OTC and JTC at Oakham School – 1910

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OAKHAM SCHOOL
OFFICER TRAINING CORPS
&
JUNIOR TRAINING CORPS
1910-1948
Researched, written, and produced by
Brian Needham, MBE, MA (Oxon)
[Hon. School Historian]
Oakham School Officers Training Corps & Junior Training Corps
The Oakham School Officer Training Corps commenced its existence in 1910 and so celebrated its
centenary, having been changed into the Junior Training Corps in 1940 and the Combined Cadet
Corps in 1948, in 2010.
For that occasion a pamphlet entitled Oakham School CCF – The First 100 Years was produced by
Captain (RMR) R.M. Davies, a long-term member of staff who had been an officer in the CCF from
1959-1994 and as Second-in-Command 1972-1994. With his full permission, that pamphlet has now
been expanded so as to give a fuller picture of the activities of the unit, with the intention of the
publication being updated when necessary; this is no so large that it is published in two volumes – the
OTC & the JTC (1910-48) in one, and the CCF (1948 onwards) in the other.
These two booklets should be used in conjunction with a further booklet, Old Oakhamian Military
War Service, which records the service of those Old Oakhamians, whether past members of the OTC
/ JTC / CCF or not, from the earliest known service (that of Francis Wrightson Robinson who served
in the Second Sikh War 1848-49 and who was killed in action at the Battle of Chillianwallah on 13 th
January 1849 aged 23) to those serving today in Afghanistan.
The booklet Oakham School and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award gives full coverage of DofE
activities in that period when they were part of the CCF from 1960 to 1982. There is a further booklet
recording Scouting and Guiding at Oakham School.
Since Shooting has been a sport confined to members of the OTC / JTC / CCF, these booklets include
Oakhamian reports on that activity; such reports have been very scarce in the last decade.
As in many of the school records, full information is not available, or has not been unearthed and
collated, so any corrections or additions to this booklet would be received gratefully at
[email protected].
Although some University Officer Training Corps (UOTC) can trace their origins even earlier, the
modern OTC was founded during the Haldane Reforms in 1908 to remedy a critical shortage of
officers during the South African War (1899–1902). Initially the OTC had a senior division, in eight
universities, and a junior division, in English public schools. The formation of the Oakham School
unit in 1910, then, makes it one of the oldest units. During the First World War, the senior OTCs
became officer producing units and some 30,000 officers passed through, but after the war reverted to
their basic military training role. During the 1930s the OTCs began to increase in strength. They
peaked in 1938 during the Munich Crisis. In the Second World War they again became officer
producing units for the army. In 1948, the senior OTC divisions became part of the Territorial Army,
and women were accepted for the first time with the formation of Women's Royal Army Corps subunits. Women are now fully integrated into all sections. The junior divisions, by then renamed the
Junior Training Corps, became the Army Sections of the Combined Cadet Force. For the next twelve
years the CCF aim was to prepare students for National Service, until its abolition in 1960. Since then,
it may be said, the CCF has been searching for a role. This booklet is an attempt to discover if that
role has been found.
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The First Hundred Years
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OAKHAM SCHOOL COMBINED CADET FORCE
THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS
Captain R.M. Davies (2 o/c Contingent and o/c Army Section) and Captain R.M. Blackmore
Although the Schools’ Volunteer Rifle Corps came into being in 1860, soon after the Crimean War, it
was Haldane’s Reforms of 1907 which created the Territorial Army System that gave the greatest
stimulus to military training in schools and universities. It was seen as a means of providing a source
of partially-trained officers for the army in times of national emergency, and this was its primary role
until the end of the Second World War, being joined during that period by the Sea Cadet Corps and
the Air Training Corps.
Since its inception in 1910, The Oakham School Contingent, in line with all other units, has seen
many changes. The OTC (Officer Training Corps) gave way to the JTC (Junior Training Corps) and
this, in turn, has become the CCF (Combined Cadet Force). The sense of urgency attendant upon the
Second World War provided the organisation with its most prosperous time, and everyone was
convinced of its value. Battle Dress replaced the old style uniform with its puttees, and the scope of
training was widened to give more opportunities for post-Certificate A training. At Oakham, Signals
and Wireless sections were formed together with an Artillery Section with its 25 pounder guns.
The development of nuclear weapons and the abolition of National Service have necessitated a
reappraisal of the functions of the CCF and with this in mind the War Office (later, the Ministry of
Defence) drastically changed the training syllabuses. Certificate A (Parts 1 and 2) were replaced by
the Basic Test and the Army Proficiency Certificate in which cadets were no longer examined in the
Bren Light Machine Gun (LMG). Although the standard of Weapon Training and Drill was lowered,
more emphasis was placed on Adventurous Training, while incentive for this type of training was
provided by the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme (DofE). Other initiatives included the Joint
Services Cadet Badge which was available to Senior NCOs who reached the required standard after a
strenuous leadership course at the new establishment at Frimley Park.
When the Oakham School Contingent was formed in 1910 it was affiliated to the Royal Leicestershire
Regiment. It was represented at the review of the Officers Training Corps by HM King George V in
Windsor Great Park in 1911. In 1929 the corps was granted permission to wear the Leicestershire
Tiger as its cap badge and to march past to one of its regimental marches. In 1947 the Contingent was
granted the privilege of wearing collar badges. The badge comprises a Rutland horseshoe encircling a
small sprig of oak leaves and an acorn above a silver scroll inscribed Oakham. It records part of the
history of the Rutland Regiment which was amalgamated with The Northamptonshire Regiment to
become its 2nd Battalion and wore collar badges incorporating the Rutland Horseshoe. The battalion
was later disbanded and the Rutland insignia ceased to be worn by any unit of the British Army. The
Contingent is proud to be the only service unit to wear a badge indicating its connection with Rutland.
The Contingent mounted Guards of Honour for HRH The Duke of Gloucester in 1955 and for HRH
The Duke of Edinburgh in 1957. On the occasion of the Proclamation of Accession of HM King
George VI and also of HM Queen Elizabeth II, when Guards of Honour were mounted for the High
Sheriff of Rutland. The Contingent was represented at the Centenary Parade of the Cadet Forces
which was held before Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 1960.
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The Army Section is now affiliated to The Royal Anglian Regiment. The Royal Naval Section was
formed in 1965 and was followed by the RAF Section in 1966. The Royal Naval Section was
subsequently disbanded in 1982.
In both World Wars all the Officers joined the colours shortly after the outbreak of War, their places
being taken by other masters for the duration of the war. Between 1914 and 1918 seventy one Old
Boys and masters gave their lives and between 1939 and 1945 eighty three former members of the
Corps were killed or died on active service.
The Officers and NCOs of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment and later the Royal Anglian Regiment
have given constant assistance with training. In 1939, with the doubling of the Territorial Army, this
debt was partly repaid when the Corps provided cadet NCO instructors to assist the training of a large
number of recruits in the 5th Battalion (Territorial Army) and a similar service was performed in 1940
when the Local Defence Volunteers was first formed and lacked instructors, weapons and training
equipment. Many former members of the Corps served in the Regiment as Regulars, Territorials or in
the Supplementary Reserve and in their National Service.
Between the wars the OTC was popular and accounts written up in The Oakhamian suggest that it
was considered to be fun. Field Days, for example, from the beginning and well into the 1920s and
1930s often involved whole contingent attack/defence exercises with contingents from Uppingham,
Rugby, Oundle, Wellingborough and Stamford Schools. The Contingent might catch a train from
Oakham to stations such as Caldecott, Medbourne, Uppingham, South Luffenham or Manton and then
march to the agreed battle ground. Afterwards they would march back to the station and catch the
train home. During the 1940s and 1950s the training emphasis shifted to teaching the principles of fire
and movement and to section and platoon attacks. Later, Field Days became opportunities for subgroups to do their own training, for example, Signals exercises, RA exercises with their 25 pounders,
visits to Regimental Depots, visits to RAF Stations and, for a time, cruises in HM Ships by the RN
Section; many of these exercises allowed cadets to be instructed for a day by professionals.
The OTC / JTC / CCF provided such activities as Adventure Training with annual tented camps,
military Fieldcraft, Signalling and Royal Artillery Drill with its own 25 pounder guns and, of course,
target shooting. There was a flourishing RAF Section with its own glider and opportunities for air
experience flying at a local airfield. A Naval Section functioned for several years, but received little
assistance from the Senior Service and had to be abandoned. A fifes and drums band gave way to a
full military brass band with a full time bandmaster. The band beat retreat after stumps were drawn
on Speech Day and led the whole contingent, officers included, in the March Past at the Annual
Inspection. For a time it also performed at the annual Remembrance Day ceremony at All Saints
Church.
During the 1940s military activities had become part of normal life but by the time of the middle
1950s compulsory membership began to be questioned. While National Service lasted, then
membership of the CCF was considered to be an advantage, it being widely believed that the holding
of a Certificate A would entitle a recruit to a shorter period of basic training while also offering a
short track to a National Service Commission. Even then it was felt necessary to spell out these
possible advantages in talks by Inspecting Officers and in print in articles published in The
Oakhamian. The War Office, however, was not so sure and made it clear in the early 1950s that
Certificate A would no longer count towards relief of basic training. After National Service ended in
about 1960 compulsory membership was increasingly questioned and CCFs turned even more
towards Adventurous Training to make things interesting and more attractive. The Duke of
Edinburgh’s Award Scheme (DofE) gained prominence and eventually became an alternative to
purely military training. Field Days were expanded to Field Weekends allowing for more extensive
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camping activities and also for military exercises lasting more than just a few hours. During its first
half century the Corps provided the main out of school activity apart from Rugby Football, Cricket
and a little Hockey, Swimming (for a short period in the Summer Term), Road and Cross Country
Running and, of course, a Scout Troop. It was compulsory for all senior boys (13+) to join.
The success of the contingent was, of course dependent on the commitment of its officer strength.
Lieutenant Cox H.J. Cox, OBE, joined the staff in 1939 having been invalided out of the wartime
army and commanded the Contingent with distinction. School shooting flourished during his time in
command and Oakham won the Ashburton Shield at Bisley on three occasions (1966, 1972 and 1975).
It was unfortunate that the school’s own Open Range had to be closed in 1977 for safety reasons
although the school did win the Shield again in 1987. Lieutenant Colonel Cox was succeeded in 1972
by Lieutenant Colonel M. Stevens and subsequently in 1982 by Lieutenant Colonel R.C. Gregory, one
of a number of officers who had spent time in National Service. Since 1997 the CCF has been
commanded by Squadron Leader Gill Dixon (1997), Major S.C.D. Gutteridge (2001), Major P. Nutter
(2005), Squadron Leader M.G. Evans (2006) and Major D. Taylor (2008). The CCF Orderly Room,
Store and Armoury were moved to the Wharflands Classroom area in 1930 and then to Kilburn Yard
in 1952. Finally, with the opening of the present building in 1989, the range was incorporated into a
complete CCF HQ.
But times were changing. In 1973 girls had arrived in the CCF and formal military training with
emphasis on foot and arms drill was considered inappropriate for 17 and 18 year old boys and girls
not destined for careers in the armed services. The Second World War was becoming history. The
CCF adapted to change by ensuring that all cadets took the first part of the Army Proficiency
Certificate with its military requirements of drill, weapon training and map reading, but cadets were
then allowed the option of undertaking Community Service or Adventurous Training, and a Civil
Defence Section was also formed. Although still subsidised by the Ministry of Defence these cadets
were not required to wear military uniform and carried out training for the Duke of Edinburgh’s
Award Scheme under the guidance of Brian Needham, later to be awarded the MBE for his
contribution to the Scheme nationally. This was a satisfactory arrangement for the school for many
years, but the MOD decided that there was insufficient military training in the Army Section and
withdrew some financial support in much the same way that the Royal Navy had decided that the
Naval Section was an umbrella for the school’s Sailing Society. In 1982 it was agreed that the CCF
should become a voluntary organisation. Lieutenant Colonel Stevens’ decade as Commanding
Officer coincided with a period of tremendous changes in public attitude, not to say hostility towards
the armed services. His sensitive and dignified leadership contributed greatly to the smooth transition
of Oakham School CCF from a large and somewhat unwieldy compulsory activity for all boys into a
smaller voluntary and indeed popular activity for both boys and girls. From the 1980s onward the
CCF has been sponsored by the MOD with the basic aims of providing practical leadership training
and inculcating a disciplined and adventurous attitude amongst its members. Naturally it also
provides opportunities to experience the Service way of life but overt recruiting for the Armed Forces,
still less officer training in this technological age, is not part of its mandate.
