appointments Advisory Committee Member, Essex Appointments Chairman, Newport, Gwent District Scout Active Support Member, South Reginald Thomas Poulton, Deputy District Peter Frederick Taylor, District President, East Berkshire, Assessor for Scout Shows, Royal Commissioner, Cotswold, Gloucestershire District Scout Active Support Member, South Berkshire Stephen Nicholas Pratt, District Adviser, West Cheshire, Cheshire County Scout Council District Appointments Advisory Committee Michael John Jackson, Deputy District Jennifer Anne Upton MBE, Cub Scout Member, Brighouse, West Yorkshire Commissioner, District Administrator, Leader, 3rd Itchen North (Bitterne), Itchen Alfred Reoch, Branch Chief Commissioner, North, Training Adviser, Hampshire Southampton City, Training Adviser, Hampshire Gibraltar, Overseas Branches Josephine James, Assistant District Paul Rodney Walker, County David Frank Robinson, District Adviser, Commissioner, County Armagh Commissioner, Appointments Secretary, District District Scout Active Support Member, Woking, Scout Active Support Member, Lewisham Colin Michael Ward, Group Scout Leader, County Adviser For Shooting, Surrey 1st Ockendon, District Scout Active Support District, Gt. London South Bryan Harry Rolf, County Treasurer, Scout John William Kennedy, Regional Chair Member, Trainer, Thurrock, Local Training Active Support Member, Essex Manager, Local Training Administrator, Essex – Scotland, Scout Active Support Member – Judah John Rose, District Appointment Scotland, South East Scotland, Camp Chief, Hywell Brian Weaver, Group Scout Leader, Advisory Committee Member, District 20th Swansea (Morriston), Glamorgan West, Scotland President, District Executive Member, West Brian William Henry Kimber, Group Skills Assistant County Commissioner (International), Hull, Humberside Area Appointments Advisory Committee Instructor, 51st Gloucester (Lonsdale Gordon Francis Ross, Unit Assistant, 77th Member, Glamorgan West Methodist), District Scout Active Support Glasgow, Training Adviser, Eastwood, Regional Patrick Anthony Webb,District Scout Member, Gloucester, Gloucestershire Assessor for Scotland, Clyde – Scotland Active Support Member, Wimbledon and John David Logan, County Commissioner, Ann Salt, District Commissioner, Salford, Gt. Wandle, Gt. London South West County Antrim Manchester West Antony Peter Wigley BEM, Group Scout Kenneth Alexander MacKenzie, District Dr Dereva Mary Savage, Beaver Scout Active Support Member, 43rd Oxford (St Chairman, District Vice President, District Scout Leader, 1st Comber (St Mary’s Parish), Assistant District Commissioner (Beaver Nicholas, Old Marston), District Administrator, Active Support Member, Keighley, West District Member, District Appointments Yorkshire Scouts), District Scout Active Support Member, Newtownards, County Down Chairman, Oxford Spires, Oxfordshire Ernest Manning, District Badge Secretary, Janet Helena Williams, District Chairman, District Scout Active Support Member, Dr William Sinclair Scott, Scout Leader, 7th Lanarkshire (1st Douglas), Clydesdale, Afon, Area Appointment Advisory Committee Dorchester, Dorset Member, Cardiff & Vale Of Glamorgan William Robert Marshall LCGI LicFITOL, Regional Adviser Special Needs - Scotland, Clyde - Scotland Fred Wurm, Intercamp Committee Member, County Administrator, Trainer, Scout Active DPSG, Germany Support Member, Local Training Administrator, Elizabeth Sharpe (posthumous), formerly District Camp Warden, Boston, John Neil Wyeth, International Service Team Essex Member, 22nd World Scout Jamboree 2011, Sandra Marston, District Chairman, Lincolnshire Barrie Michael Sheehan, Assistant Scout District Explorer Scout Commissioner, District Tameside South, Gt. Manchester East Leader, 26th Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Nights Away Adviser, Salisbury and South Joan Ann McGovern, Group Vice President, Lawrence ‘Lawrie’ Herbert Skinner, Wilts, Training Adviser, Wiltshire 2nd Elm Park, Hornchurch, Gt. London North District Scout Active Support Member, Training Beryl Ann Young, Deputy District East Adviser, Eastbourne and District, East Sussex Commissioner, Training Adviser, City of Graham John Meering, Deputy District Roger Albert Stanley, District Scout Portsmouth, Local Training Manager, Commissioner, Training Adviser, Southampton Leader, District Nights Away Adviser, District Hampshire City, Local Training Manager, Hampshire Skills Instructor, Richmond Upon Thames, Gt. Joseph Merefield, County Nights Away London South West Adviser, Dorset Christine Elizabeth Stevenson, Group Elizabeth Irene Metcalfe, District Scout Leader, 7th Stoke on Trent & Newcastle Commissioner, Lewes, East Sussex Wellington, Potteries North, Staffordshire John William Moore, Group Scout Leader, John Stevenson, Assistant Group Scout 26th Belfast, District Scout Active Support Leader, 7th Stoke on Trent & Newcastle Manager, South East Belfast, Belfast Wellington, Potteries North, Staffordshire

Dr William Sinclair Scott – Silver Wolf ‘The pinnacle of my Cub Scout career was receiving my Leaping Wolf badge. It’s now a huge personal honour to be awarded the Silver Wolf, but you can’t be a Leader in Scouting on your own. I’ve always been privileged to be part of a great team.’

St George’s Day 5 Bar to the Silver Acorn Leslie Adams, County Scouter, Northern Anthony Stuart Burns, District Chairman, Ireland, District Scout Active Support Member, District Scout Active Support Member, Newtownards, County Down Aberdeen, North East - Scotland Brian Eric Adshead, Assistant Scout Leader, Robert Andrew Bye, District Explorer Scout 2nd Hazel Grove (St Peters), Ladybrook Valley, Leader, Crouch Valley, County Explorer Scout Gt. Manchester East Leader, County Scout Network Leader, Trainer, Alan Thomas Afford, District Scout Active County Scouter, Scout Active Support Manager, Support Member, Mid Herts, Hertfordshire Essex Philip George Andrews, District Alan Arthur Campbell, Scout Leader, 27th Commissioner, Albany District, Gt. London Belfast (St Dorotheas), East Belfast, Belfast South Joseph Alexander Clydesdale, District Cyril Arnold, District Executive Member, Executive Member, Lisburn and District, County Louth, Lincolnshire Antrim David Ewart Astin, Scout Active Support Roger Goodhinde Colebrook, County Member, Chairman, Bispham Hall Scout Estate, Commissioner (Acting), Scout Active Support Gt. Manchester West Member, Gt. London North ‘In recognition of further Judith Kay Badham, Assistant District James Michael Coles, Group Scout Leader, specially distinguished Commissioner, Appointments Secretary, 11th Bromley St Josephs Catholic, Bromley, Gt. Torfaen, Local Training Manager, Gwent London South East service’ Sir Jeremy Bagge BT DL, County Vice Roger Collins BEM, Assistant Cub Scout President, Norfolk Leader, Group Vice President, 6th North John Charles Banks, Group Scout Leader Watford, District Appointments Chairman, 2nd Cowes (St Mary’s) Sea Scouts, West Wight, District Scout Active Support Member, District Isle of Wight Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Ronald James Barker, District Scout Active Watford North, County Supporter, Support Member, Basingstoke West, Hertfordshire Hampshire Douglas George Corbin, District Scout Mary Batten, Appointments Secretary, Active Support Member, International Scout Newmarket And District, Cambridgeshire Active Support Unit, National Headquarters, Jean Elizabeth Simone Beck, District International Service Team Member, 22nd Beaver Scout Leader, Richmond Upon Thames, World Scout Jamboree - Contingent Member, Gt. London South West, County Supporter, 22nd World Scout Jamboree 2011, District Surrey Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Alan William Bedder, Group Scout Leader, District Scout Active Support Member, 30th Norwich (Sprowston), Eastern Norwich, Middlesbrough, County Adviser International, Norfolk Camp Warden, Scout Active Support Member, Michael Bennion, UKC - Unit Leader, 22nd Cleveland World Scout Jamboree Contingent Member Leslie Cowell, District Commissioner, 2011, Assistant District Commissioner, District Training Adviser, North Manchester, Gt. Executive Member, District Camp Warden, Manchester East District Scout Active Support Member, South Drusilla Margaret Crane, District West Cheshire, Cheshire County Scout Council Administrator, Southern Norwich, County Cynthia Anne Blake MBE, District Scout Administrator, Norfolk Leader, District Scout Active Support Member, Mark James Darlow, Group Scout Leader, Watford South, Local Training Manager, 201st Islington, Camden City & Islington Hertfordshire District, Gt. London North Derek Michael John Blake, District Scout Stephen Francis Davies, Group Scout Active Support Member, District Executive Leader, 308th Manchester (St Clares RC), Member, Christchurch and District, Dorset Assistant District Commissioner (Scouts), North Ian Boden, Group Treasurer, 1st Wolverton, Manchester, Gt. Manchester East Milton Keynes Great Ouse, Buckinghamshire Linda Christine Davis, Assistant Cub Scout Bruce Henry Bowbanks, Scout Active Leader, 7th Banbury, District Nights Away Support Member, Glamorgan West Adviser, Banbury, Oxfordshire Kenneth Braithwaite, District Elaine Anne Day, Beaver Scout Leader, 6th Commissioner, Crosby, Merseyside Ripon Cathedral, District Nights Away Adviser, Christine June Brett (posthumous), District Scout Active Support Member, Training District Secretary, Wokingham, Royal Berkshire Adviser, Ripon And District, North Yorkshire

Leslie Cowell – Bar to the Silver Acorn ‘Scouting is a lifestyle rather than a club. I want to make a difference and give others the opportunities that I have had in Scouting. I continue to keep the The Bar to the Silver Acorn can only Promise I made as a Cub Scout to do my best. I like be awarded after a Silver Acorn working with people and passing on the skills I have. We have to encourage more parents to get has been gained and a further five involved on a regular basis to experience the fun years of similarly distinguished service we have every week.’ has been completed.

