Cub Scouts (Singapore Scout Association)

The Cub Scouts are part of the Singapore Scout Association (SSA). They were earlierly known as "Wolf Cubs" in the pre-1966 era when Singapore Scouting was still under the jurisdiction of the Scout Association, UK (then known as the Imperial Headquarters).

Since the early days, little attention was paid to Cubbing. The first Wolf Cub Pack in Singapore was started in Outram Road School in 1925 with a single Wolf Cub Patrol led by one Mrs H.F. Duncanson of the 9th Singapore Troop. When the Japanese Scout Troop was formed later that year, a Wolf Cub Section was included in their infrastructure. In 1927, the 3rd Singapore Troop, an offshoot of the huge 4th Singapore (SJI) Troop, was dissolved and converted into a full-fledged Wolf Cub Pack within the 4th Troop’s Structure. The 3rd Troop’s name was subsequently assigned to the Oldham Hall Troop formed in 1928.

The Wolf Cub Section however began some time back, on 1 Jan 1914 at St Stephen’s Westminster in Great Britain. Over the years, Wolf Cub Packs had begun to sprout up across the British Empire and by 1935, there were over 15,000 Packs with 275,000 Wolf Cubs and 22,000 Cubmasters. In November 1935, 10 years after the Wolf Cub Section was started in Singapore, 150 Wolf Cubs and 25 Officers made the Grand Wolf Cub’s Rally and Campfire on the old race course in Singapore in a splendid celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Wolf Cub Section in the world. By that time, there were 13 Wolf Cub Packs in Singapore.

The Wolf Cub’s Rally was led by Singapore District Scoutmaster Crickett and was lent a special note by the attendance of Fleet Scoutmaster Lawder, the Scout Commissioner for Malaya, Mr Frank Cooper Sands, the Assistant Commissioner for Malaya, Mr H.R. Cheeseman, the Chief Commissioner for Singapore Mr Cullen and the Assistant Chief Commissioner for Singapore, Rev. R. K. S. Adams.

The rally opened with the Grand Howl, the greeting of Welcome to Akela the Old Wolf, Lord Baden Powell; followed by a succession of enjoyable circle games, with each circle playing several games; jungle dances revealing a “play way” based on the romance of Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Books”, the staging of the story of Mowgli, a play “Who stole the Jam?” by the 31st Pack, competitions and games with relay races (signaling, skipping and book balancing, ball catching and knots), the rallying to the “Birthday Feast” of the Cubs and finally concluding with the big Campfire.

The term "Cadet Scouts" was adopted when the first "Policy, Organisation and Rules" of (SSA) was promulgated in 1969, after following the changes introduced by the "1966 Advance Party Report (APR)" of the UK Scout Association. The name was changed again to "Cub Scouts" in 2005 to better reflect international usage.

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