In 1972 the CCF became voluntary for members of the 7th form. So Instructors became younger, yet
with less maturity also came more enthusiasm for the whole enterprise. Also in 1972 a new APEX
exam was introduced for the Army Proficiency Certificate. It involved cadets being inspected on their
Turnout, Drill, Shooting and Safety, and Map Reading (Orienteering). Having passed these initial
tests cadets moved on to take any two subjects from a list of eight which included Signals, Royal
Artillery, REME, Battlecraft, Adventurous Training….. Thereafter cadets might join the NCO Cadre
to learn Methods of Instruction and become cadet instructor NCOs.
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In 1973 girls were recruited into the CCF. From the beginning the girls engaged in exactly the same
activities as those of the boys. Accepting the girls into the CCF presented no serious difficulties. In
the absence of any initial instructions on uniform, the Oakham girls were issued with the same
uniform as the boys. This proved more practical and smarter than the ex-ATS dress with which the
Contingent was subsequently issued and which would have created a terrible ‘Mum’s Army’ image.
Meanwhile the boys’ uniform had evolved in pace with that of the Armed Services from Battledress
to Pullovers with smart Drill trousers or lightweight trousers and, of course, the Disruptive Pattern
Camouflage uniform with which we are now familiar.
In 1980, because of financial concerns from the MOD, the Girls’ Adventurous Training for the Duke
of Edinburgh’s Award was cut off from the CCF and that section became totally independent from the
CCF. Also by 1980 that once important school event the CCF Annual Inspection had become only
one of several activities for that day mentioned in the Red Book. It was not seen as terribly important
to the rest of the school any more.
By 1982, the MOD’s financial concerns were affecting other parts of the CCF. The MOD was cutting
costs and …lack of funds and the changing nature if things forced the CCF to go voluntary… (Brian
Needham). The MOD was no longer willing to pay for what it perceived to be non-military training
so that the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme lost its financial support. The CCF went voluntary
and many opted to join the DofE scheme instead. The number of cadets opting for the CCF
immediately fell from 320 to 90. Within a generation, however, the numbers had climbed back up to
about 160. If cadets were to enjoy the CCF and at the same time acquire a wealth of experiences and
achievements leading to greater self-reliance, then they were expected to participate to the full. The
day of the ‘Monday afternoon only’ cadet had ended with compulsory membership of the CCF.
The voluntary CCF was now smaller and much more manageable. The structure became less formal
and, as specialist courses for cadets had always been available, during the 1980s and 1990s cadets
continued to make good use of them, from visits to Service Units to Gliding, Skiing and Parachuting
Courses. From the year 2000, the CCF began to take a much higher profile in The Oakhamian which
published regular articles and photographs describing its activities. During these years, the CCF
became a popular and rewarding activity for boys and girls with both Army and RAF Sections
attracting enthusiastic cadets who were able to take advantage of a number of exciting activities both
at home in service establishments and abroad under service sponsorship.
The CCF appears to be fun once more.
[The photographs that appeared with this article have been distributed amongst the following text.]
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THE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS 1910-40
Commanding Officers
Major F.R.S. Cosens (1910-14)
Lieutenant Colonel H.P.B. Gough (1914-15)
Captain F.H. Jerwood (1915-19)
Captain S.R. Pullinger (1919-25)
Captain F.H. Jerwood (1925-26)
Lieutenant A.E. Taylor (1926-28)
Captain, then Major K.R. Bowes, MBE, TD (1928-40)
Regimental Sergeant Majors
RSM T. Hicks (The Leicestershire Regiment) (1929-37)
RSM R.B. Brown (Army Physical Training Corps) (1940)
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The Officers Training Corps 1910-40
Officers
*Second Lieutenant C.S. Durst (1910)
Captain F.R.S. Cosens (1911-12)
*Second Lieutenant J. Partington (1911-12)
*Lieutenant E.G. Langdale (1912)
*Captain S.R. Pullinger (1913-19, but on war service 1914-18)
*Second Lieutenant, then Lieutenant, then Captain Revd. F.H.Jerwood (1915)
*Second Lieutenant S.E. Sweatman (1916)
*Second Lieutenant T.J. Bromhead (1917)
*Lieutenant G.N. Manley (1924)
*Second Lieutenant B. Clutterbuck (1924)
*A.F.H. Neale (1924)
*Lieutenant J.N. Phillips (1925-28)
*Lieutenant A.E. Taylor (1925-28)
*Captain, then Major K.R. Bowes, MBE, TD (1926-40)
Lieutenant L.S. Hawkes (1927)
*Second Lieutenant, then Lieutenant, then Captain, then Major G.R. Liebert (1928-39)
*Lieutenant E.P. Lougher (1934-35)
*Lieutenant J.M. Selby (1935-36)
*Second Lieutenant D.S. Crichton (1937-39)
*Captain G. Talbot Griffith (1939-444)
*Lieutenant Colonel H.J. Cox (1939-72)
[*Signifies Member of Staff]
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PSI / SSI
Sergeant Daft (1911-16)
Sergeant Saunders (1917-27)
RSM T.Hicks (1928-37)
Sergeant Perkins (1937-41)
Helper
Mr. E.C. Pickering-Clarke (1939-40)
Inspecting Officers
1916 Lieutenant General Sir A.E. Codrington, GCVO, KCB
1917 Field Marshal Viscount French, KCB, KCMG, GCVO, GCB, ADC, OM, KP
1922 Colonel J.E. Turner, CMG, DSO
1924 Major General G. Van Straubenzee
1925 Colonel L.H.P. Hart, DSO, TD
1926 Captain H.T. Birch-Reynardson
1927 Colonel L.H.P. Hart, DSO, TD
1928 Major A.T. LeM. Utterson, DSO
1929 Colonel G.H. Martin, CMG, DSO, OBE
1930 Captain S.B. Rawlins, MC, RA
1931 Colonel E.J. Skinner, DSP, CRA
1932 Major General P.C. Borrett, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO
1933 Major General Sir E.M. Woodward, KCMG, CB
1934 Lieutenant Colonel R. LeFanu, MC
1935 & 1936 Colonel W.J.O’B. Daunt
1939 Major Rennie
1940 Lieutenant Colonel W.S. Cowland, DSO
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Non-Commissioned Officers
[The list of Non-Commissioned Officers is dependent on what can be gleaned from The Oakhamian,
since full list have not been preserved within the OTC; apologies are given for omissions and errors.]
1911: Lance-Corporals (on Probation) E.S. Bromhead, G.W. Gooch, B.E. Jerwood, S.H.G.
Humfrey, C.F. Scott, E.G. Snaith, G.G. Sills, M.A. Neilson
1911: Colour Sergeant E.S. Bromhead; Sergeant S.H.G. Humfrey; Corporal C.C.Sills; Lance
Corporals M.A. Neilson, J.W. Mason, H.S. Gordon, D.W. Ryan, E.A. Mitchell
1912: Colour Sergeant S.H.G. Humfrey; Sergeant E.A. Mitchell; Corporal D.W. Ryan; Lance
Corporals C.H. Fitch, R.C. Robinson, H.S. Pick
1913: Colour Sergeant J.C.P.E. Metcalfe; Sergeant R.C.Robinson; Corporals E.J. Crisp,
C.H.Fitch; Lance Corporals D.C.R. Lloyd, C.A.Thornton
1914: Lance Corporal G.C. Coleman
1915: Sergeant Major R.L. Taverner; Sergeant J. Wilson; Lance Corporals W.L. Barnett, G.E.
Curtis, G.P. Lockwood
1916: Cadet Officer J. Wilson; Sergeants G.E. Curtis and G.P. Lockwood; Band Corporal
W.L. Barnett; Corporals C.A. Power, C.P.W. Robinson; Lance Corporals E.C.A. RunnelsMoss, M.J. Kingham
1917: Colour Sergeants G.P. Lockwood, W.L. Barnett; Corporals C.A. Power, M.J. Kingham;
Lance Corporals G.T. Hankey, D.M.J. Murray, Cosens, J.G.I. Keys, G.H. Russell, E.A. Titley,
W.C.G. Potts
1918: Cadet Sergeant Majors G.P. Lockwood, M.J. Kingham; Sergeants J.G.I. Keys, W.L.
Barnett, B.D. Beeston; Lance Corporals G.H. Russell, F.R.S. Cosens, C.H. Dalgliesh, R. Everett,
R.H. Clay
1919: Sergeant Major C.H. Dalgleish; Sergeant R.H. Keppel-Compton; Corporal C.W.
Sturton; Lance Corporals Eric C. Oates, R.T. Bent, H.M. Barron, W.T. Sturgess
1920: Sergeant R.W. Webb, R. Everett; Corporals W.P. Dutton, D.O. Mitchelmore; Lance
Corporals L.S. Bennett, C.F, Brockington, C. Wortley, Dwyer, Esmond C. Oates, C. Power, G.E.
Glazier, R.K. Eady
1921: Cadet Sergeant Major W.P. Dutton; Sergeants D.O. Mitchelmore, G.W. Taverner;
Corporals C. Wortley, R.A. Graff; Lance Corporals C.F. Brockington, D.H. Lockwood, F.N.C.
Dwyer, R.M. Dutton, E.A.Glover, R.A. Castle, J.E.J. Perkins
1922: Sergeant Major R.O. Brooks; Sergeants G.E. Black, Thompson; Corporals H.J. Sturton,
G.O. Brooks; Lance Corporals W.H. Weston, J.P. Bristow, K.T. Whysall, R.M. Pope, Hill, H.D.
Stephens-Clarkson, B.H. Olney
1923: Cadet Sergeant Major R.O. Brooks; Sergeants M.T. Crick, C.A.C. Sinker; Corporals J.
Duncan, W.J. Thompson, F.T. Doleman, W.H.G. Saunt; Band Corporal G.K.E. Lowe: Lance
Corporals B.H. Olney, H. Childs, C.J. Bell, E.S. Etheridge, J.B. Marshall, I.C. Hill, H.P. Tyler
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1924: Cadet Sergeant Major G.O. Brooks; Sergeants J.B. Marshall, D.H.V. Board, J. Marson,
P. Childs, C.F. Palmer; Corporals J.B. Marshall, G.K.E. Lowe, E.S. Etheridge, I.C. Hill, J.
Everett, W.H.G. Saunt, J.C.B. Thompson, B.C. Eady, R.G. Ryley, L.S. Hawkes; Band Corporals
D.H.V. Board, R.H.M. Britten; Lance Corporals H.P. Tyler, W.A.C. Goode, G.S. Stapleton, T.
Newton, C.E. Williams, E.A. Unna, P.W. Graham, L.R.F. Earl, C.H. Schwind, R.F. Olive, R.T.
Walker
1925: Corporal D.A. Senior; Lance Corporals F. Senior, C.J. Pope, A.H. Jones
1926: Cadet Sergeant Major P. Childs; Company Quarter Master Sergeant L.S.Hawkes;
Sergeants W.A.C. Goode, P.W.H. Graham, L.R.F. Earl, R.G. Ryley, R.H.M. Britten, D.L. Atter,
O.P. Thomas; Corporals J.M.A. Ennion, M.H. Jones, J.H.H. Borley. J.H. Fisher, C.H. Schwind;
Lance Corporals F.W.H. Tuckett, R.B. Marshall, C.G.F. Clark, C.R. Cattell, P.N.C. Sinker, G.L.
Talbot, D.J. Eayrs, C.G. Hawthorn, G.H. White, T.C. Baines
1927: Cadet Sergeant Major L.P. Dutton; Company Quarter Master Sergeant M.H. Jones;
Sergeants G.L.C. Cole. H.D. Senior, R.B. Marshall, B.H. Marshall, J.F. Cook; Corporals H.D.
