Harrow County School for Boys

Entry Year 1933

(partial list - registers and lists for 1933 have not yet been found.  These are names from lists of those serving in the forces in the Second World War, compiled by Mr. Parkinson and printed in The Gaytonian.  Nineteen of them lost their lives.) 

Ainslie, I M  (Lieutenant Ian (John) Macpherson Ainslie, RNVR, was killed in the Second World War)
Alcock, D C R
Anson, P J
Baker, M A W
Bentley, D R  (Donald Bentley, an active Scout and Rover Scout was awarded rugby colours in 1938.  In 1941 he volunteered for the Fleet Air Arm and was commissioned as a pilot in 1942. Sub-Lieutenant Bentley died on active service in June 1943.)
Breakey, D K
Broadbent, W
Brown, J R E
Burgess, J A
Butcher, N R G
Butson, J M  (Flying Officer John Moreton Butson volunteered for the RAF in December, 1940.  A pilot and flying instructor, he became ajet-plane pilot, and was killed when two jet-planes collided on January 15th, 1946)
Butson, P C
Canning, A G
Cheverton, D
Chiswell, J R
Collinson, B J  (Bernard Collinson joined the Coldstream Guards and specialised in wireless and signals.  he was killed in action in Italy, June 1944.)
Colston, B P
Cooper, T D
Cordingley, N
Craft, J W
Croxson, D J
Deller, C L
Dyball, D A  (Pilot Officer Douglas Dyball enlisted in the RAF in 1942. He was killed returning from a raid over Essen in July, 1943.)
Francis, D J
Fraser, A S
French, G E
Goldsack, R L  (Robert Leslie Goldsack played Rugby for the 1st XV.  He joined the London Scottish Regiment (TA) in 1939, and volunteered for the Glider Pilot  Regiment in 1943.  In September 1944 he took part in "Operation Market Garden", the airborne assault at Arnhem.  He worked for the Shell International Petroleum Company after the war, with foreign postings in China, Trinidad, The Phillipines, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan.  Bob Goldsack died on July 26th 2005, aged 84.)
Goodes, H G
Gould, K W
Greenwood, J N
Grewcock, J W B
Hanscomb, N J
Hanson, T J F
Harding, L D  (Lionel Dennis Harding, a fighter pilot, was killed in November, 1943)
Harrington, P T W
Hodson, J B
Holland, R W
Holmes, F N
Irving, C B  (Charles Bryan Irving, Officer Cadet, RAF, was killed on active service in August 1940. His elder brother, Pilot Officer Desmond Irving, RAFVR, who was at Harrow County 1932-35, was killed in action in June, 1941. Both brothers were members of the 4th Harrow Scouts.)
Jackson, C  (Cyril Jackson was killed in the Second World War)
Janes, J H
Jeffs, F D
Jones, R D
Juniper, K S  (Flying Officer Kenneth Juniper, RAFVR volunteered for the RAF in October 1940.  He was a navigator in Bomber Command and was killed in an air raid over Turin in July, 1943.)
Lane, B H J
Lovegrove, T A
McGillivray, D A A
Minns, D F  (Flying Officer Douglas Minns was killed in the Second World War)
Misseldine, J E
Moodie, P D S  (Peter Moodie had colours for Rugby, Athletics and Tennis.  He died in Canada in 1943, where he was completing his training as an RAF pilot)
Morris, P A
Morrison, M K
Newman, J  (Captain John Newman joined the Westminster Dragoons in April, 1939, and obtained his commission in the Royal Tank Regiment in 1940.  He was wounded at El Alamein and promoted Captain in January 1943.  He was seriously injured on September 20th, 1944, and died five days later.)
Newman, P  (Lieutenant Peter Newman, Royal Artillery, was the twin brother of John, above. He was killed in the war.)
Nicolle, J S
Oldham, D G
Parkins, C J
Peaty, A H
Powell, E V
Prosser, J R
Reachill, D J
Robertson, J M
Rooke, B E  (Brian Edwin Rooke, Sergeant Pilot, RAFVR was at Harrow County 1933-37.  He started a career as a journalist, and wrote articles for The Gaytonian under the pen-name 'Stylus'.  He was killed in June, 1942.)
Rubython, E G
Runacres, F S
Salmon, R O S
Silverman, A L  (Alexis Louis Silverman was outstanding in school for his musical ability. He joined the RAF and obtained a commission. He was killed in April, 1944, in a raid on the marshalling yards at Aulnoye, France.)
Smith, R N
Stewart, P H
Stone, G W  (Pilot Officer Geoffrey Stone, RAFVR. Colours for Cricket, Rugby and Tennis.  School Tennis champion 1939. A prefect.  Killed on active service December 1942. Buried at Pinner Road Cemetery, Pinner.)
Stubbing, G A W
Tew, J B F
Thomas, F D  (Flying Officer Frederick Thomas, RAFVR, was awarded colours and cap for cricket and colours for rugby.   He volunteered soon after the outbreak of war, and was killed in December 1943.)
Travis, G C
Trobe, E N
Turner, D N
Tye, J E
Villette, B V N
Walker, D S
Walker, V
Webb, L
Webb, R E
Weston, R O
Williams, S G P
Williams, W
Wiltshear, G M  (Geoffrey Maurice Wiltshear joined the RAF in August, 1939, was a Pilot Officer. He became a prisoner of war in December 1940 after parachuting out of his airoplane during a raid over enemy territory)
Witherden, W H  (Walter Harry Witherden joined the RAF in July 1942. He was commissioned as Navigator. In December 1944 he left on a raid on Politz oil fields near Stettin, did not return, and was presumed killed.)
Woodstock, F W

 

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