Harrow County School for Boys

Entry Year 1926

(Form lists for new boys entering forms I and II in 1926 were printed in The Gaytonian.  Those who stayed on in the Sixth Form were listed as Form VI 1931-32 in the "Book of Commemoration", 1932.  Also, names from lists of those who served in the forces in the Second World War, and those mentioned in The Gaytonian.  Those without a Form I or Form II by their name may not have been new in 1926, and may have started in Form I in 1925.)

Allen, F - Form I  (Frank Raine-Allen became Civil Defence Officer for Middlesex.  He died in October 2006 in Guildford, aged 92)
Anthony, A - Form IIb (1926-33.  Prefect 1931-32. Sambrooke Scholarship in Science to Kings College, London, 1933.  Second Class Honours in Mathematics, 1936.  Working for the Super-Marine Aircraft Company at Southampton in 1937.)
Antoine, J - Form IIb   (Prefect 1931-32. Pilot Officer Joseph Antoine volunteered for service with the RAF in 1940. In May 1942 he began operational flights as a navigator. On August 25th 1942 he was killed while returning from his twenty-second operational flight.)) 
Audus, I P - Form I
Aylett, A W (1926-33.  Lieutenant Arthur Aylett, The Buffs, was an active Old Gaytonian.  He was a member of the Old Gaytonians Dramatic Club.  He joined the Territorial Army and was called to the Colours at the outbreak of war.  After a varied military career, he was killed in action near Ravenna, Italy, on April 14th, 1945.)
Aylett, F - Form I
Baldwin, H D - Form I
Barnes, E R  (1929-32)
Beckman, R H - Form IIc (Winner of "Penney" Trophy, 1931, - Richard Beckman was killed in the Second World War)
Bennett, A P (1926-31)
Blunt, G F H - Form IIb   (1926-30)
Boakes, S L
Bracher, K  - Form I (1926-31) 
Bridges, P - Form IIb 
Byard, G A - Form IIb 
Cartledge, T M   - Form IIb (1926-32.  Prefect 1931-32)
Champion, C H  (Prefect 1931-32)
Citrine, N A  - Form I (1926-29.  Norman Citrine was the son of the Right Honourable Sir Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, 1926-46.  Sir Walter Citrine was created Baron Citrine of Wembley in 1946.  In 1962 Norman Citrine was living in Brixham.)
Collas, F - Form IIb (1926-32)
Cowley, T R  - Form IIb (1926-32)
Coxhead, F H  - Form IIb (1926-30)
Craggs, J D  (Prefect 1931-32)
Crookall, E G - Form IIc 
Davenport, G - Form I  (In Form IVB 1929-30)
Davey, J S   - Form I (1926-31)
Davis, A E  - Form I (1926-31.  Assistant Valuer in the Government Valuation Office in 1937.)
Davis, J P
Dean, M - Form IIb.  (Form IIIa in 1927-28.  Poem published in Gaytonian, January 1928.) 
Dempster, J E  - Form IIc (1926-29)
Dimmock, H - Form IIb 
Dodd, F J - Form IIc 
Downing, H F - Form IIb 
Dunbar, F F
Evans, E - Form I
Faulkner, P  (In Canada from 1929, back in Harrow in 1932.)
Flack, A W (1926-29.   At S. Otago, New Zealand in 1932.  In New Zealand in 1934.  In Australia, originally in farming, and then a "Chilling" factory in New Zealand, freezing mutton for export in 1936.)
in New Zealand in 1934)
Fox, L  (1926-28.  Member of OG Football Club in 1929.)
Gannicott, H W - Form IIc 
Gibson, A G  (1926-28)
Gill, A T - Form IIb (1926-32.  B.Sc. (Lond.) - At Bede College, Durham, in 1935 to read Post Graduate course in Education for the Teacher's Diploma.))  
Gordon, E J - Form IIc 
Gough, W J - Form IIc 
Graves, C H - Form IIc 
Green, S L  (1926-32.  In Form IVB in 1929-30. Served for 41 years on the civilian staff of the Metropolitan Police Force.  Served as Reception Officer - the "Official Face of the Yard.". Retired in 1975.  Chairman of the Old Gaytonians Association Council in the mid-1970s.)
Grosch, D J - Form IIc 
Harris, R V  - Form IIb (1926-31)
Helbrough, L  - Form I 
Hemmings, A W - Form I 
Hiney, G - Form IIc 
Holden, J  - Form IIb (1926-31)
Holland, J - Form IIc 
Home, J G   - Form IIc (1926-31)
How, W E
Howarth, F J
Hunt, A - Form I 
Huxtable, G - Form IIc 
Innes Steel, A (1926-30.  Flight Sergeant Engineer in the RAF. Missing in raid over Mainz, August 1942. Presumed killed.))
Jackson, D L  - Form IIb (1926-31)
Jeffery, A W D - Form I 
Jenkins, T P N  (1926-32.  Holder of the "May Young" Scholarship.  Studying medicine in 1935 at University College Hospital)  
Johnson, R E  (Librarian 1931-32, Prefect 1931-32)
Kerr, D - Form IIb 
Kilroy, W E
Lawrance, S G  - Form I 
Lawson, P N - Form IIb 
Le Blond, G A  - Form I
Lee, C R  (Clifford "Dimple" Lee was School Vice-Captain in 1934.  He died in 1990.)
Lees, J P - Form IIa  (1926-27.  Killed in the war)
Lennox, D H - Form I 
Lester, E J   - Form IIc (1926-32.  LL.B. from Kings College, London, 1938.  Joined RAF in August 1939.  E. J. Lester, Pilot Officer, RAF was killed in a flying accident in August 1940.)