Senior, D.C.C. Ferrier; Lance Corporals R.C.J. Goode, I.W. MacKichan, N. Manby, W.J.B.
Johnson, M.S. Gordon, J.T. Hardwicke, W.H. Long, G.F.H. Underwood, R.W.A. Yates
1928: Cadet Sergeant Majors P.J. Fisher, I.W. MacKichan; Company Quarter Master
Sergeant T.S.R. Fisher; Sergeants N. Manby, G.R. Hawkes, H.K. Eady, H.B. Bradfield, R.V.
Stapleton, C.K. Elliott, G.H. Allbrook, A.S. Walker; Corporals D.C.C. Ferrier, R.C.J. Goode,
E.W. Cattell, T.B. Elphick, A.C. Martin, H.A. Lees, G.E. Newton, G. Chatterton, A.L. Forster,
M.H.C. France, E.J. Lace; Lance Corporals G.C. Frost, W.A. Underwood, G.M. Holroyde, W.
Mason, K.I. Dexter, C.A.C. Cole, G. Chatterton, P.E.G. Selby, J.S. Brown, G.H.W. Goode, G.N.
Bright, E.W. Berry, R.K. Allen, C.C. Love, G.P. Smith, H. Stephens, R.H. Churchill, P.T. Hart,
S.A.F. Vidler
1929: Cadet Sergeant Major I.W. MacKichan; Company Quarter Master Sergeant T.S.R.
Fisher; Sergeants G.H. Allbrook, A.S. Walker, C.K. Elliott; Corporals J.S. Brown, G.
Chatterton, A.C. Martin; Lance Corporals G.P. Smith, P.T. Hart, H. Stephens, G.F.B. Archer,
S.A.F. Vidler
1930: Cadet Sergeant Major H.A. Lees, G.H.W. Goode; Company Quarter Master Sergeant
E.J. Lace, Elphinstone; Sergeants R.H. Churchill, C.C. Love, A.L. Forster, M.H.C. France (Drum
Major), J.S. de M. Hill, E.V. Rintoul, B.B. MacKichan; Corporal R.K. Allen, G.K. Weller, R.V.
Price, D. Skingley, G.P.C. Eastgate, E.A.P. Fletcher, W.D. Webster, T.B. Flewitt, A.B. Harrison,
C.C. Kirby; Lance Corporals T.E. Williamson, G. Vaulkhard, P.J. Kerr, D.V. de Candole, W.H.
Peasgood, F.E. Harris, J.R. Shouler, J.G. Fife, R.E.G. Weddell, E.M.H. Smith, E.A.B. Fletcher,
J.H. Elliott, P.R. Sawyer, S. Egar, J.H.N. Molesworth, C.A.P. Winser (i/c Drums), A.V.H.G.
Abbott, J.L. Baines, R.H. Buxton, J.B. Reece
1931: Cadet Sergeant Major C.S. Elphinstone, G.H.W. Goode, P.R. Sawyer; Company
Quarter Sergeant Major J.S. de M. Hill; Sergeants S. Egar, T.B. Flewitt, A.B. Harrison, C.C.
Kirby, J.G. Fife, C.A.P. Winser, P.K. Hill, R.H. Buxton; Corporals J.L. Baines, R.E.G. Weddell,
A.V.H.G. Abbott, T.C.S. Smith, J.H. Elliott, A.E. Hilditch, W.H. White, F.P. Heath; Lance
Corporals B.B. Inger, R.H. Brett, G.O. Richardson, J.G. Griffin, J.R. Dickens, J.R. Ascott, R.H.
Lace, T.W. Southwell, J.N. Duff, G.P. Attewell, H.W. Elliott, G.B.G. King, J.C. Ingram, J.G.
Cutts, L.V. Johnson
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1932: Cadet Sergeant Major P.R. Sawyer, J.R. Dickens; Company Quarter Master Sergeant
E.V. Rintoul, C.A.P. Winser; Sergeants J.H. Elliott, W.H. White, F.P. Heath, C.O. Hilditch, J.C.
Ingram, H.W. Elliott, J.G. Heron; Drum Sergeant R.H. Buxton; Corporals J.R. Ascott, R.H.
Lace, G.B.G. King, T.W. Southwell, W.O.C. Hemmings, G.C. Weston, J.G. Cutts, J.L. Barber,
B.W. Barnett, M.R. Quartley, T.F. Merton, J.C. Ingram; Lance Corporals J.B. Bradfield, R.H.
Roe, W.S. Black, G.P. Attewell, H.W. Elliott, J.N. Duff, G.P.C. Hodgson, L. Johnson, G.M.M.
Mathews
1933: Cadet Sergeant Major J.R. Dickens; Company Quarter Master Sergeant C.A.P.
Winser; Sergeants H.W. Elliott, W.O.C. Hemmings, G.C. Weston, J.G. Cutts, J.L. Barber, M.R.
Quartley, B.W. Barnett, T.W. Southwell, D.H.S. Thompson; Drum Sergeant J.G. Heron;
Corporals R.H. Barber, B.H. Wescott, P.G. Beard, D.H. Highton, S.J.A. Willett, R.J.S. Boyes,
G.R. Scruby; Lance Corporals O.V.H. Farrant, H.H. Gough, G.R. Scruby, D.H.S. Thompson,
P.G. Allen, R.J.S. Boyes, W.E.S. Hubbard, M. Rowntree, E.K. Stansfield, B.G. Wells, A.B.
Harvie, F.L. Jones
1934: Cadet Sergeant Majors W.O.C. Hemmings, H.H. Gough; Company Quarter Master
Sergeants D.H. Highton, M.C. Whiting; Sergeants R.H. Barber (i/c Drums), P.G. Beard, D.H.S.
Thompson, H.P. Rook, R. Herbert (Drum Major), E.W. Guillaume, J. Starkey, T.G. Duxbury
(Drum Major); Corporals A.T. Elliott, J.A.S. Taylor, M.C. Whiting, M.S.W. Pearson, P. Rook,
P.N. Grist, T.M. Boys, J.D. Cameron, G.A. Wharton, D.A. Lumsden, M.G. Parsons, T.A.D.
Ennion, J.S. Hincks; Lance Corporals E.N.M. Snow, R.H. Royds, V. Burgass, A.H. du P.
Stickland, R.G. Watchorn, G.B. Blackburn, Healey, N. Swales, J.D. Parsons, W.M. Peet, J.L.
Walker, R.B. Langlois, J.C. McEune, J.M. Jerwood, S.J.D. Moorwood, H. Pope, D.S.C. Holland,
J.H. Dunn, M.G.P. Stoker, H.B. Harpham, M.G. Barber, J.H. Formby
1935: Cadet Sergeant Major H.H. Gough, T.A.D. Ennion; Company Quarter Master
Sergeant G.A. Wharton; Sergeants T.G. Duxbury (i/c Drums), J.A.S. Taylor, I.G. Jessop, D.R.
Evans, T.D. Bett, E.W. Guillaume, J.C. McEune, J.D. Parsons, H.B. Harpham (Drum Major),
R.B. Langlois, J.S. Hincks, M.G.P. Stoker, J. Starkey (Drum Major); Corporals J.D. Cameron,
D.A. Lumsden, S.J.D. Moorwood, M.G. Parsons, H. Pope, J.H. Dunn, J.M. Jerwood, Walker, J.D.
Fletcher, D.J. Seed, D.R. Evans, T.D. Bett, J.F.E. Drinkwater, J.H.B. Blake; Lance Corporals
Barber, J.F. Beacroft, P.S. Black, M.E. Blackstone, J.H. Formby, I.G. Jessop, R.V.G. Currall,
F.G. Durant, J.M. Emerton, W.A. Hamer, M. Hill, N.J. Ingram, L.R. Smith, F.E. Watson, M.F.R.
Kirk, D.W. Wells, D.W. Walker, R.C. Hodgson, D.S.C. Holland, J.B. Reynolds
1936: Cadet Sergeant Majors T.A.D. Ennion, H.P. Harpham. J.M. Emerton; Company Quarter
Master Sergeants H.P. Harpham, D.R. Evans; Sergeants R.B. Langlois, M.G.P. Stoker (Drum
Major), H. Pope, D.J. Seed, T.D. Bett, J.S. Hincks, W.A. Hamer, P.W. Wood, N.J. Ingram, J.H.B.
Blake (Drum Major); Corporals T.L. Drinkwater, J.D. Fletcher, J.M. Jerwood, M.E. Blackstone,
D.W. Wells, F.E. Watson, M.F.R. Kirk, J.E. Palmour, K.G. Glossop; Lance Corporals D.
Mangham, L.R. Smith, J.W. Womersley, D.H. Cullen, R.V.G. Currall, R.H. Duncalfe, J.G.
Shields, J.G. Cooper, R.P.T. King, P. Gordin, G.F.A. Stuart, R. Blackburn, N. Beeby, M.J.
Montague, P.N.L. Dickson, W.N. Downing, A.L. Rook, S.B. Bradfield, H.R. Savage
1937: Cadet Sergeant Majors J.M. Emerton, W.A. Hamer, N.J. Ingram; Sergeants J.H.B. Blake
(Drum Major), M.F.R. Kirk, P.N.L. Dickson, N. Beeby, J.G. Shields, R. Blackburn, P. Gordin,
S.B. Bradfield (Drum Major), W.N. Dowding, M.W. Leivers, M.A.Newling; Corporals R.P.T.
King, B.S. Lee, C.W.B. Hack, H.R. Savage; Lance Corporals A.M.H. Fisher, P. Rowntree,
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A.J.M. Richardson, J.H. Brewill, G. Brunton, H.U. Dawson, F. Hilton, M.J. Montague, P.A.
Senior, T.K. Taylor, J.A.W. Dilks, H.J.V. Hilditch, C.H. Tucker, I.C. Reid, A.A. Greenwood,
B.W. Wakefield, J.N. Cowell, G.V. Smith, H.E.B. Richardson, W.F.B. Briggs, W.R. Brittlebank,
C.I. Watson, J.R. Lawson
1938: Cadet Sergeant Majors S.B. Bradfield, A.A. Greenwood; Company Quarter Sergeant
Major P. Gordin; Sergeants B.S. Lee, A.M.H. Fisher, W.N. Dowding, H.R. Savage, J.A.W.
Dilks, A.E. Pollard, I.C. Reid (Drum Major); Corporals A.J.M. Richardson, J.R. Larsen, W.F.B.
Briggs, G.V. Smith, J.C. Donald, D.H.K.T. Sharp, H.J.V. Hilditch, A.L.Rook, M.A.E. Ennion,
P.C. Rumsey, N.R. Pearce, A.E.F. Lane; Lance Corporals J.R. Briggs, D. Billyeald, J.C. Donald,
B.W. Wakefield, J.W. Cowell, F.H. Holderness, P. Mangham, R.F. Guillaume, P.T.K. Lanceley,
C.E. Montague, J.F. Twigg, D.E.O’N. Johnson
1939: Cadet Sergeant Majors A.A. Greenwood, A.E. Pollard, D.H.K.T. Sharp, G.V. Smith;
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Kilbourne; Sergeants I.C. Reid (Drum Major), J.C.
Donald, H.J. Hilditch (Drum Major), A.E.F. Lane, J.F. Twigg, N.R. Pearce, P. Mangham, A.R.
Grier, P.J.P. Read; Corporals A.L. Rook, P.C. Rumsey, P.T.K. Lanceley, J.B. Cox, C.E.
Montague, J.A.C. Baker, H.A. Cunliffe, A.J. Dalton, J.C. Dalton, E.R. Cook, K.D. Looms; Lance
Corporals R.B. West, J.W. Cowell, J.A.C. Baker, J.F.S. Robertson, R.F. Guillaume, D.E.O’N.
Johnson, R.B. Rook, J.B. Briggs, J.B. Barber, I.J. Smart, R.J. Aspinal, R.K. Sprigg, M.R.
Stanning
1940: Cadet Sergeant Major G.V. Smith; Sergeants A.J. Dalton, J.C. Baker, H.A. Cunliffe, J.C.
Dalton, E.R. Cook, P. Mangham, P.J.P. Read (Drum Major); Corporals R.B. Rook, J.B. Briggs,
J.B. Barber, K.D. Looms, J.W. Cowell, R.K. Sprigg; Lance Corporals C.I. Tighe, J.E.
