• Reference
    Z1387/44
  • Title
    Old Bedfordian - The Register and Year book of former pupils of Bedford School.
  • Date free text
    Dec 1945
  • Production date
    From: 1945 To: 1945
  • Scope and Content
    Old Bedfordians’ Club Year Book. 44th Edition. Printed by F R Hockliffe, 86 & 88 High Street Bedford. Includes photograph of Sir Edward Crowe; of the Club; District Vice Presidents; Rules; Past Presidents, Vice Presidents and Officers of the club 1891 - 1945; Club Colours; O.B. football & cricket clubs; Letter from Captain C E B Stevens; OB Masonic Lodge; OB Golfing Society; OB week 1945; AGM & Accounts 1944 – 1945; OB news; OB Honours; mentioned in Despatches; wounded, missing & prisoners of war; OB War news; Malayan fracas; Escape over the Monte Rossa; How I escaped from Italy; diary of an OB prisoner in Singapore; J V Kilby, a Bedfordian in Belsen; letter from Captain P A Mayer in France about German soldiers; Life on the Cocos Keeling Islands by G V T Matthews; reports from the District Vice Presidents; careers in the United Africa Company Limited; P Woodland esq; Bedford House, Holborn Boy’s Club; the workshops 1976 – 1945; plan of the school buildings; the fire at Bedford School; Victoria College, Jersey; War Time Guests; winners of House Events 1944-1945; cricket, football and rowing records; Head Masters at Bedford School; Heads of Bedford School 1815 – 1946; births; marriages; In Memoriam, including obituaries of Walter Pipon Braithwaite (photograph), Herbert Plugh, Edward Harry martin, Roland Tennyson Peel, Francis James Popham, Leslie Ruthven Pym, rev Thomas Wentworth, Robert John Thorpe Ozanne; Roll of Honour, including obituaries for Charles Stuart Burnett, James Edward Vincent Douglas, John Pekenham Hamilton, Philip Henry (Peter) Lawless, Lawrence Barry Sharman, Launcelot Vincent Stoneham Sherwood, Hugh Martin Stephens.
  • Level of description
    item