Serangoon/Montfort/St Gab History

  Scouting Movement in the Inter-war Years: Before the Cassocks When we picture scouting in our Montfortian Gabrielite schools—Montfort, St. Gabriel’s, and Assumption English School—the mind naturally wanders to weekend campfires, pioneering structures tied off with precise lashings, and proud generations of boys wearing shoulder flashes emblazoned with their troop colors. Yet the scouting movement that the Gabrielite Brothers inherited after the devastation of the Second World War was no mere hobby. It was an auxiliary force forged in conflict, tested by fire, and built on high-stakes civic duty long before it became a cornerstone of character education in these schools. Before Brother Noel (St. Gabriel’s and Montfort School) and Yahya Aljaru (Assumption English School) and a generation of legendary Gabrielite educators transformed local troops into engines of youth leadership, the scouting movement had to prove its mettle in the crucible of early Singapore history. Lord Bad...