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- The Silver Beaver Award is one of three Nationally awarded distinguished service awards. Along with the Silver Buffalo and Silver Antelope awards, which recognize service to youth on a national and regional level, the Silver Beaver award recognizes service on a council wide basis. The first award for "outstanding and distinguished service to boyhood" was the Silver Buffalo, approved in 1925 and first awarded in 1926. The first two awards were presented to the Founder of Scouting, Lord Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, and to the Unknown Scout of England who introduced Scouting to William D. Boyce in that famous London fog. The Silver Beaver was the next distinguished service award created for recognition at the local council level. It was first awarded in 1931. The Silver Antelope, for service on a regional basis, was not awarded until 1943. The Silver Beaver award is the highest award which can be presented by the National Court of Honor through the recommendation of a local council.
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