Stevenson, D.O’C. Smith, D.C. Sansom, R.F. Wagstaff, M.R. Stanning
The Contingent in early days – date unknown
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Annual Camps
1911 Windsor Royal Review
1911 Tidworth Pennings
1912 Borden
1914 Rugeley
1921 Strensall
1924 Strensall
1925 Tidworth
1926 Strensall
1927 Tidworth
1928 Mytchett Farm
1928 Tidworth
1930 Strensall
1932 Bellarby
1933 Tidworth
1934 Tweseldown
1935 Strensall
1938 Tidworth
Formation
The formation of the Oakham School Branch of the Officer Training Corps receives a
mention in the Oakham School Magazine of Christmas Term 1910 (Vol XXV1 No 3) with
the paragraph: His (C.J.B. Scriven) successor, Mr C.S. Durst, has been gazetted Second
Lieutenant to the Oakham School Branch of the Officers Training Corps. Serious work has
already been begun in this new department; drilling is diligently practised under the eye of
Sergeant Daft, and Dr. Cozens, as the Director-in-Chief, gives weekly lectures on military
subjects, musketry, range-finding, and tactical evolutions. By the formation of this Corps we
have been able to realise a project that has been some time in process of development. That is
a subject for congratulation.
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Easter Term 1911 (Vol XXV11 No 1):
The editorial of the Summer Term 1911 (Vol XXV11 No 2) commented: At the same time,
perhaps, we may congratulate Dr Cosens on his recovery from a serious illness. The OTC
will be glad to see their (sic) Commanding Officer again. In his absence they have been
having a busy time of it, under the care of Mr Partington and Sergeant Daft. An inspection
and a field day have been part of their programme. The latter consisted of some military
operations, conducted near Seaton, in company with the Rugby, Uppingham and Oundle
Corps. We hope to publish an account of this sham fight on another page; at present, we
believe, both sides claim the victory at Seaton. More good things are to follow for the OTC,
including the Windsor Review and the Camp at the beginning of the month of August. The
OTC has leapt, at a bound, into popularity.
16
The OTC in 1911 – the only known photograph of the first batch of OTC participants at Oakham
Extract from the 1910 Company Record Book, providing some early names
17
More names from the 1910 Company Record Book – many of these boys fought in the First World War,
and many died for King and Country
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Christmas Term 1911 (Vol XXV11 No 3):
19
Tidworth Pennings Camp 1911
20
(Above) At Tidworth Pennings Camp in 1911
(Back Row) E.S.Bromhead, Sergeant S.H.G. Humfrey, F.V.R.Woodhouse
(Front Row) H.H. Harvey, E.J.Crisp, B.F.W.Mogridge
(Below) Sergeant S.H.G.Humfrey
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The editorial of the Summer Term 1912 (Vol XXV111 No 2) commented: The Summer Term
promises to be as interesting as ever. The OTC has a busy programme to fulfil, with field
days and inspections, manoeuvres and camp. The corps is going strong under Captain
Cozens and Lieutenant Partington and next term we shall hope to give an account of the work
that has been done.
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(Above) The Oakham OTC Contingent marching past Field Marshal Lord Roberts at the 1912 Bordon
Camp; Officer Commanding Lieutenant J.B. Partington, Sergeant J. Bromhead, and Sergeant S.H.G.
Humphrey (nearest camera) face the cadets.
(Below) The Oakham Lines at Bordon 1912: standing behind in the foreground are Taverner and Hall; in
the line are Baines, Metcalfe (in sweater), Ryan, Owen, Hill (back of head), Vidler, Dewar, Mogridge and
ANO (both looking away), Besch (without hat), SHG Humphrey, Pick, Kingham
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Christmas Term 1912 (Vol XXV111 No 3):
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Christmas Term 1913 (Vol XX1X No 3):
The OTC underwent an Inspection in the summer of 1914, and received the following report,
published in Christmas Term 1914 (Vol XXX No 3):
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Rugeley Camp 1914 – the comment is made that since the Reservist Cooks had left for France the Cadets
had to cook for themselves
A short article in Easter Term 1915 (Vol XXX1 No 1) reported that Instead of the usual Old
Boys’ Supper, a supper was given in honour of the OTC In proposing the toast of the evening,
Mr Sargant recalled with affection and pride the names of those O.Os. who have laid down
their lives in the war, and also of the many other O.Os. who have responded to the country’s
call. He also thanked Mr Hodge (“another Old Boy” he called him) who had volunteered to
do Mr Pullinger’s work in the school, while the latter was away with the colours.
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The war, of course, had an effect on the OTC. In his speech on Prize Day in summer 1915,
the headmaster, Tom Sargant, is reported (in Christmas Term 1915 (Vol XXX1 No 3) as
saying: There were a few things that he was very anxious to say that afternoon dealing very
largely with the relations of Public Schools to the war. In the first place, it was made
abundantly clear in the opening weeks of the war last year that Public Schools formed part of
the defence of the Empire. That was recognised by the War Office, for within a fortnight of
the outbreak of the war they sent down most particular instructions to the public Schools that
if any of the Masters who had commissions in the Officers’ Training Corps could be spared
they would be very glad of their services, but that on no account was the work of Public
Schools to be interfered with, and more especially that it was important that the work of the
OTC should go on. At that time Major Cosens had already gone to rejoin his regiment, and
Lieutenant Langdale has accepted a commission, and the questions was whether their third
officer, Mr Pullinger, would be able to go. There was a difficulty about arranging for his
work, but even before he had asked him, Mr Hodge had volunteered to come back and take
his place. Mr Gough very nobly volunteered to take up the work of the OTC, although he had
it all to learn in the midst of his school work, and at the end of six months became so efficient
that he obtained a commission. Then Mr Jerwood stepped into his shoes, and had carried on
the work of the Corps all this year. [He then read out the 1914 Inspection Report, as above.]
The report for this year stated: “Drill, fair; indeed, good considering the conditions. The
knowledge of signals and in extended order is not thorough, but the contingent worked keenly
and grouped rapidly and correctly. Manoeuvre, good. The direction and control of fire seem
to have been well practised. Discipline, good. The contingent was all present on parade, and
there was no talking or unsteadiness. Turn-out: the state of the clothing was good, and it was
noticeable that putties were very well put on. The webbing belts appeared somewhat greasy.
Arms and Equipment: the arms were very well kept and clean, which is creditable in view of
the fact there is no caretaker, and each member of the contingent is responsible for his own
carbine. These are the Martini pattern. There are no buglers or cyclists”. Those of them who
were present last year might remember that the Senior Non-commissioned Officer in the
school, Metcalfe, was given by General Codrington the A Certificate. He was given a
commission early in October, was gazetted Lieutenant in January, and Captain in April. He
(the headmaster) noticed it was stated the other day that someone of the age of nineteen, it
was thought, the youngest captain in the British Army. He looked up Metcalfe’s age and
found that he was eighteen when he received his commission as Captain. He mentioned this
because it showed the use of the Officers’ Training Corps, when they had a boy ready to go
straight from school and take his place among the officers. Also, they had another Old Boy
who was also captain before he was twenty; in fact he was still nineteen. He referred to
Captain Barnett. He, too, owed his promotion to the fact that he was keen on the OTC when
at school, afterwards joining the Senior Division in London, and was, therefore, ready to take
his place when he was wanted. Of the forty odd boys they might have seen on parade last
year, twenty were already either serving, or on the point of serving, their country, while from
the list they had compiled there were considerably over two hundred Old Boys who were now
serving their country, and had actually been mobilised. ….. If the Public School boys formed
part of the defences of the Empire in the rear, the Old Public School Boys formed the first
line of attack. This had not been an Army School. As he said last year on the same occasion
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as this, there had been times when a number of boys joined the Army, but then there had been
periods in which none had gone. During the last few years there had been six or seven boys
who had gone to Sandhurst, and four who had taken commissions In the Reserve of officers.
Naturally, those boys who had been attracted to the Army had been heroes in their school
before they went. As a rule, they had been athletic boys, and of those ten or eleven he was
talking about all but two had fallen already as heroes. One of these two was still in India; the
other had been sent home wounded and ill on three occasions. He could not help looking
forward to the future when this war would be over.
Oakham School OTC during the First World War
Officers Captain F.H. Jerwood & Second Lieutenant S.E. Sweatman
The OTC Drums on Doncaster Close – no known date
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Summer Term 1916 (Vol XXX11 No 2):
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The OTC(above) in 1916, with the first drums and bugles (below)
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Christmas Term 1916 (Vol XXX11 No 3):
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On Prize Day in Summer 1916, the Headmaster said: During the year, he was proud to say
the work of the Officers’ Training Corps had reached a high level of excellence, and this had
been due largely to the energy of boys in the school themselves, because there was no
department of school work which required the co-operation of boys so much as in the hard
work of drilling on the field, and it was also due to the untiring energy of the Commanding
Officer, Mr Jerwood. They had last year to mourn the loss of many stout hearts who had
given their lives to their country,. It was borne on him more and more as time went on how
the homes and schools of England were being sanctified by the devotion of their sons. It was
a devotion that would not be forgotten in this generation, nor the next, for the record of it
would be passed on from father and from mother to son, and then would not be forgotten in
the pages of history.
After prize-giving, the OTC paraded (61 in all, with two officers) and went through company
drill and manoeuvres.
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Easter Term 1917 (Vol XXX111 No 1):
33
(Top) The OTC in 1917, and (above and below) Field Marshal Viscount John French KP, GCB, OM,
GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC, later Earl of Ypres, inspecting the OTC Guard of Honour at Oakham Station
on 13th May 1917 when he visited Rutland to inspect the Rutland Volunteers
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Summer Term 1917 (Vol XXX111 No 2):
35
ChristmasTerm 1917 (Vol XXX111 No 3):
36
37
Easter Term 1918 (Vol XXX1V No 1):
38
FIRST WORLD WAR ROLL of HONOUR
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Easter Term 1920 (Vol XXXV1 No 1):
Annual Inspection 1920
40
Annual Inspection 1920 – March Past led by Commanding Officer Captain S.R. Pullinger
41
Officer Commanding Oakham School OTC, Captain S.R. Pullinger (1919-25)
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Christmas Term 1921 (Vol XXXV11 No 3):
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Oakham School OTC, commanded by Lieutenant Neal, at ease in the Market Square on the occasion of
the unveiling of the Oakham War Memorial
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45
Annual Inspection in 1921 or 1922 or 1923; the Inspecting Officer (if any) for 1921 and 1923 is not
known; in 1922 it was Colonel J.E. Turner, CMG, DSO
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Further photographs of the 1921 or 1922 or 1923 Annual Inspection;
Captain S.R. Pullinger leads his troops
Easter Term 1922 (Vol XXXVIII No 1)
No report
Summer Term 1922 (Vol XXXV111 No 2):
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Christmas Term 1922 (Vol XXXV111 No 3):
The OTC Band at Oakham Station
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Easter Term 1923 (Vol XXX1X No 1):
Summer Term 1923 (Vol XXX1X No 2):
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(Above) The OTC in 1923 and (below) the Officers and NCOs in 1923 – sitting second from left is CSM
Brooks, third from left is Lieutenant Neal, fourth from left is Captain Pulinger, and fifth from left is
Lieutenant Clutterbuck
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Summer Term 1924 (Vol XL No 2):
52
Armistice Day Parade 1924 : (above) Captain S.R. Pullinger leads the Contingent; (below) on parade in
the High Street
53
(Above) The Contingent marching from the Station on Armistice Day 1924;
(below) Annual Inspection 1924 by Colonel L.H.P. Hart
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Annual Inspection 1924
55
Armistice Day 1924
Contingent Commander Captain S.R. Pullinger leads his troops through Oakham
Annual Inspection by Colonel J.H.P. Hart in 1927 along with Commanding Officer Lt A.E. Taylor
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Christmas Term 1924 (Vol XL No 3):
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The Contingent at Summer Camp 1925, held at Tidworth
Summer Term 1926 (Vol XL11 No 2):
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Christmas Term 1926 (Vol XL11 No 3):
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1927 Field Day at Lyndon March, with at the front Lieutenant Taylor and CSM Dutton
1927 Recruits in school uniform and an army belt
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Sergeant M.H. Jones’ Platoon that won the Blair Shield in 1927
Easter Term 1928 (Vol XL1V No 1):
64
Summer Term 1928 (Vol XL1V No 2):
65
Christmas Term 1928 (Vol XL1V No 3):
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Mytchett Farm Camp 1928 – the last camp attended by Contingent Commander Lieutenant A.E. Taylor
before he departed for Shrewsbury School and by Lieutenant J.N. Phillips; command of the Contingent
was taken on in September 1928 by Captain – later Major – K.R. Bowes, in which position he remained
before departing for war service in 1940.