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Graham William Don, District Scout Leader, Gerald George Higgins, Camp Warden, Adviser (Admin), Training Adviser, Oxfordshire, District Scout Active Support Member, Training Woodlands, District Scout Active Support Chief Commissioner (England), Headquarters Adviser, District Nights Away Adviser, District Member, District Appointments Advisory John Collis Le Riche, Beaver Scout Leader, Appointments Chairman, District Appointment Committee Member, Slough, Royal Berkshire 3rd Winchester, District Appointment Advisory Advisory Committee Member, Northern Derek Holt, Group President, 34th Lancaster Committee Member, District Scout Active Norwich, County Adviser For Shooting, Norfolk (St Chad’s), District Executive Member, Support Member, Winchester, Hampshire Anthony John Edwards, District Lonsdale, West Lancashire Barbara Leader, Group Scout Leader, 1st Appointments Chairman, District Scout Active Christine Jean Chota Holton, Cub Scout Grange and Cartmel, Kentdale, Cumbria Support Treasurer, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Sectional Assistant, Group Secretary, 8th Rita Frances Lewis, County Secretary, County Executive Member, Kent Cheam, Sutton, Gt. London South West County Training Administrator, Bedfordshire Linda Mary Edwards, Assistant District Paul Roger Howard, District Commissioner, David Edward Lilley, Group Scout Leader, Commissioner (Cub Scouts), Glendon, District Scout Active Support Member, East 2nd St Ives, Cromwell, Cambridgeshire Northamptonshire Surrey, Surrey Charles Lowe, Scout Leader, 21st Aberdeen Dr Christopher Scott Ely, Scout Leader, Peter George Hudson, District Adviser, (Cults), Aberdeen, North East – Scotland 220th Birmingham (St Agnes), Cole Valley Gloucester, Gloucestershire Michael Arthur Marett, County Adviser South, County Safety Co-ordinator, Josephine Rose Hughes, District Nights For Bands, Scout Active Support Member, Birmingham Away Adviser, District Appointment Advisory Jersey Committee Member, Wolverhampton East, Maureen Etchells, District Secretary, Christopher Francis Maxted, District Tameside South, Gt. Manchester East County Appointment Advisory Committee Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Irene Elizabeth Fisher, Assistant County Member, Training Adviser, County Executive District Chairman, Sale and District, Gt. Commissioner (Beaver Scouts), Trainer, Essex Member, West Mercia Manchester West John Anthony Hickman Ford, District Lesley Jarvis, District Appointments Chairman, Ross and Sutherland, Highlands and Chairman, District Scout Active Support Dr Rayner Michael Mayer, Assistant Islands - Scotland Manager, South Derbyshire, Derbyshire District Commissioner (International), Christopher Donald Geary, Group William Thomas Kweku Obafemi Bramshill, County Adviser International, Contact, 4th Chadwell Heath, District Hughes, Group Scout Leader, 1st Marks Gate Hampshire Commissioner, Ilford East, Gt. London North (St Mark), Trainer, Training Adviser, Ilford East, Jannette Mary Balgarnie McElarney, East Assistant County Commissioner (Scouts), Gt. Cub Scout Leader, 29th Odiham (Pondtail), Janet Dorothy George B.Ed (Hons), London North East Assistant District Commissioner, Odiham, formerly District Commissioner, Training Dorothy Humphreys, District Badge Training Adviser, Hampshire Adviser, District Appointment Advisory Secretary, District Scout Active Support John Philip McGrattan, District Committee Member, District Scout Active Member, Newport, Gwent Commissioner, North Belfast, Belfast Support Member, Wrexham And District, Clwyd Betty Myrtle Ingrem, District Scout Active Colin Havelock Meikoleit, Group James Scott Goldie, formerly Regional Support Member, New Forest West, Hampshire Executive Member, 26th Middlesbrough Scout Fellowship Member - Scotland, South Douglas Robert Inkley, Group Chairman, (Settlement), District Vice President, East - Scotland 14th Vale of Aylesbury, Vale of Aylesbury, Middlesbrough, Cleveland Brenda Graham, Assistant District Buckinghamshire Osborne Charles Millar, District President, Commissioner, Appointments Secretary, North Maurice James Johnston, Group Scout Crompton and Royton, County Treasurer, Gt. Manchester, Gt. Manchester East Leader, 37th Belfast, Deputy District Manchester North Marion Jennifer Graham, Beaver Scout Commissioner, South East Belfast, Assistant Janice Anne Minns, Project Manager, Leader, 32nd Bromley (St Mary’s Hayes), County Commissioner (Activities), Belfast Southern Norwich, Appointments Secretary, Bromley, Gt. London South East Christopher Jones, Group Chairman, 27th Training Adviser, North West Norfolk, Norfolk Pamela Marjorie Grogan, District Bromley (Wilberforce), District Adviser, District Roger Michael Morcom, County Secretary, District Scout Active Support Nights Away Adviser, District Administrator, Chairman, Birmingham Member, Croydon, County Executive Member, Training Adviser, Bromley, Gt. London South Moira Morris, District Badge Secretary, Gt. London South West East District Supporter, Potters Bar and District, Jill Anne Hamilton, County Treasurer, Sally Barbara Kearns, District Vice Hertfordshire Lincolnshire President, District Appointments Chairman, Terence Michael Murray, District Brian Leonard Hamshere, Assistant Cub District Scout Active Support Member, Training Secretary, District Scout Active Support Scout Leader, 4th Potters Bar, Potters Bar and Adviser, North East Norfolk, Norfolk Co-ordinator, Darlington And District, Durham District, Hertfordshire Michael Frederick Kerrigan, Chair Adult Mildred Jean Nelson, Group Treasurer, 3rd Maureen Harrison, Group Secretary, 4th Training Support Team, National Headquarters, Carshalton (Methodist), District Executive Pudsey (Church Lane Methodist), West Leeds, District Scout Active Support Member, District Member, Sutton, District Scout Active Support Central Yorkshire Administrator, New Forest West, Local Training Member, Wimbledon and Wandle, Gt. London John Peter Hewling, District Scout Active Manager, Hampshire South West Support Member, District Appointments Timothy Kidd, District Appointments Terrance Newland, Assistant Scout Leader, Advisory Committee Member, Middlesbrough, Advisory Committee Member, Abingdon, 11th Gloucester (Hucclecote), Gloucester, Camp Warden, Cleveland Deputy County Training Manager, Training Gloucestershire David Norman Oliver, Appointments Secretary, Cole Valley South, Birmingham Elaine Anne Day – Bar to the Silver Acorn William Frederick Osborne, Group ‘Being able to encourage young people and adults Contact, 1st Grays, Thurrock, Assistant County to learn and try new things is what keeps me in Training Manager, Trainer, County Adviser for Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Scout Active Scouting. The smile on a Beaver’s face when they Support Member, Essex achieve what they thought was impossible! If Barrie Clayton Parsons, District Badge someone was thinking of volunteering but not sure Secretary, District Secretary, District Explorer they could devote the time I would say give it a go. Scout Administrator, Swindon Ridgeway, Scouting is very rewarding and has lots to offer County Supporter, Wiltshire whatever time you have available. Scouting is friendly and fun.’ Peter Eric Pearce, District Badge Secretary, Banstead, Surrey

St George’s Day 7 Jennifer Anne Pearson, Assistant Cub Peter Stanley Sharples, District Scout Alexander William Waddington, District Scout Leader, 15th Huddersfield St Hilda’s Active Support Member, Bedford, Assessor for Scout Active Support Member, Lilford, County Church Cowcliffe, Huddersfield North, Local Narrow Boating, County Adviser for Water Safety Co-ordinator, Gt. Manchester West Training Manager, West Yorkshire Activities, Bedfordshire Maureen Ward, Group Scout Leader, 1st Gerald William Peel, Group Scout Leader, Christopher Mark Shaw, National Cuffley, Potters Bar And District, Hertfordshire 177th Birmingham (Station Road Methodist) Headquarters Volunteer, National Jacqueline Whiteley MBE, District Badge Depurty District Commissioner, District Headquarters, Assistant Explorer Scout Leader, Secretary, Holme Valley, West Yorkshire Executive Member, Tame Valley Birmingham Salisbury and South Wilts, County Adviser For Derek Wiles, District Chairman, District John Penfold, District Skills Instructor, Air Activities, Wiltshire Secretary, District Scout Active Support Dockland Scout Project, Gt. London North, Christopher Charles Sheppard, formerly Member, Alderley, Cheshire County Scout Assistant Scout Leader, 7th Bramshill (Hook), Group Scout Leader, 1st Bookham, Council Group Scout Leader, 54th Portsmouth (Great Leatherhead, Surrey Christopher John Wootton, Group Salterns), City of Portsmouth, Assessor for John Smallwood, County Commissioner, Sectional Assistant, 1st Winnersh, Wokingham, Kayaking, County Boat Inspector, County Central Yorkshire Royal Berkshire Water Activities Adviser, County Assessor for Robert Paull Stanislaws Stam JP M.Eng Eric Maxwell Wrenn, District Rafting (Traditional), Hampshire C Eng M I Mech. E, Group Scout Leader, Commissioner, Lincoln, Lincolnshire John Penney, Group Chairman, 25th 12th Bootle (Scottish), Altside, Merseyside Bromley (St Andrew’s), District Executive Peter Edward Paul Staples MBE, County Member, District Appointments Chairman, Executive Member, County Vice President, Bromley, County Appointment Advisory Scout Active Support Member, Norfolk Committee Member, Gt. London South East Thomas Stoddart, District Commissioner Graham Peter Phillips, District Chairman, (Acting), Derwent and Dove, County Warrington West, County Commissioner, Commissioner, Derbyshire Cheshire County Scout Council David Ernest Stow, Group Scout Leader, 1st Helen Plumb, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Rural, Roughton Mill Scout Group, District Caton Church, Lonsdale, West Lancashire Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Margaret Jean Postlethwaite, District North East Norfolk, Norfolk Cub Scout Leader, District Nights Away Adviser, Jennifer Hilary Stroud, Training Adviser, Cabot, Avon Deputy County Commissioner, Dorset Hugh Carslaw Purdie MIFP MILT, District Melvin John Stroud, County Training Commissioner, South East, Clyde – Scotland Manager, Dorset Kay Elizabeth Colvill Putman, Cub Scout Denyse Judith Sylvester, Deputy District Leader, Winterslow, Salisbury and South Wilts, Commissioner, Lincoln, County Executive Training Adviser, Wiltshire Member, Lincolnshire George Stephen Ramsay, District Scout Nigel Robin Taylor, Deputy County Active Support Member, Durham City and Commissioner, Training Adviser, Bedfordshire District, Assistant County Commissioner John Robert Teasdale, County Chairman, (Activities), County Adviser For Mountain West Yorkshire Activities, Manager of the Activity Permit Graham Henry Tilford, District Badge Scheme, County Adviser For Duke of Secretary, District Supporter, Reigate, Surrey Edinburgh’s Award, County Administrator, Geoffrey John Tranter, Explorer Scout Durham Leader, Leatherhead, Surrey David Relton, UKC - Assistant Unit Leader, Brian Henry Tucker, District Adviser, West 22nd World Scout Jamboree 2011, County Wirral, Assistant County Commissioner (Adult Executive Member, Deputy County Support), County Training Manager, Commissioner, Training Adviser, Manager of Merseyside the Activity Permit Scheme, Lincolnshire Janet Ann Turnbull, District Scout Active Dorothy Jean Revill, District Scout Active Support Member, Network Russia, National Support Member, Lincoln, Lincolnshire Headquarters, District Scout Active Support Annette Rice, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Co-ordinator, Mid Herts, Hertfordshire 5th Neath (Bryncoch), Glamorgan West Alan Venn, Assistant District Commissioner Roger Richardson, Group Supporter, 4th (Scouts), District Appointment Advisory Bromley (Holy Trinity), Bromley, Gt. London Committee Member, Chorley, West Lancashire South East William George Veysey, District Gordon Richard Roberts, District Appointments Chairman, District Scout Active Executive Member, St Helens and District, Support Member, Watford South, Hertfordshire Merseyside Edward Francis Rose, Group Chairman, 3rd Havering, District Scout Active Support Member, Romford, County Adviser, Gt. London Janice Anne Minns – Bar to the Silver Acorn North East ‘Scouting has become part of my life. It has given Douglas Charles Ruse, District Scout me the opportunity to meet many people and take Active Support Member, Truro, Cornwall part in some wonderful events. Young people in Christopher William Scott, District Scout Scouting work together and can try different Active Support Manager, Waterlooville, Local activities they would not otherwise have had the Training Manager, County Leader Beaver Scouts, Hampshire opportunity to do. There is nothing more satisfying Rowland Wingate Shallcross, District than seeing a young person smile when they Chairman, Caithness, Highlands and Islands achieve something they think is impossible for them.’ – Scotland

