Scouts - various organisations

Last modified: 2001-12-13 by rob raeside
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• Scouts

  Scouting organisations:

• Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d´Europe (or "Féderation du Scoutisme Europeen")
• Bleimor (1946-62)

Seen during a celebration in Poland, in the recent visit of Pope John Paul II.

Antonio Gutiérrez G., 14 June 1999

That flag is the flag of the Polish Catholic Scouting Organisation.
A more accurate version is at the following URL:
http://ursus.ar.lublin.pl/users/pgowin/fse/sowy.htm

Robert Czernkowski, 15 June 1999

Trusting that Antonio Gutierrez image was not so inaccurate anyway, I'd ask about the evident similarity between this flag and the Templar's "beausant"... Any monk warrier order connection I'd expect in Poland would be with the Teutonic Knights, not with the Templars...

Antonio Martins-Tuvalkin, 24 June 1999

This Polish organisation is a member of the "Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d´Europe" (or "Féderation du Scoutisme Europeen").
Homepage at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/C_Velten/fsepenf.htm
The Italian branch (at http://www.fse.it/italia.html) describes two types of the flag:

• square, vertical bicolour, white at hoist; used for ceremonies;
  and
• rectangular, horisontal bicolour, white on top; used for ???

Ole Andersen, 14 July 1999

Bleimor [Seadog]

by Ivan Sache

Ivan Sache, 29 June 1999

by Ivan Sache

According to P. Rault, in Ar Banniel #6 (Summer 1998), p. 23, the movement also used a white flag with a black cross voided through and seven black ermine spots in canton. The ermine spots had an unusual 'art deco' pattern (a triangle, one vertical and two horizontal dashes).
Ivan Sache, 27 February 2001