Charles Dymoke Green Jr.

Charles Dymoke Green Jr. CBE (10 February 1907 – 23 October 1988) was The Boy Scouts Association's Commonwealth commissioner until 1970 and the World Organization of the Scout Movement's World Scout Committee chairman.

Charles Dymoke Green Jr.
Chairman of the World Scout Committee
Personal details
Born10 February 1907[1]
Harpenden, St Albans, Hertfordshire[2]
Died23 October 1988(1988-10-23) (aged 81)
Watford, Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire

His father, Charles Dymoke Green Senior was a close friend of Robert Baden-Powell and involved in The Boy Scouts Association in the United Kingdom. In 1941, he was The Boy Scouts Association Rover commissioner in Colombo, Ceylon and organized a unit of mounted Scouts. He supported Kingsley C. Dassanaike work to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind.[3] In 1971, he was awarded the 63rd Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, by its World Scout Committee, for exceptional services to world Scouting,[4] the highest distinction of the Scout Association of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award,[5] and the first Silver World Award.[6]

References
  1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
  2. 1911 England Census
  3. D.C.O.T. Ameresekere (1969), Fifty Years in Scout Service. Sri Lanka Scout Association. p. 1
  4. "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  5. "Recipient of the Golden Pheasant Award of the Scout Association of Japan" (PDF). Reinanzaka Scout Club (in Japanese). 23 May 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2020.
  6. "Distinguished Service Awards". Boy Scouts of America. Archived from the original on 19 March 2008.


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