Figure 1.--These Dutch Cubs are on an outing in 1939. A few girls are with them in Scout uniformns as well as a few boys not in uniform--perhaps younger brothers not yet old enough to join the Pack. Note how almost all of the boys are wearing the full uniform which looks much like the British Cub uniform. The boys are "Celliershorde", probably meaning Celliers' pack. I'm not sure what that means. Click on the image to see the rest of the group.

Cub Scouts or Welpen are 7-10 years old. Single: `Welp', plural: `Welpen'). I'm not sure when Dutch Cubbing was founded, but suspect it was soon after the Cubs were founded in England (1916). The Welpen or Cub program is, like British scouting based on the Jungle Book-stories from Rudyard Kipling. Because all of you have read these stories at least once, I have nothing to add here. Although the majority of Cub-Packs consists of boys only, we have mixed Packs too. The uniform of the Welpen is a green blouse. A Pack ('Horde' in Dutch) consists of a maximum of 24 Welpen. The Dutch Cubs here are on an outing in 1939. A few girls are with them in Scout uniformns. Perhaps they are Dutch Girl Scouts. This is quite different than English and American Cubbing in that it was always Boy Scouts that helped with the Cubs. And Akela was always an adult. Unlike America, the Boy and Girl Scouts were not separate organizations in many foreign countries. Presumably this was the case in the Netherlands. There are also a few boys not in uniform--perhaps younger brothers not yet old enough to join the Pack. Note how almost all of the boys are wearing the full uniform which looks much like the British Cub uniform. The impage is titled "Celliershorde". I'm not sure what that means.

A Dutch reader tells us, "I believe that"Celliershorde" is the name of the Cub pack here. Horde means troop. In America the term pack is used for Cubs and troop for Scouts. Celliers is perhaps the name of a scout leader. Incidentally the family name Celliers or Cilliers is of French origins, but the name is common among the Afrikaners in South Africa. Many were of Huguenot background, forced to leave France by increasing persecution.