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(Left) Lt. A.E. Taylor, Contingent Commander 1926-28; (right) Lt. Taylor and Lt. K.R. Bowes,
Contingent Commander 1928-40, at Mytchett Farm Camp in 1928; (below) the drummers in 1929
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Easter Term 1929 (Vol XLV)
71
Summer Term 1929 (Vol XLV No 2)
72
Shooting at Brooke Hill Range in 1929; RSM on left and Lt. Bowes with shooting stick on right
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Christmas Term 1929 (Vol XLV No 3)
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75
Tidworth Park
Camp 1929:
in photo top right
are Captain K.R.
Bowes (on left) and
Second Lieutenant
G.R. Liebert (on
right)
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(Above left) RSM T. Hicks (1928-37)
(Above right) Captain K.R. Bowes (1926-40)
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Easter Term 1930 (Vol XLV No 4)
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Summer Term 1930 (Vol XLV No 5)
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Christmas Term 1930 (Vol XLV No 6)
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Officers and Cadets at Strensall Camp 1930
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OTC Drums at Strensall Camp in 1930
Easter Term 1931 (Vol XLV1 No 1)
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Summer Term 1931 (Vol XLV1 No 2)
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Christmas Term 1931 (Vol XLV1 No 3)
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Easter Term 1932 (Vol XLV11):
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Summer Term 1932 (Vol XLV11):
Corps of Drums 1932 under Drum Major J.G. Heron; on his right Lieutenant G.R. Liebert; on his left Major K.R. Bowes
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Annual Camp at Tidworth in 1933 with Major K.R.Bowes on the extreme left
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Christmas Term 1932 (Vol XLV11):
95
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Easter Term 1933 (Vol XLV111):
97
Summer Term 1933 (Vol XLV111):
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99
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(Above) General Sir Edward Woodward KCMG, CB, Colonel of the Worcestershire Regiment,
addreesing the Contingent at the Annual Inspection of 1933; CSM Dickens is standing third from the left
with his back to the camera; O.O. Lieutenant France is standing second from the right;
(below) he carries out the inspection; Lance Coprporal J.L. Barber is standing far right in the front rank,
with next to him Cadet Wharton; Corporal Barnett stands to attention at the front
101
The General watches the march past, with Lieutenant France on the far right
102
Christmas Term 1933 (Vol XLV1X):
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104
(Above) Drum Major John Heron leads his troops at Tidworth Pennings Camp in 1933;
(below) RSM Hick reads out the orders
105
Centre Photograph above :
Lieutenant G.R. Liebert sits
middle rank far left
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107
Easter Term 1934 (Vol L):
108
109
Easter Term 1934 (Vol L):
110
111
Christmas Term 1934 (Vol L):
112
1934 OTC Drummers at Summer Camp held at Tweseldown
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Easter Term 1935 (Vol L1):
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Summer Term 1935 (Vol L1):
116
117
Annual Camp at Strensall in 1935
Far left – Corporal Langlois; third left Sergeant Ennion; far right RSM Hicks
118
The Contingent at Strensall Camp in 1935; the five central figures seated (fifth to ninth from left) are
CSM Cough, Lieutenant Liebert, Captain Bowes, Second Lieutenant Lougher, and RSM Hicks
Forming the Camp Guard at Strensall in 1935
119
(Above and below) The Corps of Drums at the Oakham School OTC 25 th Anniversary Jubilee Parade in
1935, led by Drum Major M.G.P. Stoker (later Sir Michael Stoker)
Inspecting Officer Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Codrington, KCB, KCVO, addressing the Contingent
120
General Codrington, Hereditary Trustee Captain W.D. Johnson, and one-time Headmaster W.L. Sargant
The Headmaster waiting developments at the Saluting Base
121
Headmaster G. Talbot Griffith; Trustee Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Codrington, KCB, KCVO;
Hereditary Trustee Captain W.D. Johnson; Old Oakhamian Colonel Sir Hubert Bryan, KBE, CMG,
DSO; Officer Commanding Captain K.R. Bowes
Christmas Term 1935 (Vol L11):
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131
The Proclamation of Accession of His Majesty George V1 was read by the High Sheriff in
the Market Place in Oakham at 11 am on Monday December 14th and the Oakham School
OTC provided a Guard of Honour and four buglers (below).
132
Lieutenant Liebert and the Guard of Honour outside School House on the occasion of the Proclamation of
the Accession of King George V1 in November 1936
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(Above left) Lieutenant J.M. Selby (1935-36), Captain (later Major) K.R. Bowes (1926-40), and
Lieutenant (later Major) G.R. Liebert sometime in 1936-36
(Above right) Regular officer Colonel Baines with his son Cadet T.C. Baines (1919-26) when by chance
they happened to be present at the same summer camp
(Below left) Lieutenant Liebert discusses matters with the Staff Captain at Strensall Camp
(Below right) CSM D.H.K.T. Sharp
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The Drums in June 1937
Back Row: Smith, Ennion, Turnbull, Mangham, Robertson, Smith, Wagstaff, Young
Middle Row: Larsen, Hadley, Runnels-Moss, Blackstone, Read, Sharp, Donald, Lanceley, Watson,
Rumsey, Hilditch
Front Row: Lance Corporal Fisher, Lance Corporal Richardson, Corporal Bradfield, Major Bowes,
Drum Major Blake, Sergeant Ingram, Corporal King, Lance Corporal Lee, Reid
The Drummers and the Band in 1937-38
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The Buglers in 1937-38
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John R Larsen (1931-37 – Lance Corporal with Certificate C)
I joined the OTC, and I was a bugler. I can remember going to camp and being on guard
duty as bugler when a visiting general came to inspect; I was so nervous that instead of
blowing ‘General Salute’ I blew ‘Cookhouse’.
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The Contingent prepares to embark at Oakham Station for Strensall Camp in 1937
The Contingent marches into Strensall Camp in 1937
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The Contingent in Strensall Camp in 1937
The Officers at Strensall Camp in 1937
Standing: Drum Major Blake, Sergeant Ingram, Sergeant Kirk, Sergeant Dickson, Sergeant Bradfield,
Cadet Sergeant Major Hamer
Sitting: Lieutenant Liebert, Major Bowes, Lieutenant Selby
On Ground: PSI Sergeant Perkins, Cadet Quarter Master Sergeant Gordin
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The Officers deliberate
Tactics Course
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Sergeant Kirk readies the Guard
The Guard - Standing: Sergeant D.N.L. Dickson, Corporal M.A. Newling, Bugler Larsen, A.N. Other,
Sergeant M.F.R. Kirk, Cadet P. Mangham
Kneeling: Cadet I.C. Read, Cadet J.W. Dilks
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Alex Greenwood (1930-38, Cadet Sergeant Major with Certificate A)
My school life revolved around rugger in the winter, cricket in the summer, and shooting with
the OTC all year round. I was in the school choir and played the clarinet in the school
orchestra. My academic side suffered. In 1936 I got into the 1st XI as a bowler and took two
wickets in my first match, against Bedford Modern School. I also won my first cup for
shooting and got into the school shooting VIII, against Trent College. On December 14th
1936 I was in the school OTC Guard of Honour for the reading of the proclamation of
George VI, which was read by Lt. Col. R.E.M. Heathcote, the High Sheriff, who also took the
salute at the subsequent march past. In the summer holidays I always went to camp with the
OTC, either at Strensall in Yorkshire or Tidworth in Hampshire. In early 1937 I decided that
I would like to go to RMC Sandhurst and get a regular Army commission, and with this in
view I soon passed Certificate A in the OTC and became an NCO. The following year I went
with senior NCOs of the Corps for a short course at the Leicestershire Regiment depot; we
lived in the Officers’ Mess, and I was most impressed with the way of life. In the Christmas
term I was made a school prefect, which meant wearing a special black cap. I was allowed to
choose two fags to look after my personal chores, and I was allowed to beat boys who
misbehaved, but I had to record that event in the beating book kept in the prefects’ study
(known as No 9). School Prefects were expected to read the lessons in Chapel. These were
many privileges and I was now enjoying myself at 18 and a half years. I had become CSM in
the OTC, the highest position at the time. I was also captain of Shooting and in the VI Form
in the Army class, under the instruction of the headmaster, who had formerly been a
housemaster at Wellington College and had coached many pupils for the Army Entrance
Examination.
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The Contingent marching into camp at Tidworth Pennings in 1938, led by Major Bowes and Cadet
Sergeant Major Bradfield
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The Drums Beat Retreat at Tidworth Pennings camp in 1938
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Cadets embarking on a Flying Course while at Tidworth Pennings camp in 1938; Cadet Sergeant
Bradfield is standing on the extreme right
The Guard at Tidworth Pennings camp 1938 under Guard Commander Sergeant J.W. Dilks with
Corporal A.E. Pollard at the extreme left
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Sergeant A.A. Greenwood (fourth from right) supervises kit distribution
The March Past
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Night Operations at Tidworth Pennings
1938
The Arab Enemy
highlighted (left) by
Cadet Gerschel and Major Bowes
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Field Day Winter Term 1938
Top Left - Major Bowes talks to Lieutenant Liebert
Top Right - Headmaster G. Talbot Griffith talks to Major Bowes
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Summer Term 1939 (Vol L1V):
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Christmas Term 1939 (Vol L1V):
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Field Day 1939
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Field Day 1939
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Field Day 1939
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Field Day 1939
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Field Day 1939
(Left) Lieutenant Crichton (Died of Wounds in captivity in WW2) and Lieutenant Liebert;
(Right) Lieutenant Sefton with horse
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E.F. Pickering-Clarke, Jill Bowes (daughter of K.R.B.), Lieutenant G.R. Liebert, Second Lieutenant D.S.
Crichton, RSM T. Hicks; Major K.R. Bowes
Lieutenant Sefton (on horse) meets the Headmaster, G. Talbot Griffith; NCOs
Field Day 1939
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Certificate A Examination 1939
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Certificate A Examination 1939
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Field Day 1940
(Above) Major Bowes, Captain G. Talbot Griffith,
Second Lieutenant H.J. Cox; (below) GTG leads the
troops
Above
right:
reconnaissance
officer
Right: Sergeants Grier and
Sprigg
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Field Day 1940
Right: Three NCOs plan their action –
Drum Major Read,
Cadet Sergeant Major Smith,
Sergeant Mangham
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1940 NCOs Mess
Back Row – Sergeant Cowell, Sergeant Rook, Sergeant A.N. Other, Sergeant Sprigg
Front Row – Sergeant Dalton, Sergeant Grier, Cadet Sergeant Major Smith, Drum Major Cunliffe,
Sergeant Cook
The Drums in 1939-40
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Top Left:
The Tenor Drum Section
Top Right:
The Side Drummers
Right:
Drum Major
(1940)
P.J.P.
Read
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Photos of the school from the air taken by Flt. Lt. G.E. Newton in 1940
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The outbreak of war in autumn 1939 had considerable effect on the school’s activities. Brian
Needham, in his Oakham School – The Continuing Story (Vol 1) writes: The Second World
War did not seem to impinge on the school until after the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940
when members of staff (K.R. Bowes, G.R. Liebert, D.S. Crichton, D.A. Sherriff, H.J. Cox and
Rev. R.C.O. Goodchild) were called up; fortunately E.F. Pickering-Clarke, J. Moore, R.F.
Duesbury, F.J. Hill, E.K. Milliken, F.G. Hiscocks remained, joined by the invalided-out H.J.
