• Reference
    Z1387/43
  • Title
    Old Bedfordian - The Register and Year book of former pupils of Bedford School.
  • Date free text
    Aug 1944
  • Production date
    From: 1944 To: 1944
  • Scope and Content
    Old Bedfordians’ Club Year Book. 43rd Edition. Printed by F R Hockliffe, 86 & 88 High Street Bedford. Includes photograph of N P Symonds; Officers of the Club; District Vice Presidents; Rules; Past Presidents, Vice Presidents and Officers of the club; Club Colours; AGM & accounts 1942-3; OB week 1944; letter from Captain C E B Stevens; OB Masonic Lodge; OB news; Lieutenant Colonel H R B Foote; OB war news; news from prisoners of war; siege of Malta; reports from District Vice Presidents; J Whitelaw – 40 years a physical training instructor; the gymnasium 1876 – 1944; gymnastic records; Bedford House, Holborn Boys Club; the Short-term School; retirement of Mr F A S Sewell; Heads of Bedford School 1941 – 1944; cricket, football and rowing records; births, marriages; In Memoriam with obituaries including Cecil John Lyons Allanson, Harold Alfred Cecil Blacker, Douglas Christopherson, Herbert Maurice Leonard Douglas, Ralph Radclyffe Hall, Ernest Hockliffe, Robert Jarvis, William Herbert Broughton Twamley, William Cherry, Eva Anchoretta Kirkman, Madeleine Seys Phillips, Samuel Lawrence Rogers, Noel Parry Symonds, list of O.B’s mentioned in Despatches, Missing in action, wounded, prisoners of war and killed in action, obituaries including John Lancelot Birbeck, Joseph Sydney Blincow, Jeffrey Bryan, Howard Frizelle Burton, Mansfield Richard Caldwell, Alec Ernest Cook, Edmund John Dalgety, Cyril Dampier Plamer, Nicholas Edgar Innes Pocock, John Theodore Robinson, Tristan Edward Salazar, Patrick Robert Dupre Shaw, Ronald Peter Sinclair; list of O.B’s in the Services, Home Guard, Royal Observer Corps and Civil Defence Services.
  • Level of description
    item