Lyon, E E   - Form IIc (1926-31)
Marshall, K L  - Form IIb (Kenneth Lawrence Marshall.  On the administrative staff of Imperial Airways in February 1936)
Masters, H R - Form I 
May, L J   - Form I (1926-30)
Milsom, L G
Miller, F - Form IIc 
Minns, B J  - Form IIb (1926-32)
Montague, H A  - Form IIb  (Prefect 1931-32)
Moon, C B
Montague, H A (1926-32)
Morton, D W   - Form IIc (1926-29)
Mulford, W E   - Form IIc (Colours for Rugby, Cricket and Athletics. Games Captain 1931-32, Prefect 1931-32, Squadron Leader William Mulford, RAF, joined the RAF before 1937. He did both operational and instructional work and was a night bomber pilot. He was missing and then presumed dead on June 11th-12th, 1943.)
Munk, L R  (1926-29.  Captain Lionel Munk, known as the "Maid Line" cruiser man at Thames Ditton, was Guest of Honour at the Old Gaytonians Tennis Club 40th Anniversary Dinner on May 4th 1962 at the Rest Hotel, Kenton.  He was National Chairman of the Inland Waterways Association from 1958-70.  He died in June, 1988.  His son Jeremy Munk was elected President of the British Marine Industries Federation in January 2001.)
Nelson, E - Form IIb 
Newell, P F  - Form IIb (1926-32)
Nicoll, W I
Paine, R P
Patterson, S R  - Form IIb (1926-31)
Peche, J   - Form I (1926-30)
Perry, B - Form I 
Pitcher, J A
Potts, F B  - Form I
Potts, R J   - Form IIc (1926-31.  Richard John Potts, joined the RAFVR in August 1938 as a Sergeant Pilot, and was called up for active service in May, 1940.  Commissioned as a Pilot Officer, he joined Bomber Command.  On a return journey from Germany, on August 30th, 1941, about two miles off the North East coast, he lost his life by drowning.)
Purse, J W
Ransom, C.  (1926-32.  B.Sc.(Econ).  Appointed Assistant Master at the Bembrose school, Derby, 1936.)
Ransom, J S - Form I 
Regan, J P K   - Form I (1926-31)
Riddell, P J D - Form I 
Robinson, A T - Form IIb 
Robinson, D J  (Prefect 1931-32)
Rooke, J   - Form IIc (1926-30)
Rowe, R D
Sadgrove, L H - Form IIc 
Sayer, J J   - Form IIc (1926-32.  B.Sc (Engineering), 1935.  John Sayer died on Friday, February 13th, 1942, after an illness.  His brothers Martin and Robert also went to Harrow County.)
Sewell, L E - Form IIc 
Shaw, D - Form I 
Short, N F
Skoyles, J E
Slade, A - Form IIc 
Slinger, J H  - Form IIb  (1926-31)
Smith, E A G - Form IIc 
Smith, J H  - Form IIb  (Poem published in February 1929 Gaytonian)
Smith, M F - Form IIb  (1926-31)
Spiers, J C   - Form IIc (John Colquhoun Spiers was known as 'Jack'.  Entry 1926.  Senior Sports Champion, 1931.  Rugby Captain 1932.  Member of 4th Harrow Rover Crew.  Joined the Army with the onset of war and served until 1946.   Jack Spiers died in 2001.)
Standish, E W  - Form IIb (1926-31)
Steel, A - Form IIb 
Stewart, K A  - Form IIa  (Kenrick Alan Stewart entered RAF cadet college in 1931.  He was commissioned Pilot Officer in 1933.  He was killed at RAF Station, Aboukir, Egypt, on 13th July, 1936, as a result of a crash while testing an aeroplane.)
Street, P A R  - Form IIb  (1926-33.  Prefect 1931-32.  Pass Special in zoology, London University 1936.  In 1938 he was a research scholar under Professor Haldane and passed his M.Sc examination. Philip Arthur Richard Street returned as a master, after teacher training, in 1939.  Form Master of 2A in 1940.  He did some war service at a government Research post from 1942 returned to HCS and then left in 1945 to take up a position at Kingsbury County School.)
Stuff, D E  - Form IIc (1926-30)
Thomson, A G  (1926-29.  Graduated from Edinburgh University in Engineering)
Thompson, G M
Thompson, R A B - Form I 
Thorne, R M  - Form IIc (1926-31)
Todd, M H  - Form IIb  (1926-32.  Emigrated to Knysna, Cape Colony, South Africa)
Tomblin, S J - Form IIc 
Trask, F C  - Form IIb (1926-30)
Tuckey, D H (1926-30)
Tyrrell, S A  - Form IIc (1926-30.  Reported "Missing" in 1942)
Vincent, A L - Form IIb 
Voller, E J  - Form IIc (1926-29)
Warner, D H  (Douglas Warner was killed in the Second World War)
Warner, V G  - Form IIc (1926-41)
Whiteside, J J  (In Form Va in 1929-30. School Vice-Captain 1931-32, Scholarship in Economics to the London School of Economics, 1932, in the audit department of the War Office in Edinburgh, 1932.)
Wilde, E H
Wills, W T (1926-28)
Wilson, S R - Form IIc 
Wiltshire, W A
Wride, F R - Form IIc 
York, A W - Form I
Young, E W  - Form IIb  (School Captain 1931-32.  Completed degree course at Cambridge.  Temporary post teaching at Aldenham School in Winter 1936.  Teaching at Ilminster Grammar School in 1937.  Headmaster of Royston Secondary School from 1954-61.  Author of Geographical Text Books.)

 

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