Can anyone confirm that Shane was a Scout. I have read that he was introduced as and invited to talk to a Scouts (Venture group_) as an ex scout but cannot relocate the piece
Shane Acton an ex Cambridge Grammar school, Royal Marine and Scout circumnavigated the globe in an 18’ boat, the smallest to do so at that time. He sailed from Cambridge in 1972, returning in 1980.
Cambridge District Scout Archive 