Figure 1.-- One year after Lord Baden Powell established the Boys Scouting Movement in England in 1907, the first Patrol of Boy Scouts in Mount Morgan, the No.1 Crow Patrol, was formed on November 23, 1908. In the 1930s, a number of Groups resisted centralisation by the Boy Scouts Association. The Mount Morgan Troop was one of them and by far the most controversial. Here we see a group of Mount Morgan Scouts called the Blue Boy SDcouts in 1923. They are the Inis Psatrol of the 4th Mount Morgan

Australian Scouts followed the British precedent of one single Scout association rather than the European model of multiple Scout associtions, sometimes lossely associated in some kind of federation. Some countries like America even passed laws to ensdure that there was only one single Scout assoiciation organized. The original Australian association was Australian Federal Scout Council, which organizationally was an overseas Branch of the British Boys Scout Association. At the time, the constitutional status of Australia was in transition. It was a British Dominion rather than a fully independent country. A few Scout groups resisted centralization. One such group was the Blue Boy Scouts, so named because they retained some of the influence of the Boys' Brigade which had blue uniforms. The Boys' Brigade (BB)originated in Scotland in the late 19th century. The Boy Scouts were in fact developed from aogram innovation of the BB. And when Scouting came to Ausdtralia, the BB was already well organized. One year after Lord Baden Powell established the Boys Scouting Movement in England in 1907, the first Patrol of Boy Scouts in Mount Morgan, the No.1 Crow Patrol, was formed on November 23, 1908. Here we see te Mount Morgan Scouts in 1923 (figure 1). In the 1930s, a number of Groups resisted centralisation by the Boy Scouts Association. The Mount Morgan Troop was one of them and by far the most controversial. The Mount Morgan Scouts continued independently until 1957 and this was part of the reason for the resignation of the Governor of Queensland as Chief Scout of the Queensland Branch. They maintained their Boys' Brigade (BB) heritage as the "Blue" Boy Scouts, wearing blue uniforms and using a modified Scout Promise containing the BB motto ."Sure and Stedfast".