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Most of those present received the Queen's Scout Award, the highest honour a scout can achieve.

The Queen's Scout Award is awarded to those scouts aged between 16 and 25 for achievements including carrying out regular community service for a year and completing a four-day expedition in unknown terrain.

Polite and well-dressed, he had worked as an architect for the former Gwynedd county council, was an accomplished mountain climber, the president of his local climbing club, a Queen's scout leader and an experienced bee keeper.

Last week, on the grounds that virtue in both of these pursuits is incompatible, the British Boy Scouts Association asked Queen's Scout Garland to turn in his uniform.