Templar Knights

There's a picture of the controversial German artist Otto Lohmüller with his "Templar Knights" Scout troop here. They look fairly traditional, although if I were being bitchy cynical I might suggest that this could be for aesthetic reasons rather than to do with actual traditional Scouting.

Lohmüller has also written - not to mention illustrated - a number Scouting novels, similar apparently to the French children's books illustrated by Pierre Joubert. One is actually listed on the Riaumont website here. On the cover of one of them, interestingly, he actually uses a cross very similar to the Scouts of Europe cross (a not, despite their name, the Cross of Jerusalem ☩ normally used by the Riaumont and Doran Scouts in France other Catholic Scouts in the same tradition).

German Scouts of Europe on the Chartres Pilgrimage

Confirmation apparently that the German (Bavarian) Scouts of Europe do indeed go on the annual Chartres Pilgrimage.

The singing would probably have been quite good, if it hadn't been for the prat in the hat with the megaphone.

For what it's worth, the banners of the different chapitres on the Chartres pilgrimage are all featured in this video here. (Is it my imagination, or do the German Scouts of Europe come considerably before and separate from the St Louis, Europa and Riamont Scouts?)

Un, deux, trois...

Another pic from the Scout Fraternity site, this one apparently a Pierre Joubert-esque depiction of the three main sorts of Scout in France - one from the "mainstream" Scouts of France on the left, one from the Scouts of Europe on the right, and in the middle a representative of one of the "traditionalist" Scout organisations - probably the Unitary Scouts. The website's stated aim is to encourage bonds of brotherhood between the three "branches".

(Good luck with that!)