8 23 April 2011 Silver Acorn Mathilda Johanna Bailey, Cub Scout Leader, Graham Thomas Brooks, Group Scout Leader, 1st Llanmartin, District Appointment Advisory Baughurst, Silchester, Training Adviser, Hampshire Committee Member, Training Adviser, Newport, Andrea Patricia Brown, Group Scout Leader, Gwent 51st Belfast (Orangefield), Assistant District Stewart James Bannister, District Scout Commissioner (Cub Scouts), South East Belfast, Belfast Leader, Sleaford, Lincolnshire Diane Brown, Training Adviser, Appointments Christopher Bardell, District Camp Warden, Secretary, Basildon, Safeguarding Awareness Milton Keynes Enigma, Buckinghamshire Co-ordinator, Trainer, Essex Doris Lilian Barden, Group Secretary, 1st Gary Stephen Brown, Training Adviser, Clanfield, Waterlooville, Hampshire District Skills Instructor, District Commissioner, David Jonathan Barker, District Scout Active Basildon, Deputy County Commissioner, Essex Support Member, District Scout Leader, District Anthony Roy Burnham, Scout Leader, 12th Supporter, St Albans, Hertfordshire High Wycombe (Union Baptist), High Wycombe, Michael David Barker, Beaver Scout Leader, Buckinghamshire 8th Grantham (Harroway), Grantham, Lincolnshire Lorraine Anne Burns, Group Chairman, 1st Bernard Francis Barry, Cub Scout Leader, Burntwood, Appointments Secretary, Lichfield, 12th Bebbington (St Mary’s), Bebington, Staffordshire ‘In recognition of Merseyside Colin Victor Burrough, Scout Leader, 3rd George Edward Basnett, Group President, Billericay, Billericay & Wickford, Essex specially distinguished Wilson House South West Cheshire, formerly Stewart Charles Buswell, Assistant Group District Chairman, South West Cheshire, Cheshire Scout Leader, 10th Romsey (Woodley & service’ County Scout Council Crampmoor), Romsey, Hampshire Neil Bateman, District Executive Member, Henry Stewart Butler, District Scout Active District Scout Active Support Member, Wolsey, Support Member, District Appointment Advisory Suffolk Committee Member, District Executive Member, Richard John Batley, Group Scout Leader, Itchen North, Training Adviser, Hampshire 280th Sheffield (St James Norton), Sheffield Rosemary Gladys Butler, Appointments Sheaf, South Yorkshire Secretary, District Executive Member, Itchen Arnold Robert Baxter (posthumous), North, Training Adviser, Hampshire formerly District Treasurer, Albany District, Gt. Rosemary Candish, District Scout Active London South Support Member, Stamford and Bourne, The Silver Acorn was first introduced Geoffrey William Bedenham, District Lincolnshire Appointment Advisory Committee Member, as a St George’s Day Award in 1933. Jocelyn Elizabeth Canning, County Training District Scout Active Support Manager, Grantham, Manager, County Armagh It is not normally awarded until after Lincolnshire Margaret Anne Cantelo, Assistant Cub Scout Stephen Peter Bell, Assistant Scout Leader, at least the Award for Merit has been Leader, 10th Romsey (Woodley & Crampmoor), 1st Carlton Colville Air Scout Group, Lowestoft, Romsey, Hampshire gained and a further five years’ Suffolk Doreen Carnell, Group Scout Leader, 2nd Jacqueline Grace Betteridge, District Cub service has been completed. Warrington (St James), District Nights Away Scout Leader, District Scout Active Support Adviser, District Appointment Advisory Committee It is therefore seldom awarded Member, Romsey, Training Adviser, Hampshire Member, Warrington West, Cheshire County Scout Kathleen Olive Bettinson, District Scout Council for less than 20 years’ service. Active Support Member, Sudbury, Suffolk Maralyn Anne Carruthers, Group Secretary, Ian William Ronald Biggin, Assistant Beaver 78th Lanarkshire 3rd Blantyre, Strathcalder, Clyde Scout Leader, 30th Ormskirk (Latham Park), - Scotland Ormskirk And District, West Lancashire Sandra Elizabeth Carson, Beaver Scout Gerald Anthony Bishop, Assistant County Adrian Arthur Aldsworth, Assistant Cub Leader, 2nd Thurso, Caithness, Highlands and Commissioner (Activities), Cleveland Scout Leader, 1st Glen Lusset Old Kirkpatrick, Islands - Scotland Kenneth Blake, Appointments Secretary, Dunbartonshire, West – Scotland District Scout Active Support Member, Lincoln, Paul MacDonald Carter, Assistant Scout Jane Allen, District Scout Active Support Lincolnshire Leader, 148th Bristol (1st Stockwood), Bristol Member, Stowmarket, Suffolk Leslie Bland, Assistant Group Scout Leader, South, Avon Dawn Melrose Anderson LLB (Hons); Dip 27th Middlesbrough (Baptist), Middlesbrough, May Castrey, Group Contact, 2nd Shotton (St LP; NP, Scout Leader, 14th Forth Valley (1st Cleveland Ethelwood), Appointments Secretary, District Falkirk), Training Adviser, Falkirk, Forth – Scotland Kevin David Blowers, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Secretary (Acting), District Appointments Advisory Vicki Jean Andrews, Group Scout Leader, 12th Carlton Colville Air Scouts, Lowestoft, Suffolk Committee Member, Flintshire, Area Camberwell (Bradfield), Assistant District June Elizabeth Bonas, Group Chairman 6th Appointments Secretary, Clwyd Commissioner (Scouts), District Nights Away Redcar, Redcar and Eston, Cleveland Howard Chandler, Assistant Scout Leader, 4th Adviser, District Executive Member, District Scout Terence Gerald Bond MBE, District Chairman, Romsey (Bramshaw), Romsey, Hampshire Active Support Member, Albany District, Gt. Lonsdale, County Executive Member, West Patricia Margaret Chandler, District Scout London South Lancashire Active Support Member, Northampton, Nigel Apps, Scout Leader, 2nd Great Parndon Roxanna Marion Bostock, Scout Leader, 1st Northamptonshire (Harlow), District Executive Member, Camp Charlton Air and Sea Scout Group, District Scout James Ronald Charlton, District Treasurer, Warden, Harlow and District, Essex Active Support Member, Training Adviser, Knutsford and District, Cheshire County Scout Christine Elizabeth Arkle, Assistant Beaver Spelthorne, County Explorer Scout Leader, Surrey Council Scout Leader, 1st Middleton on Sea, Bognor Regis Charles John Bow LLB, District Secretary, Andrew Michael Chatwin, Assistant Scout and District, Local Training Manager, County Clydesdale, Regional Vice Chairman - Scotland, Leader, 1st New Forest North (Lyndhurst), Explorer Administrator, West Sussex Clyde - Scotland Scout Leader, New Forest North, Training Adviser, David Neil Ashton, Assistant Cub Scout Robert Clive Boys,Scout Leader, 5th Woodley, Trainer, Hampshire Leader, 1st Hook, Royal Kingston, Gt. London District Scout Leader, Loddon, Royal Berkshire Ronald David Cheape, Group Chairman, 9th South West Reverend David Keith Bradburn, District Forth Valley (Dunipace Old), Falkirk, Forth - Stanley Atkins, District Treasurer, Salford, Gt. Chaplain, East Herts, Hertfordshire Scotland Manchester West David John Brain, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Peter John Chetwynd, District Commissioner, Richard James Atterby, Group Scout Leader, Fetcham, District Cub Scout Leader, Leatherhead, Training Adviser, Southern Norfolk, Norfolk 1st Boston Sea Scout Group, Boston, Lincolnshire Surrey Christine Sandra Chick, District Secretary, Andrew Leslie Heywood Bailey, Cub Scout Linda Jean Brett, Scout Leader, Group Contact, Appointments Secretary, Training Adviser, Leader, 2nd Carlton Colville, Lowestoft, Training 2nd Much Hadham (St Elizabeths), Bishops South East, County Executive Member, Adviser, Suffolk Stortford And District, Hertfordshire Leicestershire

