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7.1 A Scout's duty is to help others: the community benefits, also ...

Field postcard (free postage) with three line cachet in German "Pfadfinderabteilung der I
Kaiserlichen Kommandantur I Antwerpen ", Scout Unit ofthe Imperial Command, Antwerp.

Boy Scouts volunteered for the German army during the First
World War. 57 Scouts served in Brussels in occupied Belgium
from 1914, increasing to 130 Boy Scouts from 1917 to 1918.

Field postcard (free postage) with label ofthe German Boy Scout Association,
sent by a Boy Scout in the Scout Unit of the German Command in Brussels.

Preferred qualifications for the Boy Scouts included: 15 years or older,
well built, healthy, higher than 1.5 0 m, knowledge of the French
language and office work, typing, shorthand and beautiful handwriting.