3rd Hendon

Note: The following has been prepared from an article that appeared in the 1957 Hendon Local Association booklet that marked 50 years of Scouting. It was prepared at their invitation by Frank Griffiths, assisted by Lionel Siret and Jack Le Fort.

Shortly after the First World War, the Troop at St. Mellitus Church, Colindeep Lane, was registered as the 7th Hendon Troop with W H Pugsley as Scoutmaster. Its activities were constantly being reported and its membership seems to have fluctuated from 30 to over 154. It had, too, a first class bugle band.

In 1921 the Troop left the Church and became known as the Mohicans – 3rd Hendon and obtained through its then President, Mr Claude Grahame-White, its own Headquarters on the Hendon Aerodrome. Mr J Wildman (now Rev. J Wildman, vicar of Burnham Beeches, Bucks) was the first Scoutmaster. In 1927, the Group moved to its present site in Market Lane, near Burnt Oak Station. Following a fire in 1944, new Headquarters were built on the site and officially opened by the then Deputy County Commissioner for London, J Ramsay O.B.E. More recently the Rev. Wildman attended the laying of the foundation stone of the Mohican Lodge.

Mention here should be made of  C C Smith, F Howard, J Abbott, D Barns, S Grundy and W J Mack and Miss P Cains, all of whom have shared in the responsibility of guiding the destinies of this old-established Group.

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According to the District Directory, dated June 1965, this Group no longer existed. It could therefore be taken that it either closed or amalgamated with another Group after 1957.

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