[The Story of Baden-Powell by Harold Begbie]@TWC D-Link book
The Story of Baden-Powell

CHAPTER V
19/19

was getting up a military display on its behalf.
Before leaving this subject, let us mention that Baden-Powell was Brigade-Major to the Heavy Brigade at the Jubilee Review of 1887, that he was sent by Lord Wolseley to arrange about machine guns for cavalry use at Aldershot, that he was Secretary to the British Commission at Swaziland in 1888, and in the same year was elected a member of the United States Cavalry Association.

One of his most important staff appointments was that of Assistant Military Secretary to the Governor of Malta, where his work for the amelioration of the soldiers' and sailors' lives produced lasting benefits.
His work as a regimental officer will be more fully dealt with in a later chapter..


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books