What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: On 1st March 1908 in this house Alan J. Emery aged 13, became the first Boy Scout in Hertfordshire to make the Scout Promise. Recorded plaque organisation: Hertfordshire County Scout Council.
Alan J. Emery was the first Boy Scout in Hertfordshire to make the Scout Promise on March 1, 1908, marking an early expansion of Scouting beyond its origin in London.
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