Cox after two years in 1942, but otherwise teaching vacancies were filled by a rapidly
revolving list of superannuated pedagogues, refugees, and even some women. Almost thirty
members of staff came and went during the war years, and adequate staffing was one of the
major problems that the headmaster had to face. Wharflands lost its housemaster twice, once
when Major Bowes was called up and then when his temporary replacement, the Chaplain
the Rev. R.C.O. Goodchild, joined the Forces, his place being taken by the broad shoulders
of the headmaster himself, already in charge of the JTC in the place of Major Bowes. As in
the First World War, academic standards fell as a result of the combination of changing staff
members and the boys’ attention being removed from the classroom by outside events, with
gaining Certificate A in the JTC assuming greater importance than academic results. Even
so, a score of boys won places at Oxbridge during the war years. School numbers also
declined to begin with until a turn-around commencing in 1942, so that by 1945 there were
267 boys in the school, a third of them day boys. Indeed, both Red House and Hodge Wing
had to be re-opened in winter 1942 to take in the influx of boarders. Farside was turned over
to the growing of vegetables by the students, led by the headmaster and Bob Duesbury, the
boys were loaned out to local farmers when casual labour was needed, and most of the work
on the sports grounds and gardens was done by the boys. The headmaster wrote in an article
entitled Digging for Victory: “The work that boys have done on our own ground and for
farmers in the neighbourhood since last September should be recorded and I should like to
add my personal thanks to them. The bulk of the digging and hoeing on the Church Street site
(now the site of the Ashburton and Merton buildings] has been done by boys, and they have
greatly increased the area available for cultivation in the orchard [now the Round House
lawn] – digging, hoeing and, more recently, watering. The result is that, with less
professional gardeners in the employ of the school than in recent years, we should face the
autumn and winter more nearly self- supporting in vegetables than we ever have been. In
addition boys have done all the hedge-clipping about the place and a good deal of work on
Doncaster Close. This term parties of boys have been able to assist farmers in their
neighbourhood. This work was reported continually upon throughout the war, and such was
its importance that it was often at the expense of work in Form”. The boys ate their own
potatoes, shoals of pilchards, the new-fangled bully-beef, and much home-grown rhubarb
and damsons. In 1941 the report ran: “A trail of dark soil and frequent traffic in the form of
wheel-barrows and trucks along Station Road towards the old Tithe Barn [now the School
Shop] indicated activity ion agriculture on a scale that would not fail to impress the most
critical of outside observers. To ourselves it represented the accomplishment of a pleasing
task, pleasing in that it was work of real importance at this time, pleasing also when it drew
to a close and we could see the results of our labours; for it was no small job, first to prepare
a field [Far Side] of about three acres of potatoes for lifting, and then to dig, cart and store
them. We have, however, ensured our supply of potatoes for the whole year”. The 1942
report was even more congratulatory: “At this time of year we may be permitted to review
our activities during the past twelve months, and in them we feel some degree of satisfaction
and achievement. The area we planted with potatoes was larger this year than last year,
when, in addition to providing for ourselves for the whole year, we were able also to supply
some for the Community Feeding Centre. This year’s crop was quite as good as last year’s
and there is every indication at the moment that it will keep well. … We were fortunate, also,
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in having a heavy crop of fruit, particularly of damsons and plums, which kept squads of
pickers busy, to say nothing of the task of dealing with them in the kitchens of the Houses.
Our own efforts, supplementing the regular work of the gardeners, have enabled us to
provide during the year a very large proportion of our vegetables. More and more we have
had to turn our hands to other jobs both indoors and out- of-doors as the war-time problem
of labour became more acute. ….. Finally we have earned the thanks of the Agricultural
Committee and of our neighbours for assistance given all through the year, and especially at
the busy times when there was otherwise an insufficiency of labour on the farms for singling
beet, hoeing wheat- fields and potato-picking”. No reports appear for 1943 and 1944 as The
Oakhamian became a much slimmer volume as paper became scarcer, but then in 1945
comes “a job done to the best of one’s ability is its own reward, but the school can feel a
sense of satisfaction in the appreciative comments made by several visitors to Oakham and
the School during the past twelve months, many of whom have visited other schools besides
our own. They have seen parties of boys going off to give much needed helping-hand on
neighbouring farms, and, themselves unnoticed, they have seen and commented on good work
being done. They have watched work going on in our own gardens and fields, especially in
the potato-field, the results of which have fully justified the efforts involved. It has not been so
good a season for potatoes this year as last year; but the yield has been better than we at first
anticipated during the dry spell earlier in the year, and the crop is in good condition”. This
report was written by R.F. Duesbury, who had taken over responsibility for the work on the
grounds, and he is anxious to stress that most of the work on the sports grounds had been
undertaken by the boys under the direction of John Moore, while excusing the fact that
normal gardening had taken a back seat, resulting in a certain scruffy appearance at times –
“flower borders and lawns which have served as dumping places for coal and fuel” - but
with a promise to remedy this deficiency when peace finally came.
With respect to the OTC / JTC itself, he writes: The OTC (renamed the JTC – Junior
Training Corps in 1940) flourished with renewed vigour, of course, expanding to form in
1941 in conjunction with the town (10 Oakham School boys and 20 local school boys) an Air
Training Corps (Oakham School Flight No. 1533) under the command of John Moore (and
which was inspected post-war in 1957 by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh), with the learning of
the Morse Code and aircraft identification seemingly the main occupations in addition to
visits to RAF Cottesmore, to which the Flight was affiliated and to RAF North Luffenham
(but unfortunately without enjoying any flights). Unfortunately, field days and summer camps
had to be curtailed for both the JTC and the scouts for lack of transport and petrol as the
school once more perforce closed in on itself. However, a number of senior members (the
NCOs) attended military camps for specific training during their school holidays, such as at
the Infantry Training School in Yorkshire, and the knowledge gained was passed onto JTC
recruits in the following term. A number of the JTC enrolled in the Local Defence Volunteers,
and indeed the NCOs were instrumental in training the Rutland force on the school’s
Miniature Range, and lack of ammunition for such practice was a constant moan. Even
internally the NCOs had to take much more responsibility for instruction, such was the lack
of suitable officers, manpower being away serving in the forces. The Commanding Officer,
Major Bowes, had gone to active duty in 1940, his place to be taken by the headmaster; but
illness forced his own retirement from that post in 1944, with Captain H.J. Cox taking
command. It is of interest to note that stretcher parties were formed by boys not in the JTC,
who were taught first aid for use in a possible enemy attack by air or perhaps by invasion; it
would be interesting to know if these boys were in fact pacifists. In 1940 the fear of invasion
was high, and “at the beginning of term we filled a large number of sandbags and distributed
them about the school buildings in readiness for the incendiary bomb”, which never in fact
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fell. Scouting at the school took on war-like appearance, with much of the training being
involved in learning to act as first-aiders and as messengers, practising taking messages
through enemy lines on the termly field days; the scouts, too, tended to lose their warranted
leaders and increasingly relied upon the expertise of the Patrol Leaders. Indeed, two
schoolboys, Evan McKenzie (1931-41) and Courtney (CTG) Blackmore (1936-41), most
unusually became warranted scoutmasters (ASM). In 1942 demand was such that the scout
troop was forced to expand to four dozen and a cub scout pack started, under the guidance of
Miss B. Arthur, newly appointed to the staff. Both scouts and JTC complained throughout
about the lack of suitable uniforms during these clothes-rationing war-years, but in 1942
“some of us having donned battle-dress and discarded our service uniform feel that we are
now ‘real’ soldiers”. However, the decision was taken to wind-up the Flight 1553 on the
coming of peace in 1945, it officially coming to an end in December of that year; in the four
and a half years of its existence it had catered for 125 cadets. A consequence was the
enlargement of the JTC, which split into two companies (one of three platoons and one of
two) in September 1945.
T.B. Harrison (1935-42, Certificate A) remembers: We found that some of the younger staff
had been called into the services. Air-raid dugouts appeared almost overnight, surrounded by
sandbags. Every night when the air-raid sirens went we went to the dug-outs opposite the
Chapel front door. Soon we went only when a heavy raid – such as on Coventry– appeared to
be happening in the Midlands.
A.C.S. Ross (1941-45, Corporal with Certificate A) comments: To help the war effort, when
many men were away, we were sent out for half-days of hay making, putting swedes in
clamps, and picking potatoes. Potatoes were the best as one could both eat them raw in the
fields and bring some back for roasting in Bert Cutting’s furnace. We often worked alongside
German POWs on the farms and got along with them perfectly; after all, everyone was
sharing a day’s freedom from incarceration. Much cigarette swapping went on, giving good
cover for boys who wanted a dimp; I tried, hated it, and haven’t smoked since. The OTC
became the JTC and we all had to join. I drove the first JTC motor cycle into the ditch on Far
Side and broke it. We paraded a couple of times a week, once in uniform and once with
blanco-ed belt over our black jackets, which left a permanent green stain. We had quite
heavy wireless sets which one cadet carried
on his back while another walked behind tuning the thing and talking. It seemed sensible to
become skilled at the tuning and talking aspects. There were field days once or twice a term
when we would fire blanks and undertake flanking movements. On one of these a
contemporary from the Wharflands enemy had a supply of live rounds, from a soldier cousin
I believe, and the overhead crack-thump of these in the fields beyond the cemetery did much
for our fieldcraft skills. A few weeks before D Day in 1944 word went around that there was
to be a revue of massed airborne troops in the field on the Barleythorpe Road just across
from the station. A few of us stood by the entrance farm gate and watched the hundreds,
maybe thousands, of Red Berets assemble. There was a hush as a Rolls Royce drew up and
King George VI descended right beside us. My strongest memory is of how ill he looked, and
that he was surely wearing lipstick (well, all right, make-up).
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E.A.A. Shadrack (1941-49, Certificate A) writes: While I was still in Junior House the
Americans arrived and we had a rota to stand on the corner of Cemetery Road, with caps in
the Just William tradition, so as to catch the chewing gum and Lifesavers which they threw us
as they came by in their Jeeps. From Doncaster Close we could watch them training in the
distance, with the occasional Royal Train to inspect troops in a field on the opposite side of
the station. Later we watched from Doncaster Close line upon line of Dakotas and gliders
going over for Arnheim, I guess.
J.M. Wright (1942-46, Corporal with Certificate A): School was interesting! A lot of retired
Masters had come back as the younger ones had joined up. Considering the rationing we
were fed quite well and stayed healthy. We all had our own butter and jam dishes with our
names on, so everyone had to ration out their own needs during the week. I played a lot of
sport, particularly cricket and rugby and cross-country running. Another outside activity was
potato picking for the war effort on a local farm; I did not enjoy this very much! In the winter
we were restricted in our activities because of the strict black-out orders. Air raid wardens
went around the town and the school to ensure that no lights could be seen by enemy aircraft.
Summertime was much better as in those days we had double British summer time, when it
was light until nearly 11 pm, so as to save electricity. The Americans joined the war after the
attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941 and in the months that followed they moved into
nearby Cottesmore air base, and soon we saw jeeps tearing about with the Americans
smoking large cigars, and it was all very exciting and great fun. Most days we could see from
Doncaster Close the Americans doing extensive parachute training from their Dakota
aircraft, and on one memorable occasion when I was batting at the town end and the Yanks
were parachuting, one of the parachutes didn’t open, plunging the poor fellow to almost
certain death, and the next ball I was bowled out. As I walked off, the left-arm bowler said
“Sorry, that must have put you off”, but I replied “No, it was a good ball, too good for me”.
