{"id":614,"date":"2012-08-16T13:09:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=614"},"modified":"2014-12-16T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T08:58:58","slug":"the-original-scout-masters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/1908-2\/the-original-scout-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original Scout Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">This is a list of the Troop\u2019s first few Scout Masters and Assistant Scout Masters. Although it covers a period of around 20 years or so, quite a few of these men stayed in their positions for a good number of years.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">William Hockett. First Scoutmaster mid 1908 to 10th March 1909.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">William James Slack. First Assistant Scout Master mid 1908 to 10th March 1909. Scout Master from 10th March 1909 to sometime in 1912.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">William James Bourne. Assistant Scoutmaster from 9th December 1908 until sometime between 1915 &amp; 1919.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Earnest Gleaves. Scoutmaster sometime between 1912 and 1915.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Rev. Frederick Walter Cleveland. Chaplin to the Troop and probable Assistant Scout Master 1913 \u2013 1915.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">W. J. Holdbrook. 1913 in an unknown position.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Rev. John Arthur Nash. Scout Master sometime between 1915 and 1926.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">George Emmerson Smith. Assistant Scout Master between (approx) 1919 and 1927\/8 and then Scoutmaster until the early 1930s.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">William George Arthur Bird. Scout Master from 1926 to 1927\/8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a list of the Troop\u2019s first few Scout Masters and Assistant Scout Masters. Although it covers a period of around 20 years or so, quite a few of these men stayed in their positions for a good number of years. William Hockett. First Scoutmaster mid 1908 to 10th March 1909. William James Slack. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PB7Sa-9U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions\/1182"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}