St George’s Day 9 Shirley Christmas, Appointments Secretary, Deputy District Commissioner, Great North, Deborah Ann Dilley, Assistant Scout Leader, Silchester, Hampshire County Appointments Chairman, Northumberland 2nd Baldock, Letchworth and Baldock, David Robert Church MBE, Group Chairman, Charles Cox, Group Supporter, 8th Hornchurch Hertfordshire 44th Norwich (1st Old Catton), District Executive (St. Andrew’s), Hornchurch, Gt. London North Richard Guy Dix, Cub Scout Leader, 3rd Boston Member, Northern Norwich, Norfolk East (Fishtoft), Boston, Lincolnshire James Clark, Group Scout Leader, 30th Reigate, Jackie Cox, District Appointments Chairman, Leslie James Dobbs, Group Treasurer, 1st Reigate, Surrey District Executive Member, West Leeds, Central Biggin Hill, District Chairman, District Scout Active Judith Anne Clark, Cub Scout Leader, 30th Yorkshire Support Member, Orpington, Deputy County Reigate, District Cub Scout Leader, Reigate, Surrey Michael Edward Cox, Cub Scout Leader, Chairman, Gt. London South East Monica Loraine Clarke, Appointments Clapham (Bedford), Training Adviser, Bedford, Brian Gordon Dooley, Group Scout Leader 3rd Secretary, Blythe, Appointments Secretary, Cole, Bedfordshire Hazel Grove, Ladybrook Valley, Gt. Manchester County Administrator, Solihull Andrew James Crapper, Assistant Cub Scout East Pamela Mary Clarke, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 164th Sheffield (Stannington), Sheffield Loraine Dukes, Assistant Beaver Scout Leader, Leader, 3rd Cheam, Sutton, Gt. London South Hallam, South Yorkshire 1st Tadworth (Invincible) Sea Scout Group, West Stephen Jeffrey Crawford, District Scout Banstead, Surrey Philip Leigh Clarke, Group Scout Leader, 18th Active Support Member, 1st Deep Sea Scouts, Richard William Eades, Scout Leader, 26th Swindon, District Scout Leader, Swindon Deep Sea Scouts, National Headquarters, Ipswich (St Margaret’s), Wolsey, Suffolk Ridgeway, Training Adviser, Wiltshire Assistant Scout Leader, 11th Ilford North, Ilford Alan Clive Edwards, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Gillian Mildred Clawson, Beaver Scout Northwest, Gt. London North East Fritwell, Bicester, Oxfordshire Leader, 1st Tadworth (Invincible) Sea Scout Group, June May Cribley, District Badge Secretary, Carolyn Barbara Ellery, Beaver Scout Leader, District Beaver Scout Leader, Banstead, Surrey District Scout Active Support Member, Vale of Group Contact, 34th Camberwell, District Norma Cleveland, Group Adviser, 22nd South Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Appointments Chairman, Albany District, Gt. Shields (Brownsea), South Tyneside, Durham Penelope Jayne Crow, Cub Scout Leader, London South Thomas Cleveland, Group President, 22nd Group Scout Leader, 38th Northampton Philip Edward Elliott, District Scout Active South Shields (Brownsea), South Tyneside, (Moulton), District Nights Away Adviser, Training Support Member, UK Kandersteg Network - Scout Durham Adviser, District Scout Active Support Member, Active Support Unit, National Headquarters, Carol Ann Clipsham, District Badge Secretary, Northampton, Northamptonshire Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 1st Severn Beach, Grimsby and Cleethorpes, Humberside David Mark Cubitt, Deputy County Cotswold Edge, Avon Paul John Cobb, Group Scout Leader, 1st Commissioner, Manager of the Activity Permit David Michael Ellis, District Commissioner, Lechlade, Cotswold, Gloucestershire Scheme, Norfolk East Scarsdale, Derbyshire Alan Bernard Cobbold, Local Training Marion Cuthbert, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Anthony Elmer, Group Chairman, 3rd Boston Manager, Hampshire Group Contact, 7th Redcar (Presbyterian), Redcar (Fishtoft), District President, Boston, Lincolnshire Nicholas David Cohen, Scout Leader, Group and Eston, Cleveland Cathleen Elphee, District Scout Active Support Contact, 1st Pudsey (Parish Church), District Richard Gunn LLB CA, Cuthbert Regional Member, Holbeach & Spalding, Lincolnshire Nights Away Adviser, West Leeds, Central Treasurer - Scotland, Clyde – Scotland Charles Gunars Ende, Group Scout Leader, Yorkshire Norma Daft, Group Scout Leader, 6th Boston, 9th Deal and District (1st Ash), Deal Walmer and Joyce Mary Colbourne, District Badge Boston, Lincolnshire Sandwich, Kent Secretary, Christchurch and District, Dorset Ruby May Dale, District Executive Member, David Anwyl Evans, National Headquarters Ian Frederick Cole, Group Scout Leader, 14th District Scout Active Support Member, Watford Volunteer, National Headquarters, Deputy District Eastleigh, Eastleigh and District, Training Adviser, South, Hertfordshire Commissioner, District Nights Away Adviser, Hampshire Daniel Ernest John Daly, Group Scout Leader, Sutton Coldfield East, Local Training Manager, Meriel Phyllis Cole, District Chairman, Cardiff 1st Bagshot, District Appointment Advisory Birmingham East & South, Area Executive Member, Area Committee Member, Surrey Heath, Surrey Martin David Evans, Explorer Scout Leader, Appointments Advisory Committee Member, Kenneth John Daniels, Group Scout Leader, Barry, Assistant Area Commissioner (Scouts), Cardiff & Vale Of Glamorgan 1st Bovey Tracey, Teignbridge, Devon Cardiff & Vale Of Glamorgan Ian Robert Collett, Assistant Scout Leader, Lynda Davidson, Beaver Scout Leader, 2nd Clifford Stanley Everitt, District Bray and Holyport, Maidenhead, Royal Berkshire Donaghadee Scout Group, Newtownards, County Commissioner, Ilford Northwest, Gt. London North Ralf Edward Cook, Group Scout Leader, 17th Down East Chelmsford Salvation Army, Training Adviser, Norman Fraser Davie, Group Scout Leader, Patrick Charles Farr, County Training Chelmsford And District, Essex 66th Aberdeen (Greyfriars Church), Aberdeen, Manager, Oxfordshire Phyllis Anne Cooke, Beaver Scout Leader, North East – Scotland Julie Ann Farrington, Scout Leader, 50th 108th Belfast (St Brigids), Assistant District Barbara Anne Davies, Assistant Cub Scout Cambridge (Milton), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Commissioner, North Belfast, Belfast Leader, 15th Stoke on Trent & Newcastle (St Giles Tracey Jane Farrington, Assistant Scout Anthony Robert Cooper, Group Scout Leader, & St Georges), District Cub Scout Leader, Training Leader, 50th Cambridge (Milton), Cambridge, 1st Awsworth (St Peters), Beauvale, Adviser, Newcastle, Training Adviser, Staffordshire Cambridgeshire Nottinghamshire David William Owen Davies, District Scout Keith Charles Farris, Scout Leader, Group John Barry Cooper, Scout Leader, Group Leader, Ladybrook Valley, Gt. Manchester East Contact, 1st West Ewell, Epsom and Ewell, Surrey Contact, 43rd Rossendale (St Thomas’), Keith Dawes, Group Secretary 169th Bristol Shirley Elizabeth Fell, District Appointments Rossendale Valley, Assistant County Commissioner (Brentry), Group Vice President 7th Bristol Christ Advisory Committee Chairman, Ripon and District, (Scouts), East Lancashire Church Clifton, District Vice President Cabot, Avon County Executive Member, North Yorkshire Robert James Cooper, Assistant County Sheila Ann Dawson, District Scout Active John Fenlon (posthumous), formerly District Commissioner (6-14), Hertfordshire Support Member, District Treasurer, Scout Active Support Manager, District Brian Douglas Cornaby, District Badge Middlesbrough, Cleveland Appointment Advisory Committee Member, West Secretary, Ross and Sutherland, Highlands and Tony William Dennis, Scout Leader, 1st Rural, Leeds, Camp Warden, Central Yorkshire Islands - Scotland Roughton Mill Scout Group, North East Norfolk, Brian Keith Field, Group Supporter, 1st Bishops Michael Haughton Corrighan, District Scout Norfolk Stortford and Hockerill, Bishops Stortford and Active Support Manager, formerly District Alexander Diamant, Group Chairman, 2nd District, Hertfordshire Chairman, Medehamstede, Cambridgeshire Clackmannan (1st Tullibody), District Treasurer, Peter Lawrence Final, Assistant District Margaret Ann Corthine, Assistant Cub Scout Clackmannanshire, Forth – Scotland Commissioner (Cub Scouts), Training Adviser, Leader, 9th Roxeth (St. Andrew’s), District Scout Dr Charles Mark Dick, Assistant Scout Leader, District Scout Active Support Member, East Active Support Member, Harrow & Wealdstone, 3rd Ballymena (West Church), Assistant District London, Gt. London North East Gt. London Middlesex West Commissioner (Activities), Training Adviser, Mid Joyce Eva Fisher, District Scout Active Support Jeremy David Cotton, DC (Acting), Antrim, Assistant County Commissioner Member, Basildon, Essex Moorlands, County Commissioner, Staffordshire (Activities), Manager of the Activity Permit Mary Fisher, District Treasurer, Mid Cornwall, Geoffrey William Coulson, District Scout Scheme, County Antrim Cornwall Leader, Deputy District Commissioner, Newcastle Jack Digby Digweed, Group Scout Leader, 1st Michael Raymond Fitchett, District Scout East, District Scout Active Support Member, Dyce, Aberdeen, North East – Scotland Active Support Member, Derby North, Derbyshire

