I'm afraid I just want to tap your collective knowledge in case you can help me in research regarding the life of a man who was, I think, too young to serve in the Boer War but enlisted in Natal in 1906 and fought in the Zulu Uprising.
1n 1901 he was a 14-year-old boy on the crew of a coaster and wrote a short diary of his experience on board. But the first page wasn't about his routine but was headed 'Pannell's Scouts Uniform', (It might read Pammell's.)
Then followed six sketches. The first is labelled 'Pannell's Scouts' Sword'. The second 'Lee.Buxton's Carbine with Sturgeon's Bayonet'. Next is what looks to my layman's eye like a field gun labelled something like 'Pannell's 12-time repeating gun'. ' Then a drawing of a bicycle marked 'Bicycle 'for Scouting' and finally a picture of what looks to me like a prototype armoured car, though with a funnel for steam, unlikely as that sounds!
The remaining pages of his sea diary are solely about his life as a crew member.
Can anyone tell me what Pannell's Scouts were, if they existed, and if there was such a thing as a Pannell's Scout's Sword or a Lee Buxton's Carbine etc? (Baden Powell's Scouting For Boys, obviously came into existence years later but he used Scouts at Mafeking, I believe?) Any guidance gratefully accepted.
1n 1901 he was a 14-year-old boy on the crew of a coaster and wrote a short diary of his experience on board. But the first page wasn't about his routine but was headed 'Pannell's Scouts Uniform', (It might read Pammell's.)
Then followed six sketches. The first is labelled 'Pannell's Scouts' Sword'. The second 'Lee.Buxton's Carbine with Sturgeon's Bayonet'. Next is what looks to my layman's eye like a field gun labelled something like 'Pannell's 12-time repeating gun'. ' Then a drawing of a bicycle marked 'Bicycle 'for Scouting' and finally a picture of what looks to me like a prototype armoured car, though with a funnel for steam, unlikely as that sounds!
The remaining pages of his sea diary are solely about his life as a crew member.
Can anyone tell me what Pannell's Scouts were, if they existed, and if there was such a thing as a Pannell's Scout's Sword or a Lee Buxton's Carbine etc? (Baden Powell's Scouting For Boys, obviously came into existence years later but he used Scouts at Mafeking, I believe?) Any guidance gratefully accepted.