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The World Organization of the Scout Movement is the largest and, after the Order of World Scouts is the second oldest international scout organization, having been established in 1922. It has 176 members. These members are national scout organizations that founded WOSM or have subsequently been recognised by WOSM, which collectively have around 43 million participants. Its operational headquarters is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia while it is legally based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Scouts of Syria is the national Scout and Guide organization of Syria. Scouting in Syria was founded in 1912; Guiding started in the 1950s. The coeducational association serves 9,358 members and is a member of both the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
Colonel John Skinner "Belge" Wilson (1888–1969) was a Scottish scouting luminary and friend and contemporary of General Baden-Powell, recruited by him to head the World Organization of the Scout Movement's bureau. Wilson was its acting director from 1938 to 1939, following the death of Hubert S. Martin. He was elected in 1939 and remained in office until 1951. He then became Honorary President of WOSM for four years.
The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) Bronze wolf award is awarded by WOSM for "outstanding service by an individual to the World Scout Movement".
Colonel Granville Walton, OBE, CMG (1888-1974) served as The Boy Scouts Association Headquarters Commissioner for Overseas Scouts and, later, was Assistant Chief Scout to the Association's Chief Scout, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell.
Count Yorihiro Matsudaira, Riji of Hongō Gakue, who was the descendant of the feudal lord of the former Takamatsu Domain, served as the International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of Japan as well as president of the Kagawa Scout Council. He was one of the original founders of Japanese Scouting in 1922.
Kō Yoshida served as a member of the World Scout Committee, the International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of Nippon, and as a member of the board of the World Scout Foundation.
Park Kun-bae served as President of the Boy Scouts of Korea, and as a member of the World Scout Committee.
John George Ravenhall of Melbourne, Australia was the Scout Association of Australia's chief commissioner from 2003 to early 2009, a World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) Asia-Pacific committee member and member its training and adult resources committees.
Bruce Hugh Garnsey was a chairman of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) Asia Pacific committee.
Franz Dunshirn served as the President of the Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs, the Austrian Scout and Guide association.
Hassan Al-Ali served as General Secretary and International Commissioner of the Kuwait Boy Scouts Association.
Neil M. Westaway, of Victoria, Australia was The Scout Association of Australia's chief commissioner, as well as the chairman of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) committee and chairman of its Scout Resources International (SCORE) board, replacing Kun-Bae Park.
José Plaridel A. Silvestre was a writer and a senior official of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, who served as the Asia-Pacific Regional Commissioner of the World Scout Bureau.
Charles Dymoke Green Jr. was The Boy Scouts Association's Commonwealth commissioner until 1970 and the World Organization of the Scout Movement's committee chairman.
John R. Phillpot served as the International Commissioner of the Scout Association of the Bahamas.
Major Sir Marc Noble served as the Commonwealth Commissioner of the Scout Association, as well as the Chairman of the World Budget and Treasury Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.
Jos Loos served as the International Commissioner and General Commissioner of the Luxembourg Boy Scouts Association. In 1991, Loos was awarded the 216th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.
Norman S. Johnson (d.1989) was a dentist, scout leader and an Australian and international Scout organisation official.
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- ↑ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
