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Sept 05 - transferring from the Mambo Gallery to this HTML Gallery - loads more pics and more detailed captions to come! ~Sandy

Early Life

	Olave's parents, Harold and Katherine Soames		Stubbing Court, Olave's birthplace.
	Baby Olave with members of her family. She is pictured seated on her aunt's knee		Olave, aged 3 From Olave Baden-Powell, by Elizabeth Hartley
	Age 4
	Age 10		Her father was a great fan of tennis. 1902.
	Approximately 1907		Playing her violin, "Diana"
	Olave on her pony with her father, mother and the family dogs.		Living in the country gave Olave the opportunity to be very physically active. Here she's pictured on a cycling expedition with friends, approximately 1910.
	More active country life - at the local pond, swimming with friends in approximately 1910.		With her dog Doogie.
	An early meeting with BP, on the Arcardian, 1912.		Engagement photo, September 1912.

With BP

	A sketch made by BP during their 1912 camping honeymoon in North Africa.		With the Rolls Royce gifted by 100,000 Scouts who gave a penny each, to buy their Chief a wonderful wedding present. Olave was BPs chauffeur, as he disliked driving.
	The Assistant Cub Mistress - 1913		Inspecting Scouts, with BP, in 1915
	County Commissioner for Sussex, 1916		Chief Guide of England, 1918
	The Silver Fish Award, received in 1918		At the first Guider's training at the Opening of Foxlease, 1923
	The BP family in 1923 From Olave Baden-Powell, by Elizabeth Hartley		The BPs in Queensland, Australia in 1931.
	Olave with Guides at the first World Camp, Foxlease, 1924.		The children, 1925
	Receiving a bouquet from a Brownie, 1926		With Mrs Storrow, at Adelboden (home of Our Chalet), in 1931, when Mrs Storrow gifted Our Chalet to
	Unveiling "The Guide", twin to "The Scout", two British steam engines.		The World Chief Guide in 1931, following her election in 1930.
	The BPs taking the salute at a rally in the Melbourne Cricket Ground, 1931		The BPs at a rally in Melbourne, 1931
	Olave at the World Conference in Switzerland, 1934		Olave at the World Conference in Switzerland, 1934

Olave at the World Conference in Switzerland, 1934

Olave at the World Conference in Switzerland, 1934, with Swiss Guides who'd dressed in National Costume for the 'tea' with the WC Delegates.

At Pax Hill, Bentley, 1938. Lord and Lady BP with their daughter Heather.

The BPs in Kenya in 1940, just before BPs death.

From Olave Baden-Powell, by Elizabeth Hartley

After BP

		Olave in Switzerland, 1945.
	Brisbane October 1947		Olave with Mayor of Johannesburg, at the All Africa Conference in January 1948
	Olave with Italian Guides and Esploratrici Guiders in the Pizza Campidoglio, Rome, 1949
	Travelling by rickshaw in Hong Kong From Olave Baden-Powell, by Elizabeth Hartley		In Surinam From Olave Baden-Powell, by Elizabeth Hartley
	In the Netherlands		In the West Indies
	At her typewriter, in Hampton Court

With disabled Guides at the opening of the 1954 World Conference in The Hague, Netherlands.

In Western Australia, at the Mogumba Mission Station, in 1957			Malaya 1958, at a rally in Penang to honour Olave's visit to Malaya
With Uruguay Guides in 1959 Thanks to Ignacio Andreatta			With leper Guides in Hong Kong, 1958

Meeting the Japanese Crown Princess in 1962			Berlin 1964. An historic occasion, click for more details.
With Jamaican Guides, 1964			At Lod Airport, Israel, 1964

Kenya, 1965

May 1967, at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Queensland. Sylvia Ringrose (Former State Commissioner); Joan Guthrie (State Commissioner), Lady BP, and Mrs Buntine, Australian Commissioner. Photo courtesy Guides Queensland State Archives.

Receiving the Ceres Medal in 1967

Talking to Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, Whitehall, London, 1970, during the Jubilee celebrations. Both the Queen and Princess Margaret were Guides.