Harrow County School for Boys

Entry Year 1937

(This list is based on a list of members of Form IV that was printed in The Gaytonian in December 1939.  Other sources include a list of members of Form V who passed the General School Examination that was printed in The Gaytonian in July 1942, with the deduced forms added, and various lists of those serving in the Forces.)

Form IVa 1939 (attending Harrow School in the Autumn 1939 term)

Bennet, G C - VA 
Bishop, R K - VA 
Bowles, J A
Bromwich, B R M - VA   (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Browne, A D  (Alan David Browne was in Form IVA 1939-40.   Poem published in July 1940 Gaytonian.  Serving in the Forces, November 1943.  The youngest serving officer in the Royal Navy in 1944.  Worked as a surveyor and then joined a company founded by fellow Old Gaytonian Graham McNair designing childrens playground equipment.  Captain of the Old Gaytonians Rugby Club 1950-56.  Alan Browne died on January 17th 2001, aged 75.)
Burton, E J
Campbell, P W G - VA  
Densham, P R - VA (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.  Emigrated to Orelia, Western Australia. He had his copies of Gaytonian magazine for 1937-41 bound. This volume is now in the possession of the editor of this website, Jeff Maynard)
Giles, A L
Glover, S
Gurney, P V
Hall, R W - VA   (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Harris, P H
Hillan, J - VA 
Kemp, K I R - VA  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Long, J M
MacKay, K H - VA (Prefect 1942-43.  School Captain 1943-44.  Serving in the Forces, July 1945)
McPherson, J D
McPherson, J W - VA 
Miles, G G
Mills, P H
Milton, D T W - VA 
Newbigging or Newbiggen, R A  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Ord, D
Ottway, A F P - VA (Form IVA 1939-40.  Poem published in March 1940 Gaytonian.  Prefect 1942-43.  Vice-Captain 1943-44.  Serving in the Forces, July 1945)
Rushton, P  (Achieved First Class Instructor and Bar to Medallion, Life Saving Awards, July 1943.)
Stiles, B - VA (Form IVA 1939-40.  Poem published in March 1940 Gaytonian.  Hon. Sec. School Rugby 1942-43.  Serving in the Forces, July 1945)
Taylor, B J - VA 
Tracey, D W - VA 
Turpin, R - VA   (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Wilkins, J N - VA  (Form IVA 1939-40.   Poem published in July 1940 Gaytonian.)
Wolf, C H
Wright, D E - VA 

Form IVb 1939  (attending the Lower School of John Lyon in Autumn 1939)

Adams, S A - VB 
Anderson, D A P - VB 
Baker, E R - VB 
Bishop, A C L  (Serving in the Forces, July 1945.  Elected to the Harrow Urban District Council  for West Harrow at the elections in April 1950.  He was the youngest member ever to have been elected to the Council.)
Blackwell, M A - VB 
Dale, A D  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
English, J H
Gardner, R F - VB 
Grattan, D H - VB 
Harman, K
Hartles, R J  (1937-44.  Mr. R. J. Hartles joined the School staff in 1947 to teach Physics.)
Hearne, T J  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Lane, P J - VB   (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Lehman, H J
Martin, R W
McKee, D H - VC 
Meakes, A J - VB (Albert Meakes, at Harrow County 1937-41, was killed in the Second World War)
Moodie, G R - VB  (Gordon Moodie was A.S.M. of the 4th Hrrow Scouts Merrymen.  He left in 1943 for Universitty College Hospital.  He passed his final examination for M.B. B.S. with honours in pharmacology, and of the Conjoint Board for his L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S. in 1948)
Peachey, E G
Pitt, G R
Rumble, T B  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Seal, E E
Taylor, W P - VB 
Tomalin, P F
Walker, R H
Wardle, T P
Weaver, F J - VB 
Webster, A F - VB (Serving in the Forces, July 1945)

Form IVc 1939, (attending the Lower School fo John Lyon in Autumn 1939)

