Harrow County School for Boys

Entry Year 1934

(partial list - registers and lists for 1934 have not yet been found.  These are names compiled from various sources, mostly war records compiled by Mr. Parkinson and printed in The Gaytonian.  The list has been reviewed by Monty Maizels, who has indicated which boys were in 2A, and added some additional names and notes.  Monty's notes are in bold blue letters.)

Anderson, M R  (VI Science in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School)
Barber, C J - 2A - 5A in 1938/39  (Clive Barber was killed in the Second World War)
Barrett, C  - 2A - 5A in 1938/39  Charlie
Bentley, D R   5A in 1938/39
Bignell, L W
Blundell, R N  - 2A - 5A in 1938/39  Richard? (VI Arts in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School)
Bolwell, P F  5A in 1938/39
Bradford, P R C  - 2A -  Peter?
Bradley, P J  - 2A - 5A in 1938/39   Philip?  (Phil Bradley became headmaster of a large comprehensive school in Cambridge, and retired in 1983.)
Brown, J R E  5A in 1938/39
Cane, B  (Bernard Cane was killed in the Second World War)
Carlson, D G - 2A -   5A in 1938/39
Carter, J N   - 2A -  5A in 1938/39
Chambers, G L
Cooke, E D  (E. David Cooke, 1934-38.)
Crampton, R A V  5A in 1938/39 
Cruickshank, A J
Curtis A R- 2A - 5A in 1938/39  I thought it was Alan but I’m not sure.  (VI Arts in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School. Curtis was School Captain 1941-42.  He won a Drapers Company Scholarship in Mathematics to Queen Mary College, London, in 1941-42.)
Doman, G D C (had a brother, W H J Doman, two years older?)
Drane, P (Peter Drane, DFC, bomber pilot. He was killed in the Second World War on January 15th, 1945 on his 67th raid, and is buried in Pinner Road cemetery.)
Emms, R H E
Empson, J D  (VI Science in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School.  He gained his B.Sc.(Agric) at Reading University in 1947, and was awarded a Scholarship by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries for Post-Graduate work at Lincoln College, Oxford. An agricultural Economist.)
Faram, G O  5A in 1938/39   (Geoffrey Faram, an accountant articled to the Borough Treasurer of Wembley, was a Signal Instructor in the Royal Corps of Signals. He was killed in the Second World War)  Hazy as to whether Faram was in my class ... so probably not. I gave it the benefit of the doubt at first.  Maybe .....
Finch, W J
Foster, A H  5A in 1938/39
Godfrey, P L    - 2A -  (VI Science in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School.  Peter Godfrey was killed in the Second World War)
Good J
Green, H C  (Honorary Auditor of the Old Gaytonians Association for a period after the war.  An Accountant, he worked for Arthur Young, McClelland & Co.)
Greenall, G   - 2A -  5A in 1938/39   (VI Arts in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School)
Gregory, M W   - 2A -  (Maurice Gregory was killed in the Second World War)
Griss, D E - 2A - Dennis  (VI Commerce in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School)
Grundy, H V
Harding, L D
Harvey, D W
Herman, P J R    - 2A - 5A in 1938/39   (1933-38. Jack Herman was General Secretary of the Old Gaytonians Association from 1948.  He retired as Registrar of St. Martin's School of Arts in 1983.))
Hine, J E  - 2A - 5A in 1938/39  John, known as “Piggy”
Hodson, H E W   - 2A - 5A in 1938/39   (Member of winning Preston House 100 yards relay team, Spoert Day, 1938.  VI Arts in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School)
Holland, R W  5A in 1938/39
Hughes, J
Husband, E W
Isbell, R L
Isbister, W L T    - 2A -  5A in 1938/39
Jones, J E E
Joyner, L P (Gained Ph.D. in 1950 for research into and thesis on a branch of supersonics.)
Kemp, D G
Lawson, M S
Lockwood, P
Long, D P R
Ludgate, P J
Maizels, M    - 2A - 5A in 1938/39   (Monty Maizels lives in Australia)
Mansell, R N
Mead, J P    - 2A - 5A in 1938/39   (John — very academic, top of the class.) Sat behind me
Miller, P D  5A in 1938/39
Mullens, H W    - 2A -  
Munns, S G
Munt, G W
Palmer, E C
Parham, F J
Parsons, N  5A in 1938/39
Peed, C E
Perks, E T  (Edmund Thomas Perks was prominent as an athlete, representing the School in Inter-School sports.  Member of winning Preston House 100 yards relay team, Spoert Day, 1938. He joined the Royal Navy and was lost when the cruiser Charybdis was sunk in October 1943.)
Peyman, F I T    - 2A -  5A in 1938/39
Pople, K S F
Potter, L N  (VI Commerce in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School)
Pratt, R H
Prosser, J R  5A in 1938/39
Purton, R F
Rains, J E
Robertson, A W S  (VI Commerce in 1939/40, attending at Harrow School. Alan Weir Struan Robertson was killed in the Second World War. A founder member of the School's ATC, Flight Sergeant Robertson was a radio navigator with the Pathfinder Group of Bomber Command.  He failed to return from a raid over Germany on March 23rd, 1944.)
Robertson, G    - 2A - 5A in 1938/39  Gordon?
Roper, P D W
Taylor, R I
Smith, C S  - 2A - Cecil Spencer
Smith, D F - 2A -  Derek Francis?
Smith D K - 2A -
Steel, M S
Stubbings, P R
Tanter, P W
Vines, E S
Waite  - 2A -
Williams, J J
Woodstock, F W  5A in 1938/39

 

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