10 23 April 2011 St George’s Day Awards

Peter Wallace Foot, District Scout Active Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Michaela Heath, District Commissioner, Axe, Support Member, Deep Sea Scouts, National Lewisham District, Gt. London South Avon Headquarters, District Appointment Advisory John Alexander Gordon, District President, Iteni Helu, Branch Chief Commissioner, Tonga, Committee Member, Grimsby and Cleethorpes, District Scout Active Support Member, Inverness, Overseas Branches Humberside Highlands and Islands – Scotland Heather Michelle Henderson, Group Scout Barry David Eric Ford, Group Scout Leader, Hazel Graham, Appointments Secretary, Leader, 19th Tynemouth (9th Tyne), Tynemouth, 3rd Woodley (St John Bosco), Loddon, Royal Burnley, East Lancashire Northumberland Berkshire Neville Graham, Assistant District Dennis Heritage, Scout Leader, 24th South Arthur Walter Fordham, District Commissioner, Assistant District Commissioner West Leeds (Farnley), District Executive Member, Appointment Advisory Committee Member, (Cub Scouts), District Cub Scout Leader, Burnley, West Leeds, Central Yorkshire District Scout Active Support Member, Newham, East Lancashire Nicola Jane Hewlett, Group Scout Leader, 2nd Gt. London North East Kenneth Watson Gray, Group Scout Active Cirencester (Stratton), Cotswold, Gloucestershire Geoffrey Alan Foster, District Scout Active Support Member, 77th Glasgow, Eastwood, Clyde Patricia Monica Higgins, District Support Member, District Treasurer, Mid Herts, - Scotland Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Hertfordshire Lawrence Gray, District Scout Active Support District Adviser, District Scout Active Support Norah Jean Foster, Assistant Cub Scout Member, York Ebor, County Adviser For Bands, Member, Slough, Royal Berkshire Leader, 1st Barnard Castle, Teesdale, Durham North Yorkshire Gordon Clifford Hilbert, Group Scout Leader, Peter Foster, Group Treasurer, 14th Ilford Jennifer Anne Greener, Deputy District 8th Formby, Formby, Merseyside (Methodist Church), Ilford Northwest, Gt. London Commissioner, Kidderminster, Training Adviser, Heather Elizabeth Hilditch, Appointments North East Hereford & Worcester Secretary, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire Ronald Foster (posthumous), formerly Jeffrey Edward Gregory, Assistant Group Gerald David Hill, Group Vice President, Group District Scout Fellowship Member, Middlesbrough, Scout Leader, 1st Wallington, Sutton, Gt. London Supporter, 1st Sunningdale, District President, Cleveland South West South East Berkshire, Royal Berkshire Sheila Foxon, District Scout Active Support Geoffrey Gregson, Group Chairman, 6th Robin Hill, Director Of Finance, Dorset Member, Rugby, Warwickshire Bridlington, District Scout Active Support Member, Michael Norman Hobson, District Kay Lesley Francis, Cub Scout Leader, 30th Bridlington, Humberside Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Southwark (St Mary’s Own), District Executive Patricia Rose Griffin, District Commissioner, District Scout Active Support Manager, Wolsey, Member, District Scout Active Support Member, Lonsdale, West Lancashire Suffolk Albany District, Gt. London South Joyce Eileen Griffiths, Appointments Ann Lilian Hodgin, Group Contact, 1st Uphill, Nicholas Andrew Francis, Group Scout Secretary, District Supporter, West Leeds, Central Axe, Avon Leader, 18th Lincoln (Silver Street and Bailgate), Yorkshire Robert Hodgson, District Scout Active Support Lincoln, Lincolnshire Michael John Gyles, District Executive Member, Middlesbrough, Deputy County Richard Kendrick Frank, Scout Leader, 43rd Member, Loughborough, Leicestershire Commissioner, County Appointment Advisory North Leeds Phoenix St Mary’s, District Scout Christopher Eric James Hall, District Scout Committee Member, Scout Active Support Leader, North Leeds, County Nights Away Adviser, Active Support Member, Downe Scout Activity Member, Cleveland Central Yorkshire Centre, National Headquarters, Group Scout William James Holland, Assistant Group Leader, 5th Welling, Training Adviser, District Colin Michael Fraser, Assistant Explorer Scout Scout Leader, 16th Lancaster (St Paul’s), District Scout Active Support Member, East Wickham and Leader, District Scout Active Support Member, Executive Member, Lonsdale, West Lancashire Welling, Gt. London South East Arundel and Littlehampton, West Sussex Malcolm Hollings, Scout Leader, 3rd Christopher Kenneth Hall, Assistant Cub Mary Patricia Frewin, Group Scout Leader, Wokingham, Wokingham, Royal Berkshire Scout Leader, 5th Tynemouth (Methodist 1st Redcar, District Executive Member, District Ronald Eric Hollingsworth, District Scout Memorial), Tynemouth, Northumberland Nights Away Adviser, District Adviser For Archery, Active Support Member, Central Notts, Elizabeth Anne Hall, County Appointment Redcar and Eston, Cleveland Nottinghamshire Advisory Committee Member, County Supporter, Ian David Garbett, Cub Scout Leader, Group County Executive Member, Local Training John Alan Holmes, Scout Leader, Eskmouth Contact, Sewerby Methodist (Bridlington), Manager, North Yorkshire (Whitby), Whitby and District, County Assessor, Bridlington, Humberside His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, County County Skills Instructor, County Adviser for Water Beryl Gartside, District Appointment Advisory President, County Tyrone Activities, North Yorkshire Committee Member, District Administrator, Ray Hammett, Group Scout Active Support Kay Louise Holmes, District Commissioner, District Scout Active Support Member, Wyre, West Member, 4th Worcester Park (Cheam Common), Cardiff East & South, Cardiff & Vale Of Glamorgan Lancashire Sutton, Gt. London South West Karen Lesley Holmes, Cub Scout Leader, 20th Lady Elizabeth Periam Gass JP, County John Gavin Hannah, District Commissioner, Batley (St. Thomas), Heavy Woollen, West President, Somerset East Cleveland, Cleveland Yorkshire Derek George Gatland, Group Sectional Denys Harman, Group Skills Instructor, 148th Stephen Andrew Holmes, Deputy District Assistant, 28th Croydon Our Lady of the Birmingham (St Dunstans), District Scout Active Commissioner, Cardiff East & South, Cardiff & Annunciation, Croydon, Gt. London South West Support Member, Cole Valley South, Birmingham Vale Of Glamorgan Sabina Mary Gerrard, District Appointment Angela Jennifer Hart, Beaver Scout Leader, David Andrew Hookey, Scout Leader, 3rd Advisory Committee Member, Epsom and Ewell, 1st Combs, Stowmarket, Suffolk Ventnor, District Executive Member, East Wight, Surrey Peter Anthony Hart, County Skills Instructor, Isle Of Wight Lynn Margaret Gill, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Hampshire, Scout Leader, 1st Bishopston, Cabot, Colin Andrew Hopkins, District Treasurer, East Herford - British, Training Adviser, Germany, Avon Wickham and Welling, Gt. London South East British Scouts Western Europe Susan Ann Hathaway, District Scout Active Duncan Osmond Horner, Unit Assistant, Malcolm John Gillies, Group Supporter, 77th Support Member, Brownsea Island, National Crouch Valley, County Scout Network Leader, Glasgow, Eastwood, Clyde – Scotland Headquarters, Beaver Scout Leader, 1st Frimley Essex Michael Charles Goakes, Scout Leader, 1st Green & Mytchett St Andrews, District Philip John Houghton, Assistant Group Scout March, Fenland, Cambridgeshire Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Surrey Leader, 1st Hawarden, Flintshire, Clwyd Paul Martyn Goldsmith, Group Scout Leader, Heath, County Leader Beaver Scouts, Surrey Alan Surrage Hubber, Assistant District 3rd Beddington (St Michaels), Sutton, Gt. London Robert Dawson Hay, UKC - Contingent Commissioner (Activities), Rushcliffe, Training South West Support Team, 22nd WSJ - Contingent Members, Adviser, Nottinghamshire Mark Geoffrey Goodall, Scout Leader, 88th 22nd World Scout Jamboree 2011, District William Edward Humphreys, District Scout Leicester (St Peters Oadby), Training Adviser, Explorer Scout Commissioner, Explorer Scout Active Support Member, Newport, Gwent Deputy District Commissioner, District Nights Leader, Deveron, North East – Scotland Graham Keith Hunt, Assistant Cub Scout Away Adviser, Leicester South East, Leicestershire Joan Mary Heath, Assistant District Leader, 28th Doncaster (St Edmunds), District John Goodwin, District Appointments Commissioner (Cub Scouts), Training Adviser, Camp Warden, Doncaster Danum, South Yorkshire Chairman, Lewisham District, Gt. London South District Scout Active Support Member, District William Hurst, Scout Leader, 18th Pamela Lesley Goodwin, Group Secretary, Appointments Advisory Committee Member, Gainsborough (St Nicholas) Haxey, Gainsborough, 6th Lewisham South (St Andrew’s), District Surrey Heath, Surrey Lincolnshire