The Americans used to leave the parachutes tangled up in trees, so it was not long before one
appeared rigged up in the gym, and rumour had it that the local ladies were wearing
camouflage silk underwear – but, of course, I did not have first-hand knowledge of this! In
the run-up to the invasion numerous Big Wigs passed through Oakham on their way to rally
troops. These included the King (George VI) and the Prime Minister (Winston Churchill),
and I remember being taken to Barkston Heath to hear Field Marshall Montgomery. D-Day
6th June 1944 and the evening sky was full of a great armada of aircraft and gliders with all
their lights on! By breakfast time everyone was excited and trying to get near a wireless so
they could follow events. At last General Eisenhower came over the radio and said that
Operation Overlord had begun and allied forces from the free world had landed successfully
on the mainland of Europe. Everyone cheered! By the end of 1944 we knew we were winning
when the War Office gave us a captured German sub-machine gun with a few rounds. At this
time I was captain of Shooting, so we decided to try it out in a corrugated hut alongside
Hodge Wing; we let off a few bursts, which made a tremendous din, and soon the
housemaster appeared demanding an explanation. We managed to convince him it was part
of the war effort, but it put an end to the firing, or perhaps we had just run out of ammo! One
evening in early 1945 we were woken by the air raid sirens, which hadn’t been heard for
some time, and we rushed to the dormitory windows, against all orders. We heard a noise
and clearly saw a VI Doodlebug flying fairly low over the cricket and rugby pitches on
Doncaster Close; shortly afterwards there was a flash and an explosion as it came down not
that far away.
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D.E. Wakem (1929-43, Lance Corporal with Certificate A): I entered the Corps with great
enthusiasm, as well as bugling in the Corps of Drums under Sergeant Cunliffe’s tuition.
Apart from painting the Hill house exterior in Market Place, in lieu of games, I spent most of
my games time in labouring, learning to drive a tractor in the process, and repairing the
thatch on the Pavilion roof. Many an afternoon, however, I just climbed into the Hill’s son’s
bedroom (he was serving in the Navy) via my painter’s ladder and spent the time reading
books. Four of us occupied ourselves with making what I now know to be pipe bombs; Colin
made the gun cotton while John got the casings made up – gas pipe, tapped with threads to
hold the plug ends. We detonated the bombs electronically in Catmos Park, and were well
away before the police answered the distress calls. Then we took to collecting old iron,
ostensibly for the war effort; in fact, the money was very useful, that is until our main dealer
began to get cold feet when he received visits from the police who demanded our names,
addresses, and source of the metals. Next we constructed an underground headquarters in
Catmos Park; it was down by the stream and very cunningly camouflaged. Our mining
clothes and tools were transported to and fro hidden in John’s wheelchair, he having
sustained broken ankles in a Corps gliding accident. One night a German bomber was
brought down near Oakham, and under the guise of ARP messengers on our bikes, we four
set off and during the night netted a beautiful Irvine silk, British made, pre-war parachute,
and John returned triumphant with a complete machine gun, unshipped from the nose of the
aircraft. But somebody squealed, and the spoils of war were removed by a constable on the
understanding that upon his signature they would be returned after the war. One morning the
Chief Constable harangued the whole school, asking us to return sundry road signs, public
notices, etc., collected as souvenirs to adorn study walls, and an amnesty was declared.
Within twenty-four hours two heaps, each five foot tall, accumulated outside Wharflands and
School House, the signs were returned to their owners, and (of course) the collecting began
all over again.
The OTC / JTC parading up Cemetery Road (now Kilburn Road) in the war years
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Summer Term 1940 (Vol LV):
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THE JUNIOR TRAINING CORPS 1940-48
Commanding Officers
*Captain G. Talbot Griffith (1940-43)
*Captain, then Major, then Lieutenant Colonel H.J. Cox (1944-48)
Regimental Sergeant Majors
RSM R.B. Brown (Army Physical Training Corps) (1940)
Officers
*Lieutenant H.J. Cox
*Flying Officer J. Moore, ATC
Acting Flying Officer R.A. Smith, ATC
*Captain A.R. Foreman
*Major J.R. Hughes
PSI / SSI
Sergeant Perkins (1937-41)
Warrant Officer 2 R. Brown (1946)
Helpers
*Mr. E.C. Pickering-Clarke (1939-40)
*Mr. F.G. Hiscocks (1941-45)
Mr. Ransford (1941-45)
*Mr. R.G. Henton (1947)
Major K.R. Bowes (1947-52)
[*Signifies Member of Staff]
Annual Camps
None were held in the War Years, nor immediately afterwards, and so there was just one such summer
camp in the years of the JTC
1948 Gandale
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The Junior Training Corps 1940-48
Inspecting Officers
1941 Brigadier General R.S. Abbott, CIE, MC
1944 Colonel A.A.E. Chitty, DSO
1945 Colonel A.A.E. Chitty, DSO
1946 Colonel A.A.E. Chitty, DSP
1947 & 1948 Brigadier General G.S. Knight, DSO
Non-Commissioned Officers
[The list of Non-Commissioned Officers is dependent on what can be gleaned from The Oakhamian,
since full list have not been preserved within the TTC; apologies are given for errors.]
1940: Cadet Sergeant Majors G.V.Smith, A.R. Grier; Sergeant A.H. Cunliffe (Drum Major),
R.B. Rook, E.A. Cowell, R.K. Sprigg, C.I. Tighe, E.R. Cook, A.J. Dalton, D.C. Sansom;
Corporals C.I. Tighe, R.J. Aspinal, J.E. Stevenson, T.S. Atkins, J.L. Kirby, D.K. Briggs, R.A.
Chettle; Lance Corporals J.G.B. Bayles, J.S. Danby, J.N. Pettifor, D.H.L. Young, W.J.Watts,
R.D.G. Barnes , J.C. Guttridge
1941: (JTC) Cadet Sergeant Majors J.C.Dalton, J.L. Kirby; Sergeants R.B. Rook (Drum
Major), T.S. Atkins, D.K. Briggs, R.A. Chettle, K.J.T. Witter, N. Morris; Corporals J.G.B.
Bayles, J.N. Pettifor, R.G. Barnes, J.C. Richardson, W.S. Walker, J.M. O’Hagan, E.D. Palmer, P.
Baxter, J.C.H. Ball; Lance Corporals C.J.W. Charters, J.A. Good, J.H. Clough, G.H. Bradley, P.
Ellingworth, D.R. Ellis, R.G. Kendall, J.H.R. Oldham, G.J. Parsonson, W.O. Trought, T.C.
Woolston; (ATC) Flight Sergeants D.C. Sansom, R.P.R. Roe; Corporals J.G.B. Bayles, L.O.
Illsley, J.J. Pearce
1942: (JTC) Cadet Sergeant Majors J.L. Kirby, W.O. Trought; Company Quarter Master
Sergeant W.S. Walker; Sergeants R.A. Chettle (Drum Major), P.H. Morris, J.C. Richardson,
E.D. Palmer, K.J.T. Witter, C.J.W. Charters, G.H. Bradley, P. Ellingworth, D.R. Ellis; Corporals
R.P.R. Roe, J.C.H. Ball, A.J. Moyes, C.S. Reinhardt; Lance Corporals T. Woolston, J.B.
Mason, A.C.S. Hawes, J.R. Hack, J.L. Attenborough, K.D. Barnes, D.T.C. Gardner, J. Glover,
W.N. Lea, J.M. Grice, G.E. Isles (Drum Corporal), D.E. Wakem
(ATC) Flight Sergeants R.P.R. Roe, L.O. Illsley, J.D.H. Pearce; Sergeants Brunner, G.H.
Bradley; Corporals E.F.F. Budworth, P.D. Taylor
1943: (JTC) Cadet Sergeant Majors W.O. Trought, P. Ellingworth, A.J. Moyes; Company
Quarter Master Sergeants W.N. Lea, W.N. Saxby; Sergeants C.S. Reinhardt, A.C.S. Hawes
(Drum Major), C.S.E. Johnson, G.E. Isles (Drum Major), G.H. Bradley, D.R. Ellis, J. Glover,
G.B.J. Cruickshank, N.L. Palmer, G.T.C. Gardner; Corporals R.W. Barnes, D.E.E. Leighton
(Drum Corporal); Lance Corporals C.S.E. Johnson, W.N. Saxby, T.H.M. Stafford, N.L. Palmer,
P.H. Goldsmith, J.J. Pearce, D.J. Tozer, L. Churchouse, P.N. Wright, E.B. Franks, D.A.A. Lane,
T.D. Manby, E.J.R. Whittle, G.F. Wilson
(ATC) Flight Sergeants Brunner, G.H. Bradley, G.W.H. Higgs; Sergeants E.F.F. Budworth,
P.D. Taylor; Corporals Proudman, E. McCarthy, R.D. Roper, Shepherd, E.J.B. Simpson, Clarke
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1944: (JTC) Cadet Sergeant Majors A.J. Moyes, W.N. Saxby, D.A.A. Lane; Company
Quarter Master Sergeants W.N. Saxby, T.D. Manly; Sergeants G.B.J. Cruickshank, N.L.
Palmer, C.S.E. Johnson, P.N. Wright (Drum Major), K.D. Barnes, D.J. Tozer, J. Glover, E.J.R.
Whittle, D.V. Treanor; Corporals G.F. Wilson, J.D. Witter, P. Newell, K.J. Chettle, T.D.G.
Merry; Lance Corporals L. Churchouse, D.C. Stanton, K.M. Whitlock
(ATC) Flight Sergeants G.W.H. Higgs, Cotter; Sergeants Shepherd, T.H.M. Stafford, A.T.
Bradley; Corporals Lamin, W.M. West, P.R.H. Webb, J. Noton, P.G. Meakin
1945: (JTC) Cadet Sergeant Major D.A.A. Lane; Company Quarter Master Sergeants J.D.
Witter, K.J. Chettle; Sergeants D.V. Treanor, G.F. Wilson, K.M. Whitlock, E.J.R. Whittle, D.B.
Holyoake (Drum Major), C.R. Jacobs, J.G. Cooper, P.A.H. Mockford; Corporals Hey (i/c
Signals), G.N. Iley, J.A.S. Strickland, J.M. Sutton, David Ridgway, J. Clark-Turner, J.A. Sabin, P.
Newell; Lance Corporals R.W. Mason, A.C.S. Ross, G.E. Cooper, J.R. Ainsworth, G.D.
Inglesant (Quarter Master Storeman), B.W.R. Tuckett, H.R. Provis, M.J.W. Churchouse, N.
Bateson, J.D. Mitson, J.G. Wallis, J.W. White, D.S. Grice, N.W. Nyilassy, M.J. Norris, A.H.
Richardson (Armourer), C.R. Catto (MT Storeman), D.G. Long, J.G.J. Glenn, B.R. Steele, A.S.G.
Blackmore, P.S.T. Hall, D.S. Hill
(ATC) Flight Sergeants R.M. Bradley, E.W. Swinton; Sergeants J. Noton, P.G. Meakin, P.
Newell, R.N. Pool; Corporals J.W.M.B. Bailey, F.C. Towns
1946: Cadet Sergeant Majors K.J. Chettle, D. Ridgway, M.J.W. Churchouse; Company Quarter
Master Sergeants D. Ridgway, D.A. Snow (Drum Major); Sergeants J.G. Cooper, P.A.H. Mockford,
A.J.S. Strickland, D.B. Holyoake (Drum Major), J.M. Sutton, J. Clark-Turner, R.N. Pool, P.S.T. Hall,
N. Bateson, B.R. Steele, J.D. Mitson, D.S. Grice; Corporals A.S.G. Blackmore, J.G. Wallis, A.H.
Richardson, C.R. Catto, D.S. Hill, J.A. Sabin, G.D. Inglesant, M.J. Norris, D.G. Long, J.G.J. Glenn,
T.G. Green, B.R.A. Dudley, G.K. Richardson, J.M. Wright, W.J.S. Wright, I.F. Harrison, J.C. Treen;
Lance Corporals D.A. Snow (QM Storeman), R.J.F. Taylor, D.A. Tookey, A.H. Richardson, M.J.
Norris, R.T. Baines, N.J. Clark, A.J. Collin, Cox, H.J. Davis, G.C. Fowler, J.S. Griffin, P.G. Harrison,
D.P.R. James, A.J. Palmer, M.W. Simms-Reeve, G.R. Snailham, K.D. Speight, P.M.H. Stovin, J.
Tozer, T.G. Treanor, W.W.P. Bunney, P.L. Chettle, A.S.D. Day, D.A. Sturgess
1947: Cadet Sergeant Majors M.J.W. Churchouse, P.S.T. Hall, G.R. Snailham; Company
Quartermaster Sergeants D.A. Snow (Drum Major), T.G. Treanor; Sergeants W.J.S. Wright, G.K.
