Our Group Patron - Mr. Anthony A. Bernard MD, FRCS Ed, FRCS Orth - Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
The 1st Sliema Group is proud to have received patronage from Mr. Anthony A. Bernard during our Centenary year in keeping with tradition and the shared history with the Bernard family.
The Group came to be known as Bernard's Own in the late 1930s when Lady Bernard gave her consent to this in recognition to the close affinity of her husband Colonel Sir Edgar Edwin Bernard KBE CMG Pasha of Eygpt (1866 - 1931) to the Scout Movement. He was Financial Secretary under Lord Kitchener in the Sudan, which was formerly part of Eygpt.
Sir Edgar Bernard was also Island Commissioner for Boy Scouts Malta between 1924-31 and the Scout Association's Island HQ in Floriana is known as the ''Congreve-Bernard Hall'' with this inscription:
"This Congreve-Bernard Hall was erected on the site of the original building which was destroyed by enemy action on the 7th April 1942. The necessary funds were provided by Imperial Headquarters, Scouts of South Africa and Australia, and by public subscription in Malta. The original building was erected as a memorial to the memory of General Sir Walter Norris Congreve VC, KCB, MVO, ADC, Governor and Chief Scout of Malta 1924-27 and of Colonel Sir Edgar Bernard KBE, CMG, Island Commissioner of Boy Scouts Malta 1924-31".
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