Photo Gallery
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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
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Olave's parents, Harold and Katherine Soames |
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Stubbing Court, Olave's birthplace. |
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Baby Olave with members of her family. She is pictured seated on her aunt's knee |
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Olave, aged 3 From Olave Baden-Powell, by Elizabeth Hartley
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Age 4 | ||
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Age 10 |
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Her father was a great fan of tennis. 1902. |
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Approximately 1907 |
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Playing her violin, "Diana" |
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Olave on her pony with her father, mother and the family dogs. |
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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. |
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More active country life - at the local pond, swimming with friends in approximately 1910. |
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With her dog Doogie. |
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An early meeting with BP, on the Arcardian, 1912. |
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Engagement photo, September 1912. |
With BP
After BP
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Olave in Switzerland, 1945. | ||
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Brisbane October 1947 |
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Olave with Mayor of Johannesburg, at the All Africa Conference in January 1948 |
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Olave with Italian Guides and Esploratrici Guiders in the Pizza Campidoglio, Rome, 1949 | ||
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Travelling by rickshaw in Hong Kong From Olave Baden-Powell, by Elizabeth Hartley |
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In Surinam From Olave Baden-Powell, by Elizabeth Hartley |
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In the Netherlands |
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In the West Indies |
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At her typewriter, in Hampton Court | ||
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With disabled Guides at the opening of the 1954 World Conference in The Hague, Netherlands. |
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In Western Australia, at the Mogumba Mission Station, in 1957 |
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Malaya 1958, at a rally in Penang to honour Olave's visit to Malaya |
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With Uruguay Guides in 1959 |
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With leper Guides in Hong Kong, 1958 |
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Meeting the Japanese Crown Princess in 1962 |
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Berlin 1964. An historic occasion, click for more details. |
| With Jamaican Guides, 1964 |
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At Lod Airport, Israel, 1964 |
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Kenya, 1965
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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 |
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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.
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Unveiling the portrait bust of the Founder at Baden-Powell House, London, September 1971. |
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With American Girl Scouts
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Mexico, date unknown
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