St George’s Day 11 Anthony Philip Husbands, Group Scout Colin Stuart Liddle, District Commissioner, Stuart John McGowan, Group Scout Leader, Leader, 1st St. Mary’s Over Cambridge, District Training Adviser, Pentland, Scout Active Support 4th Pudsey (Church Lane Methodist), District Scout Active Support Member, Training Adviser, Member - Scotland, South East – Scotland Scout Active Support Member, West Leeds, Cambridge Crafts Hill, Cambridgeshire Michael St.John Line, formerly District Scout Central Yorkshire Barry Jackson, Assistant District Commissioner, Active Support Member, Slough, Royal Berkshire Ann Elizabeth McKenna, Assistant Scout Leeds Templars, Central Yorkshire Norman Long, Assistant Group Scout Leader, Leader, 10th North Leeds, The Grammer School At Keith Ronald Jackson, County Appointments 2nd Denham, District Scout Active Support Leeds, North Leeds, Central Yorkshire Chairman, County Executive Member, Member, Woodlands, Buckinghamshire Rex Meaden, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Bedfordshire Stella Florence Long, Group Scout Leader, 227th Bristol (St Peter’s), Cabot, Assistant County Robert James, Scout Leader, 1st & 3rd 2nd Denham, District Scout Active Support Commissioner (Cub Scouts), County Adviser, Avon Stowmarket (Phoenix), Stowmarket, Suffolk Member, Woodlands, Buckinghamshire Lesley Micklewright, District Appointment Ann Jewett, District Secretary, District Patricia Ann Lucas, Group Treasurer, 85th Advisory Committee Member, District Badge Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Tees Stoke on Trent & Newcastle (1st Milton), Potteries Secretary, District Scout Shop Manager, Valley North, Scout Active Support Member, North, Staffordshire Middlesbrough, Cleveland Cleveland Jean Mary Ludlow, District Scout Active Stephen Micklewright, District Appointment Janet Helen Jobson, District Scout Active Support Member, Dorking, Surrey Advisory Committee Member, District Secretary, Support Member, Reigate, Assistant County Anna Maria MacPherson, Group Scout District Scout Active Support Member, Commissioner (Cub Scouts), Surrey Leader, 5th Carshalton, Training Adviser, Sutton, Middlesbrough, Cleveland Ailsa Elizabeth Johnson, Deputy District Gt. London South West Roger William Miller, Group Scout Leader, 1st Commissioner, Training Adviser, District Hugh Ian Macpherson, Group Executive Billingham, Sleaford, Lincolnshire Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Member, 3rd Glasgow (Waverley), South Western, Moira Anne Milligan, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Doncaster Danum, South Yorkshire Clyde – Scotland Dyce, District Scout Active Support Member, Barbara Jones,Group Scout Leader, 1st Bentley James Francis Maher, Group Scout Leader, 1st Aberdeen, North East – Scotland (Scoutlink), Banstead, Surrey Winchcombe, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire Hazel Felicity Milne, Group Scout Leader, 19th John William Jones, formerly District Kathleen Anne Mahoney, Beaver Scout Keighley (Ingrow), Keighley, West Yorkshire Chairman, Flintshire, Clwyd Leader, 17th Tonbridge (Methodist Church), Christine Evelyn Milnes, Assistant Cub Scout Sheila Jones, formerly District Cub Scout Training Adviser, District Scout Active Support Leader, 1st Belper, Belper, Derbyshire Leader, Deputy District Commissioner, Training Member, Tonbridge, County Leader Beaver Scouts, John Michael Milward, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Adviser, Flintshire, Clwyd Kent West Moors, East Dorset, County Safety Patricia Jordan, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Julie Margaret Mair, Cub Scout Leader, Group Co-ordinator, Local Training Manager, Dorset Scarborough, Scarborough and District, North Contact, 1st New Forest North (Lyndhurst), Howard Mitchell, District Commissioner Yorkshire Assistant Explorer Scout Leader, New Forest (Acting), District Secretary (Acting), Pendle, Kerry Edward Robert Judd BSC (Hons), North, Trainer, Training Adviser, Hampshire District Commissioner, Burnley, East Lancashire Laurence Majury, Group Scout Leader, 110th Deputy Centre Manager - Gilwell Park, District Ronwen Mitchell, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Belfast (St Bernadette), South East Belfast, Belfast Scout ActiveSupport Member, 2nd Gilwell Park 8th Bingley (1st Denholme), Aire Valley, West Dr Gordon Makinson, Group Treasurer, 14th Active Support Unit, Headquarters Yorkshire Canterbury, Canterbury, Whitstable & Herne Bay, Christopher John Keane, District Toni Rachel Mitchell, Deputy District Kent Commissioner, Boston, Lincolnshire Commissioner, Explorer Scout Leader (Youth Barry Charles Manley MILM, County Robert Stewart Kenning, Assistant Scout Leader), Harlow and District, Local Training Member, Gt. London North East Leader, 1st West Ewell, Epsom and Ewell, Surrey Administrator, Essex Robert Sebastian Mann, Group Scout Leader, Peter Kent, Group Scout Leader, 1st 11th Wallington - St Elphege R.C, Sutton, Gt. David William Moesli, District Explorer Scout Guisborough Lord Guisborough’s Own, East London South West Commissioner, Gravesham, Kent Cleveland, Cleveland Robert Michael Manning, Assistant Camp Peter Charles Moody, County Chairman, Ian Timothy King, Scout Leader, 1st Warden, District Supporter, District Adviser, Hampshire Wallington, Sutton, Gt. London South West Thurrock, Essex John Clifford Moon, UK Arab Scout Region James Andrew John Laird, District Scout Sally Ann Manning, Cub Scout Leader, Group Scout Active Support Unit, National Active Support Member, Ayrshire East, South West Contact, Stifford Sea Scouts, Thurrock, Essex Headquarters,District Appointments Advisory - Scotland Christine Valerie Marett, Cub Scout Leader, Committee Member, District Scout Active Support Derek Adrian Lambert, Group Scout Leader, 2nd Jersey (Greve d’Azette), Jersey Member, Axe, Avon 5th Sutton (St Barnabas), Sutton, Gt. London Alan Stanley Margetts, Scout Leader, 25th Charles Robert Moore, District Media South West Newham (St George’s), Newham, Gt. London Development Manager, South East Antrim, County Vanessa Lambert, Cub Scout Leader, 5th North East Antrim Sutton (St Barnabas), District Cub Scout Leader, Geoffrey Markwell, Group Executive Member, Malcolm Terence Moore, Assistant District Sutton, Gt. London South West Silver Leys (Bishop’s Stortford), District Chairman, Commissioner, District Executive Member, District Robert Roy Lamont, Group Chairman, 3rd Bishops Stortford and District, Hertfordshire Appointments Chairman, Lincoln, Lincolnshire Belfast (St Brendans), East Belfast, Belfast Gillian Mason, Assistant District Commissioner Grace Morl, District Scout Active Support Neil John George Lawrie, Group Scout (Activities), Nene, Cambridgeshire Co-ordinator, Chingford, Gt. London North East Leader, 9th Aberdeen, Aberdeen, North East – Philip Raymond Matthews, Group Treasurer, John Cecil Morris, District Scout Active Scotland 8th Lewisham South, Lewisham District, Gt. Support Co-ordinator, Potteries North, Patricia Elizabeth Lawson, Cub Scout London South Staffordshire Leader, 25th Picton, District Executive Member, Ian Rodney May, Deputy District William Neil Morrison, Assistant Cub Scout District Administrator, District Appointment Commissioner, Reading Central, Training Adviser, Leader, 36th Lanarkshire (3rd Shotts), Calder, Advisory Committee Member, Liverpool South, Royal Berkshire Clyde – Scotland Merseyside Martin Maynard, Group Scout Leader, 43rd James Brendon Mortiboy, Group Contact, Elizabeth Jane Legge, Group Executive Salford (Hope), District Executive Member, Scout Leader, 1st Ipplepen, Teignbridge, Devon Member, Occasional Helper, 1st/2nd Parkeston, Salford, Gt. Manchester West Jean Emily Mottram, Beaver Scout Leader, Tendring, Essex Andrew Robert McBain, District 7th Warrington (Sankey Valley), District Beaver Ronald Arthur Leonard, Group Scout Leader, Commissioner, Wokingham, Training Adviser, Scout Leader, Warrington West, Cheshire County 23rd Croydon 1st South Norwood, Croydon, Gt. Royal Berkshire Scout Council London South West Bruce Wardle McCormack, Cub Scout Madeleine Ann Munn, District Scout Active Derek William Lewis, Assistant District Leader, Group Scout Leader, 99th Belfast Support Member, Milton Keynes Great Ouse, Commissioner, District Member, Middlesbrough, (Belmont), East Belfast, Belfast Buckinghamshire Cleveland David McGarrity, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Barbara Mary Murphy, Assistant District Wilfred Jack Lewis, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Bicester, Bicester, Oxfordshire Commissioner, District Secretary (Acting), Whitehead (St Patricks), South East Antrim, Gillian Yvonne McGarrity, Cub Scout Leader, Ladybrook Valley, Assistant County Training County Antrim 1st Kirtlington, Bicester, Oxfordshire Manager, County Secretary, Gt. Manchester East

