Nine Scouts were remembered last month at a special ceremony during Nunhead Cemetery’s annual open day.
Among those who attended was 88-year-old Len Filmer, who laid flowers in the Anglican Chapel ruins where a replica plaque marks the youngsters’ death in the Leysdown Tragedy.
Mr Filmer’s grandfather, John, was on board the ex-naval cutter, which was taking 23 Scouts of the 2nd Walworth Troop and Scoutmaster S.J. Marsh to a camp at Leysdown on August 14, 1912. But the boat capsized and nine boys drowned.
Two of John Filmer’s 11 children — Noel, 14, and Thomson, 12 — perished.
Mr Filmer, of Newman Court, Bromley, was born shortly after his uncles drowned.
A monument was erected in the cemetery but in the 1960s and 70s it was destroyed and a plaque with the dead Scouts’ names disappeared.
In 1997, a scrap dealer found it and returned it to the Scouts Association.
On Sunday, the replica found a new home in the cemetery.
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