Allen, J D
Bell, N R
Birks, J A
Bradley, D M
Brooks, L G  (Leonard Brooks left school in August 1940 to work for a firm of insurance brokers.  He volunteered for the Navy when he was 17 and after passing the qualifying exams for signalman was posted to Malta in 1943.  He was posted to the cruiser H.M.S. Spartan, which was bombed and sunk by enemy aircraft in the landing at Anzio.  He was missing and later presumed killed.)
Cottrell, D W
Cox, C A - VC 
Daniels, J T - VC   (John Daniels achieved First Class Instructor and Second Bar to Medallion, Life Saving Awards 1942.  A.S.M. in 4th Harrow Pioneers (Air Scouts).  He took a University short course at Edinburgh in 1943.  Serving in the Forces, May 1944.)
Darby, D D
Dooley, P L - VC 
Durham, D
Fenning, J C
Finch, R W  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Fletcher, M B
Ford, D G
Foster, A J
Hurren, W J - VC 
Knight, R G - VC   (Serving in the Forces, May 1944.)
Lewis, W G
Matteson, D E - VC 
Moss, V R
Pitman, R J - VC 
Price, D J - VC 
Prickett, J Ll
Roper, J - VC 
Stanford, P G - VC  (Serving in the Forces, May 1944.  In 1949 he was accepted for the Methodist Ministry and was going to a Theological College in preparation.)
Tennant, A L
Tucker, R E
Yates, J  (Joe)

Form Upper IV (attending at Harrow County School in Autumn, 1939)

Alford, P
Aumonier, W M
Brace, J R
Coleman, V W
Constable, W H
Dickenson, K H
Dietz, P J - VD 
Dobb V (Victor Dobb emigrated to Canada. Click here to read his reminiscences.)
Edwards, D G L - VC 
Eungblutt, R C
Eustace, A F - VD 
Grave, R J
Hamilton, K S
Hook, J J
Knowles, W C
Lewis, L J - VD 
McKee, D
Millgate, B A
Newman, A H
Pococke, S E - VD 
Salmon, G S
Smith, R D - VC   (Prefect 1942-43. Northwick House Captain 1942-43.)
Taylor, P F
Till, P H
Webb, J E
Webb, N R

Form IVd 1939 (attending at Harrow County School in Autumn, 1939)

Bareham, F R or R F - VD (Secretary of Music Society 1942-43)
Barker, R R
Booth, S
Burningham, A C  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Coles, D A - VD 
Davies, I L
Denly, J E
Dowling, L S  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Good, R  (Richard Good studied Quantity Surveying at the Air Ministry from 1942-44, but was conscripted as a Bevan Boy in 1944, and worked as a coal miner in Durham.  After the war he continued to train as a quantity surveyor, but in 1949 he enrolled at the National College of Horology in London, and was awarded an Honours Diploma in 1951.  He worked for various companies and then set up his own, designing clocks.  In 1976 he became a Curator of Horology at the British Museum.  Richard Good, FSA, FRHI, Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers,  published six books about clocks, watches, horology and clockmakers, and many magazine articles.  He died on December 29th, 2003.)
Green, K A
Guy, C C H (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Hamilton, D J  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Harrison, J W
Hart D C
Horn, F C  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Jury, S N
Maynard, D
McFarlane, R J  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Morris, G - VD 
Moxley, J P
Owsley, J - VD   (Jack Owsley was in the Rugby 1st XV 1942-43 and 1943-44.  Captain of Rugby 1943-44.  Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Parry, H W
Phillips, R I  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Preston, E A - VD  ("Gus"}
Ross, I P
Shilling, W A  (Serving in the Forces, February 1945.)
Smith, D G  (Desmond Smith was Sub. Lieut. RNVR, December 1943-January 1947.  He is a ham radio operator, call signs G1DES and G0JCF.)
Sorrell, M E - VD  (Prefect 1942-43.  Serving in the Forces, May 1944.)
Thornton, E H - VD (Prefect 1942-43.  In the Rugby 1st XV 1942-43 and 1943-44.  Vice-Captain of Rugby 1943-44.  Joint School Captain 1944-45)
Tanter, A  (Serving in the Forces, May 1944.)
Tautz, J H
Youens, P D  ("Old Youens")

Others in Form V in 1942:

Barnett, P T A - VC 
Blades, J A - VC 
Burgess, F W - VB 
Chorlton, F - VB   (Frank Chorlton went on to teach in the Maths Department of Imperial College, London, where Brian Hester saw him in 1947)
Ellerby, J - VC 
Fox, F H R - VA 
Grattan, A P - VD 
Hopkins, E K - VC 
King, I F - VC 
Little, P R - VB 
McFarlane, R J - VD 
Middleton, J W - VA 
Rackham, K P - VB 
Smith, G H - VA (Scholarship in Science to University College, London, 1944-45)
Smyth, R J G - VA 
Watson, R J - VC   (Bob Watson.  In Senior Scouts, 4th Harrow.  Left for the F.A.A., 1943)
Watson, W S - VD 
Wholley, J P - VC 

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