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Jacqueline Margaret Nash, District Adviser, Iain George Edward Rider, District Clifford Shears, Scout Active Support Training Adviser, Harlow and District, Essex Commissioner, Thurrock, Scout Active Support Manager, Oxfordshire Stuart William Naylor, District Camp Warden, Member, Essex Raymond Arthur John Shelton, District District Vice President, Altrincham and District, Gt. Anita Dorothy Ring, Assistant District Treasurer, Cardiff East & South, Cardiff & Vale Of Manchester West Commissioner (Cub Scouts), Castle Point, Essex Glamorgan John Thomas Nelson, Group Scout Leader, Neil Brian Roberts, District Scout Leader, Jennifer Shemilt, Group Scout Leader, 1st 29th Rugby (St Peter’s and St John’s), District Wyre, County Nights Away Adviser, County Endon (St Lukes), District Executive Member, Scout Active Support Member, Rugby, Administrator, West Lancashire Moorlands, Staffordshire Warwickshire Malcolm James Robinson, District Scout Peter Leslie Sidwell, District Executive Brian Christopher Newton, Scout Leader, Active Support Member, Appointments Secretary, Member, District Media Development Manager, Central Dorchester, Dorchester, Assistant County Medehamstede, County Appointment Advisory District Scout Active Support Member, Commissioner (Scouts), Dorset Committee Member, County Treasurer, County Medehamstede, Cambridgeshire Jill Dorothy Norman, Cub Scout Leader, Executive Member, Cambridgeshire Anthony Brian Smith, District Scout Leader, Ferriby and Swanland, Haltemprice, County William Rogers, formerly District Camp Horsham Weald, West Sussex Adviser For Shooting, Humberside Warden, North Leeds, Central Yorkshire Jean Smith, Assistant Scout Leader, 38th Beatrice Doreen Old, Group Member, 11th Margaret Roper, Assistant District Rossendale, Rossendale Valley, East Lancashire Southampton West, District Scout Active Support Commissioner (Beaver Scouts), Potters Bar and John Kemlow Smith, District Scout Active Member, Southampton City, Hampshire District, Local Training Manager, Hertfordshire Support Member, Keighley, West Yorkshire Carol Marie Oliver, County Secretary, County Ian Terence Rowney, Scout Leader, 1st Kenneth Frederick Smith, Assistant Cub Adviser Special Needs, County Appointments Horndean, Waterlooville, County Scout Network Scout Leader, 3rd Cheam, Sutton, Gt. London Secretary, Humberside Leader, Hampshire South West John Barrie Oliver, District Scout Active Jane Ellen Rowney, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Kathleen Mary Smith, Assistant County Support Manager, Central Notts, Nottinghamshire Horndean, Waterlooville, Hampshire Commissioner (Beaver Scouts), Kent Michael Daragh O’Malley, National Patricia Ann Royle, District Commissioner, Thomas Edgar Smith, formerly District Scout Headquarters Volunteer, National Headquarters, District Scout Active Support Member, Flintshire, Fellowship Member, Benton, Northumberland Assistant County Commissioner (Adult Support), Area Training Manager, Clwyd Sean Gregory Sogeler, Scout Leader, 9th County Training Manager, Wiltshire Keith Malcolm Laurence Rudyard, District Purley & District (St John the Baptist), Croydon, Gt. Alison Celia Otero, Beaver Scout Leader, 1st Chairman, Wansdyke, Avon London South West Combs, Stowmarket, Suffolk Helen Ryding, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 1st Deborah Southworth-Henderson, Deputy Robert James Paine, District Scout Active Billinghay, Sleaford, Lincolnshire District Commissioner, District Appointments Support Member, District Supporter, Salisbury and Patricia Ann Sadler, Assistant District Advisory Committee Member, Tynemouth, South Wilts, Wiltshire Commissioner (Beaver Scouts), Bury St Edmunds, Training Adviser, Northumberland Lyn Frances Parker, District Scout Active Suffolk Alan Frederick Sowter, District Appointment Support Member, Wolsey, Suffolk Andrew Maxwell David Sampson, Group Advisory Committee Member, District Executive Francis Thomas Parkinson, Group Scout Scout Leader, 4th Ilford North, Ilford Northwest, Member, District Scout Leader, District Active Support Member, 77th Glasgow, Gt. London North East Appointments Chairman, District Scout Active Eastwood, Clyde – Scotland Alan Savery (posthumous), Explorer Scout Support Member, Derby East, Derbyshire Leader, St Helens and District, Merseyside Caroline Elizabeth Mary Pattenden, Group Pearl Diane Spall, Group Executive Member, Martin Henry Sawyer, Group Scout Leader, Scout Leader, 21st Walthamstow Winchester 1st Bury St Edmunds Mayor’s Own, District Scout 7th Bicester (Stratton Audley), District Executive Road, Appointments Secretary, Training Adviser, Active Support Member, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Member, Bicester, Oxfordshire Waltham Forest South, Gt. London North East Bryon Sparkes, Group Supporter, 1st Loddon, Annita Anne Scruby, District Cub Scout Phillip Ronald Pegg BA (Hons), Dip Mngmt, Training Adviser, Southern Norwich, Norfolk Leader, District Nights Away Adviser, District Scout MCMI, County Training Administrator, Trainer, Norman Spencer, Branch Chief Commissioner, Active Support Member, Stowmarket, Suffolk County Scout Leader, Hampshire Lesley Margaret Sculley, Training Adviser, Antigua and Barbuda, Overseas Branches Peter Ambrose Perry, County Supporter, Lincolnshire Brian Leonard Spray, Group Chairman, Birmingham Andrew John Scully, County Scouter, Trainer, Tadley, District Administrator, District Chairman, Diane Janet Philbey, Assistant District Avon Silchester, Local Training Manager, Hampshire Commissioner (Beaver Scouts), District Nights Colin Stuart Seabrook, Local Training Mark Adrian Stageman, District Away Adviser, Training Adviser, District Manager, Suffolk Commissioner (Acting), Huddersfield North, Administrator, District Active Support Member, Michael Harrison Seager, District Manager of the Activity Permit Scheme, County Ely, Cambridgeshire Commissioner, District Scout Active Support Commissioner, West Yorkshire Martin Denis Platts, District Commissioner, Member, District Executive Member, Frome and Jeffrey Roy Stamford, District Chairman, District Scout Active Support Member, Training District, Somerset Sleaford, Lincolnshire Adviser, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Ronald Cyril See, District Appointments Wendy Ann Stanley,Assistant Cub Scout Derek Prentice, Scout Leader, 1st Oulton Broad Chairman, District Executive Member, Basildon, Leader, 50th Cambridge (Milton), Cambridge, Sea Scouts, District Scout Active Support Member, Essex Cambridgeshire Lowestoft, Suffolk Paul Edwin Seward, Assistant County Ann Patricia Stead,Cub Scout Leader, 1st Janet Ann Purton, Beaver Scout Leader, 8th Commissioner (Explorer Scouts), Gt. London South North Sutton, Sutton, Gt. London South West Cheam, Sutton, Gt. London South West West Dianna Steele, Cub Scout Leader, 1st Headley, Barbara Rhiannon Raggett, Cub Scout Dr David Newton Shackleton, County Skills Silchester, Training Adviser, Hampshire Leader, 34th Camberwell, District Scout Active Instructor, North Yorkshire John York Stenhouse, Group Supporter, 6th Support Member, Albany District, Gt. London Andrew Sharkey, Group Scout Leader, 10th Tynemouth (Holy Saviour’s), District Supporter, South Lanarkshire (2nd Lanark), District Explorer Scout Tynemouth, Northumberland Eileen Frances Rands, District Appointment Leader, Clydesdale, Regional Adviser Activities - Richard John Stevenson, Group Scout Advisory Committee Member, District Scotland, Manager of the Activity Permit Scheme, Leader, 3rd Christchurch, District Nights Away Appointments Chairman, Kingswood, Avon Regional Administrator, Trainer, Clyde – Scotland Adviser, Christchurch and District, Dorset Nigel Redfern, Scout Leader,1st Sawley, District Hilary Inez Gloria Sharman, District Charles Douglas Stewart, Group Treasurer, Scout Active Support Member, Assistant Camp Appointment Advisory Committee Member, 77th Glasgow, Eastwood, Clyde – Scotland Warden, Long Eaton And District, Derbyshire Silchester, Hampshire Margaret Lilian Stickland, Cub Scout Leader, Laraine Alice Reeves, Local Training Manager, Alan Sharpe, District Scout Leader, Boston, 9th Colchester, Assistant District Commissioner Gt. Manchester West Lincolnshire (Cub Scouts), Colchester Estuary, Essex Caroline Jane Relton, International Service Bryan Sidney Sharpe, Group Chairman, 3rd Gary Stronach, Scout Leader, 2nd Thurso, Team Member, 22nd World Scout Jamboree - North Watford (1st Abbots Langley), District Assistant District Commissioner (Scouts), Contingent Members, 22nd World Scout Jamboree Executive Member, Watford North, Hertfordshire Caithness, Highlands and Islands – Scotland 2011, National Headquarters, District Scout Active Ian Andrew Sharpe, Scout Leader, 1st Malcolm Douglas Strudwick, Assistant Support Member, Eastbourne And District, East Molescroft, District Nights Away Adviser, Beverley Scout Leader, 2nd Worthing, Worthing, West Sussex, County Scouter, Lincolnshire and Hornsea, Humberside Sussex

