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ChrisMadden published 'World's oldest Scout' and one of the last Dunkirk survivors dies...

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The "world's longest-serving Scout" who was one of the last surviving "beach masters" from the Dunkirk evacuation has died.Vic Viner, who joined 1st Dorking Scouts aged 8 in 1925 and served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, died aged 99 last Thursday.During his nine decades with the Scouting movement, Mr Viner had met the organisation's founder Lord Robert Baden Powell – who correctly earmarked him as a future district commissioner – when he attended...

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