St George’s Day 13 Gillian Audrey Patricia Stuart, Group Scout Olive Joan Turner, Group Scout Leader, 1st Raymond John Wickes, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 121st Glasgow (Clarkston), Training Shawbury Air Scout, Tern Valley, Shropshire Leader, 2nd Sydenham (St Michaels Sydenham), Adviser, Eastwood, Clyde – Scotland Francis Carl Ultsch, Scout Leader, 1st Fritwell, Lewisham District, Gt. London South Vera Amelia Sturgeon, formerly District Scout Bicester, Oxfordshire David John Wilcockson, Group Secretary, Active Support Member, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Sheila Ann Ultsch, Beaver Scout Leader, 1st Group Contact, 6th Bridlington, District Scout Sylvia Margaret Summers, District Fritwell, Bicester, Oxfordshire Active Support Member, Bridlington, Humberside Commissioner, Redditch, Local Training Manager, Paul Martin Upton, Assistant Cub Scout Trevor James Wilkins, District Commissioner, Training Adviser, Hereford & Worcester Leader, 3rd Itchen North (Bitterne), Itchen North, District Nights Away Adviser, District Adviser For Peter Milner Sutherst, County Media Training Adviser, Hampshire Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Rutland, Lincolnshire Development Manager, Bedfordshire Eric Leslie Vann, District Scout Active Support Andrew James Williams, Assistant Explorer Reverend Alan William Swanborough, Manager, Tern Valley, Shropshire Scout Leader, District Treasurer, Teesdale, Durham District Chaplain, District Executive Member, East Carol Ann Victory, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, Robert John Williams, District Vice President, Wight, Isle Of Wight 1st Thors Oak, District Scout Active Support Stowmarket, Suffolk Ian Henderson Tait, District Chairman, District Member, District Appointment Advisory Jessamy Wilson, Assistant Group Scout Leader, Scout Active Support Member, Falkirk, Forth - Committee Member, Training Adviser, 1st Emmbrook, Wokingham, Training Adviser, Scotland Stanford-le-Hope and District, Essex Royal Berkshire Michael John Tarrant, Group Scout Leader, Peter Langford Victory, Assistant Cub Scout Erica Joy Wimbush, Cub Scout Leader, 1st The 24th Basingstoke West, Basingstoke West, Leader, 1st Thors Oak, District Scout Active Sibfords, Banbury, Oxfordshire Hampshire Support Member, Appointments Secretary, John Lindsay Winder, District President, Martin Edward Taylor, District Explorer Scout Administrator, District Explorer Scout Leader, Training Adviser, Stanford-le-Hope and District, Barrow In Furness, Cumbria Macclesfield and Congleton, Cheshire County Essex Mark Trasler Wingett, Group Supporter, 1st Scout Council David Voy, Scout Leader, 6th Clydebank, Nork (St Pauls), Camp Warden, Assistant District Sydney Taylor, Group Scout Leader, 9th Redcar Dunbartonshire, West – Scotland Commissioner, District Scout Network Leader, (Coatham Church), District Executive Member, Keith Wagstaff, District Scout Active Support District Appointments Advisory Committee Redcar and Eston, Cleveland Member, Bridlington, Humberside Member, District Camp Warden, Banstead, Surrey Robin John Taylor-Milton, District Explorer Peter James Wallace, District Administrator, Dr Aileen Jane Wood BA (Hons) PhD MA Scout Commissioner, Assistant Explorer Scout Stamford and Bourne, Lincolnshire FCLIP MITOL AssocCIPD, District Leader, Romsey, County Boat Inspector, Assessor Kevin George Wallis, Appointments Secretary, Administrator, Assistant District Commissioner, for Kayaking, Assessor for Rafting (Traditional), District Scout Active Support Co-ordinator, District Itchen South, County Adviser, Safeguarding Hampshire Secretary, South East Europe Active Support Unit, Awareness Co-ordinator, Training Adviser, Peter Terry, Group Scout Leader, 21st National Headquarters Volunteer, National Hampshire Rossendale (St Mary’s), Rossendale Valley, East Headquarters, District Appointment Advisory David Alan Wood, Group Chairman, 1st Lancashire Committee Member, Cotswold Edge, Assistant Codicote, Assistant District Treasurer, District Leonard John Walter Thacker, District Scout County Commissioner (International), County Scout Active Support Member, Mid Herts, Network Leader, Glendon, County Adviser, Scouter, Avon Hertfordshire Northamptonshire John Neil Warburton, Group Scout Leader, Gillian Shirley Wood, District Secretary, Nigel Andrew Theaker, District Explorer Scout Bean (Dartford), Dartford, Kent Biggleswade, Bedfordshire Commissioner, Lichfield, Camp Warden, Kenneth Ward, Group Scout Leader, 2nd Stephen William Woodrow, Cub Scout Staffordshire Tynemouth, Tynemouth, Northumberland Leader, 10th Romsey (Woodley & Crampmoor), Deborah Gail Thomas, UKC - Assistant Unit Michael Warwick, Group Scout Leader, 2nd Romsey, Hampshire Leader, 22nd WSJ - Contingent Member, 22nd Rossendale (Bacup Parish Church), Rossendale Robert Charles Wopling, District World Scout Jamboree 2011, National Valley, East Lancashire Appointment Advisory Committee Member, Headquarters, Assistant County Commissioner Andrew John Watson, Scout Leader, 20th District Chairman, District Public Relations Officer, (Cub Scouts), Dorset Sheffield (Ecclesall Church), Sheffield Hallam, District Scout Active Support Member, District Dr Nicholas Stuart Tudor Thomas, formerly South Yorkshire Media Development Manager, Colchester North, District Commissioner, District Supporter, Penarth Joan Weatherby, Assistant Beaver Scout Essex And District, Cardiff & Vale Of Glamorgan Leader, 88th Salford (Servites), District Executive Geoffrey William Wright, District Nights Peter Michael Thomas, Group Skills Member, District Adviser, Salford, Gt. Manchester Away Adviser, District Scout Active Support Instructor, 1st Severn Beach, Cotswold Edge, Avon West Member, Guildford East, Surrey Michael Alan Thompson, District Scout Active Ailsa Elizabeth Weaver, Group Scout Leader, Robin Leonard Wright, Group Scout Leader Support Member, District Supporter, Gang Show 1st Stoke Climsland, Group Scout Leader, 1st (Acting), 1st Willingham, Gainsborough, Set Designer, Glendon, Northamptonshire Tamar Valley, District Nights Away Adviser, East Lincolnshire Aileen Thomson, Appointments Secretary, Cornwall, Cornwall Michael Alexander Wrightson, Scout District Commissioner, Inverleith, Scout Active Christopher Sidney John Webster, County Leader, Sewerby Methodist (Bridlington), Support Member - Scotland, South East – Scotland Member, Scout Active Support Member, Essex Bridlington, Humberside Dr Stuart Nigel Thorne, Group Scout Leader,1st Barnham, District Scout Active Support Michael Stephen Percy Wenham, District Isabel Louisa Yeldham, District Scout Active Member, Arundel and Littlehampton, West Sussex Chairman, District Scout Active Support Member, Support Member, Christchurch and District, Dorset Steven David Tibbert, Deputy District Cromwell, Cambridgeshire Commissioner, District Nights Away Adviser, John Westerman, County Explorer Scout District Administrator, Mid Wiltshire, Wiltshire Leader, County Adviser For Shooting, Hampshire Jill Tomkins, Cub Scout Leader, 4th Ashford Linda Westerman, Group Treasurer, 29th (Middlesex), Spelthorne, Surrey Southampton (Immaculata), Southampton City, Peter George Earl Treagust, Group Scout Hampshire Leader, 6th/12th Mitcham Sea Scouts, District John Charles Clifford White, District Scout Scout Active Support Member, Wimbledon and Active Support Member, Thanet, Kent Wandle, Training Adviser, County Boat Inspector, Malcolm Alfred Whitehead,Group Scout Gt. London South West Leader, 6th Reigate, Reigate, Surrey Paul Enos Tucker, Assistant Island Graham Paul Whitehouse, District Commissioner (Explorer Scouts), Deputy Island Commissioner, West Lothian, Forth – Scotland Commissioner, Island Scout Network Co-ordinator, Sidney Whittles, District Scout Active Support Scout Active Support Co-ordinator, Jersey Member, Haltemprice, Assistant District Colin Frank Turner, County Member, Commissioner (Cub Scouts), District Appointments Hertfordshire Advisory Committee Member, District Nights David Frederick Charles Turner, Group Away Adviser, District Scout Active Support Scout Leader 18th Truro (St George’s), District Member, West Hull, Training Adviser, Scout Active Executive Member, Truro, Cornwall Support Member, Humberside

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Good Service Awards Applications for Good Service can be submitted at any time of the year and if approved, the Chief Scout’s Commendation for Good Service, Award for Merit Chief Scout’s Award for Merit and its Bar are ‘In recognition of outstanding Commendation awarded usually within six weeks service’ (Headquarters and of application being received. County/Area appointments only) for Good Service Applications for the Silver Wolf, Silver ‘In recognition of good service’ The Award for Merit is given (Headquarters and County/Area Acorn and its Bar are usually for ‘outstanding service’ of not less considered for inclusion in the than 12 years, but exceptionally after appointments only) St George’s Day Awards list, although ten years. This award is given in respect of not they can be requested ‘out of season’ Leah Cross, PA to the Director of Programme less than five years’ good service, given exceptional circumstances. & Development, Headquarters which stands out. It is the Chief David James Gillard, District Scout Active Scout’s recognition of the very real Nominations that are made by Support Member, 2nd Gilwell Park Active contribution made to the Association Headquarters for members of staff Support Unit, Headquarters by the individual concerned. or some County/Area Appointments Steven Mark Jewell, Appointments Secretary, District Scout Active Support for their service to Scouting occur Oliver Arthur, Group Chairman, 11th Member, Activity Centre Manager, Downe Ipswich (Castle Hill), Wolsey, Suffolk, Regional once a year within the St George’s Scout Activity Centre, Headquarters Development Officer, East of England, Richard Albert Keeber, District Day Awards. Headquarters Commissioner, Directly Administered- Simon Robert Brown, Assistant Cub Scout Birmingham, County Commissioner, Leader, 2nd Bangor (Abbey Parish), North Birmingham Down, County Down, Group Scout Leader, Victoria Elizabeth Pearson, Regional Newbold on Stour, Stratford upon Avon, Commissioner, North East England, Warwickshire, National Headquarters Headquarters Volunteer, Headquarters Elizabeth Perez, Manager, Baden-Powell Genesio Vieira Gomes Filho ,Scout House, Headquarters Leader, Group Contact, 1st Kensington (Baden-Powell House), West London, Gt. London Middlesex West, Conference Assistant, Headquarters Brigitte Hurlock, Assistant Cub Scout Leader, 32nd Chingford, Chingford, Gt. London North East, Administrative Assistant, Headquarters Malik ‘Rachid’ Laoubi, Conference Assistant, Baden-Powell House, Headquarters Joanna Sarah Innis Moya, Safeguarding Assistant, Headquarters Lawrie Herbert Skinner – Silver Wolf William Alan Teare, formerly Island Commissioner, District Commissioner, Training ‘My Scoutmaster was a rear gunner in Lancaster Adviser, Isle Of Man bombers and his assistant was ex-8th army. They Paul Tedder, Maintenance Assistant, inspired me the most. Scouting was magic. The Headquarters programmes were exciting and adventurous and we were always out in the country hiking and camping and using the skills we had learned. I have held many leader appointments, creating the same magic I found in Scouting for countless young people, and I am privileged to carry this on now as a Training Adviser.’

Lawrie joined the Movement as a Scout in 1947, taking up his first Leader appointment ten years later. He has since taken on various roles, passing on his vast in-depth knowledge of practical skills. In his role with Scout Active Support, Lawrie visits local Scout groups who are keen to pick up on his scouting knowledge. As a Training For a complete list of award Adviser, Lawrie has built up a great relationship with the learners recipients throughout he supports and also with his Local Training Manager and County the year, please visit Training Manager. www.scouts.org.uk/awards

St George’s Day 15 County: Although in some parts of the British Isles Scout Counties are known as Areas or Islands - and in one case Bailiwick - for ease of reading this publication simply refers to County/Counties. In Scotland there is no direct equivalent to County or Area. In Scotland, Scouting is organised into Districts and Regions, each with distinct responsibilities. Some ‘County’ functions are the responsibility of Scottish Regions, whilst others lie with Scottish Districts. The focus of responsibility is outlined in Scottish variations from POR

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