Richardson, R.N. Pool, J.D. Mitson, B.R. Steele, C.W. Bastow, R.T. Baines, R.A. Cox; Corporals
D.P.R. James, B.R.A. Dudley, G.H. Culverwell, K.D. Speight, N.L. Palmer, J.M. Overton, R.D.
Green, B.W. Rowbotham (Drum Major), A.S.D. Day; Lance Corporals P.M.H. Stovin, A.J. Palmer,
J. Tozer, P.L. Chettle, T.W. Badgery, G.H. Culverwell, J.L. Forryan, M.H.R. Glover, B.C. Harper,
A.V.P. Hughes, M.B. Jenkins, N.B. Knocker, J.P.M. McLellan, G.C. Fowler, J.S. Griffin, G.C.
Turner, J.L.L.D. Bernstein, R.J.D. Oldershaw, A.J. Mason, J.B. Scott, P.E. Stoddard, H.E. van Oppen,
P.F. Willis, A.W.B. Simpson, B.J. Thake, F.E. Bagley, J.P.M. McLellan, J.D. Booth, B.H. Banister,
J.D. Lawrence, D.H. Atkin, G.T. Nicoll, N.J.E. Crawley
1948: Cadet Sergeant Major G.R. Snailham; Company Quarter Master Sergeant Baines;
Sergeants M.H.R. Glover, M.W. Simms-Reeve, J.L. Forryan, R.D. Green; Corporals N.B. Knocker,
B.W. Rowbotham, J.L.L.D. Bernstein, R.J.D. Oldershaw, P.E. Stoddard, P.F. Willis, J.P.M.
McLellan, J.D. Booth, B.H. Banister, J.D. Lawrence, D.H. Atkin, B.C. Harper, J.M. Overton; Lance
Corporals T.W. Badgery, F.E. Bagley, J. Lambert, G.T. Nicoll, J.B. Scott
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Spring Term 1941 (Vol LV):
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208
209
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211
212
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214
The JTC parading down Cemetery (now Kilburn) Road during the War
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216
217
The JTC marching down the High Street in 1944,
with the salute being taken on the steps of the Cinema, now demolished
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SECOND WORLD WAR ROLL of HONOUR
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Drum Major D.A. Snow in 1946
Wharflands House Platoon in 1946, led by Sergeant Cooper
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Spring Term 1947 (Vol LX1):
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Summer Term 1947 (Vol LV1):
231
Winter Term 1947 (Vol LV11):
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Spring Term 1948 (Vol LX111):
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Summer Term 1948 (Vol LX111):
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Military Old Oakhamians
NOTABLE MILITARY OLD OAKHAMIANS
(one Star Flag Rank or above)
(for full details, see companion volume Notable Old Oakhamians)
Brown, Harold Arthur (1889-93) (Vice-Admiral, KCB, CBE)
Crwys-Williams, David Owen (1952-58) (Air Vice-Marshal, CB)
Everett, Douglas Henry (1910-13) (Rear Admiral, CB, CBE, DSO)
Field, George Thomas (1837-39) (Lieutenant General)
Goode, George Henry Wallace (1925-31) (Brigadier, CBE, DSO)
Gordon, Harold Somerville (1906-12) (Brigadier, OBE)
Isaac, Robert Arthur (1944-50) (Rear Admiral, CB)
Marson, John (1921-24) (Air Vice-Marshal, CB, CBE)
Parker, Henry Wise (1884-88) (Admiral, CB, CMG)
Pollard, Anthony John Griffen (1950-55) (Major General, CB, CBE, OStJ, DL)
Thomson, Jonathan James (1958-63) (Brigadier, CBE, QGM)
Walker, Thomas Geoffrey (1927-31) (Brigadier, MBE)
Whalley, Simon David (1967-72) (Commodore, CBE)
Wiener, Harry Dan Leigh (1884) (Chaplain-in-Chief to RAF, CBE)
Woodhouse, Francis Victor Reginald (1912-15) (Brigadier, Indian Army)
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MILITARY OLD OAKHAMIANS
An incomplete list of those Old Oakhamians known to have pursued a military career, other
than being called up or volunteering in wartime or for National Service, on leaving school,
either short or long term; serviced in the Territorial Army, or equivalent, is not included;
additions – particularly in respect to final rank achieved and any decorations awarded received gratefully by the author at [email protected]
[For those known to have served in a Theatre of War, either in the professional forces or through conscription or
National Service, see companion volume Old Oakhamian Military War Service]
Royal Navy
RNC Dartmouth
J.M.A. Ennion (1922-26) (Commander)
D.H. Everett, DSO, CB, CBE (1910-13) (Rear-Admiral)
N.J. Hennell (1959-67) (Lieutenant)
J.S. de M. Hill, DSC (1930-34) (Lieutenant Commander)
C.J.C. Hutchinson (1973-78)
R.A. Isaac, CB (1944-50) (Engineering Rear Admiral)
O.D.P. Lea (1996-2001) (Midshipman)
A.M.B. Macdonald (1979-84) (Lieutenant)
S.W. Marlow (1970-77) (Sub-Lieutenant)
J.P.A. Purdy (1940-45) (Lieutenant Commander)
J.C. Pyatt (1959-64)
M.F. Shouler (1991-98) (Submariner)
S.D. Whalley, CBE (1967-72) (Commodore)
RNC Devonport
H.A. Brown (1889-1893) (Engineer Vice-Admiral)
RN Engine Room Apprentices School
W.H. Kingswood (1912-16) (Commander)
RN Engineering College
E.W. Burgis (1931-35) (Lieutenant Commander)
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RNC Greenwich
C.P. Belton (1947-49) (Sub-Lieutenant RN)
R.A. Isaac, CB (1944-50) (Engineering Rear Admiral)
RNC Keyham
A.E. Hargrave (1918-22) (Lieutenant Commander)
J.E. Stevenson (1935-40) (Engineering Lieutenant)
Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (Lymstone)
J.H. Fisher (1949-57) Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Marines)
J.A. Good (1938-41) (Captain, Royal Marines)
S.J. Sutton (1984-91) (Lieutenant, Royal Marines)
J.J. Thomson, CBE, QGM (1964-66) (Brigadier, Royal Marines)
Other (Training Establishment unknown)
P.H. Briscoe (1959-62) (Royal Corps of Naval Constructors)
R.N. Jackson (18xx-18xx) (Naval Chaplain)
Army
RMC / RMA Sandhurst
C.E.R. Albrecht (1903-1912) (Second Lieutenant, South Lancashire Fusiliers)
A.D.R. Aldred (1896-1901) (Captain, Royal Engineers)
C.F. Atter (1910-14) (Lieutenant, Leicestershire Regiment)
C.P.A.E. Bairsto (1996-2001) (Captain, Royal Gurkha Rifles)
A.C. Balmford (1975-80)
S.B. Bradfield (1934-38) (Captain, Acting Major, Leicestershire Regiment)
J.W.N. Bramsdon (1921-23) (Second Lieutenant, Leicestershire Regiment)
J.H. Brewill (1932-37) (Major, Royal Leicestershire Regiment)
K.D. Briggs (1912-15) (Lieutenant, East Yorkshire Regiment, Royal Flying Corps)
C.M. Broadbent (1967-74) (Commissioned, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers)
M.P. Callun (1968-75) (Captain, REME)
R.H. Churchill (1926-30) (Lieutenant Colonel, 9th Jat Regiment, Indian Army)
238
J. Clark-Turner (1939-46) Commissioned to Royal Northumberland Fusiliers)
J.F. Codd (1946-54) (Colonel, Royal Engineers)
G.C. Coleman (1913-xx) (Lieutenant, Leicestershire Regiment)
A.M. (Alexandra) Cooper (1992-94) (Captain, Royal Engineers)
F.R.S. Cosens, DSO, OB (1910-18) (Colonel, Gurkha Regiment)
P.S. Crosse (1961-64)
B.N. Crumbie (1944-52) (Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Leicestershire Regiment)
P.E.N. Dickson (1933-37) (Major, 14th Punjab, Indian Army / RAOC)
M.P. Dodworth (1969-77) (Captain, 14/20 King’s Hussars)
J.W. Easson (1954-59) (Commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals)
M.H.C. France (1922-30) (Lieutenant Colonel Frontier Force Rifles, India Army; Wing Commander RAF
Regiment)
M.H.R. Glover (formerly Armstrong) (1943-48) (Major, Royal Engineers)
H.S. Gordon, OBE (1906-12) (Brigadier General, Gurkha Rifles)
H.H. Gough (1930-35) (Captain, Royal Irish Fusiliers)
H.B. Harpham (1926-36) (Lieutenant Colonel 5/14 Punjab, India Army and Royal Artillery)
J.A. Heptinstall (1966-71) (Captain, Green Howards)
J.M. Heron (1969-74) (Colonel, Royal Engineers)
A.G.S. Heycock (1888-1894) (Captain, Royal Marines Light Infantry)
D.S. Hill (1942-46) (Commissioned into Royal Army Service Corps)
A.L. Hitt (1913-xx) (Second Lieutenant, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry)
H.C. Hope-Murray (1915-17) (Captain, 8th Hussars)
D.W. James (1952-61) (Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Leicestershire / Royal Anglian Regiment)
W.H.D. Jameson (2002-210)
N.A. Johnson (1983-88) (Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Anglian Regiment)
L.A. Kingham (1910-15) (Second Lieutenant, Royal Berkshire Regiment)
M.J. Kingham, OBE (1910-18) (Commissioned)
M.E. Lane (1966-73) (Commissioned, Royal Anglian Regiment)
J.D. Lawrence (1942-50) (Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Artillery
B.S. Lee (1931-38) (Major, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment / Oman Scouts)
239
H.C. Metcalfe, DSO, DL (1880-81) (Colonel, Northamptonshire Regiment)
E.A. Mitchell (1908-12) (Second Lieutenant, South Lancashire Regiment)
P.J.N. Molesworth (1967-75) (Captain, Green Howards)
H.B. Norcott (1907-xx) (Lieutenant Colonel, Rifle Brigade, India Army)
R. Osborne (19xx-93)
A. Peters (1984-89)
L. Playfair (1905-10) (Second Lieutenant, Royal Scots Regiment & Royal Flying Corps)
S.R. Quartley ((1953-58)
R.G.O. Randell (1959-63)
C.P.W. Robinson (1913-16) (Captain, Sikh Regiment, India Army)
A.C.S. Ross (1941-45) (Brigadier General, Royal Engineers)
J.T.T. Ross (1976-79) (Captain, Royal Artillery)
G.P. Saunders, DSO, OBE (1890-97) (Brigadier General, Gurkha Rifles, India Army)
C.G.O. Scampton (1910-13)
C.M.H. Shale (1965-73) (Commissioned, 17/21 Lancers)
C.C. Sills (1905-12) (Second Lieutenant, South Wales Borderers)
M.W. Simms-Reeve (1941-48) (Captain, Royal Signals)
C.A.C. Sinker, DSO (1917-23) (Lieutenant Colonel, Lincolnshire Regiment)
T.F.E. Stanhope (1910-13) (Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade)
G.S. Stapleton (1922-24) (Commissioned into Lincolnshire Regiment)
P.E. Stoddard (1944-49) (Captain, Royal Army Pay Corps)
M.G. Sutton (1984-89) (Captain, Gurkha Regiment)
S.W. Swindells (1953-56) (Major, Royal Leicestershire Regiment / RASC / Oman Scouts)
A.E. Taverner (1909-15) (Second Lieutenant, King’s Own Shropshire Light Infantry)
R.L. Taverner, CBE (1910-16) (Brigadier General)
J.R. Towns (1958-66) (Lieutenant, Royal Anglian Regiment)
H.E. van Oppen, BEM (1945-48) (1st Tank Regiment, Northern Rhodesian Army, Congo Mercenary Forces
R.W. Profit (1986-92) (Captain, Royal Engineers)
G.H.E. Vidler (1910-14) (Lieutenant, Wiltshire Regiment)
N.J. Waistell (1964-68) (Lieutenant, Prince of Wales Own Tegiment)
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H.A.V. Wait (1910-15) (Lieutenant, Royal Berkshire Regiment)
J.G. Wallis (1942-46)
H.F. Warden, DSO (1882-85) (Lieutenant Colonel, The Queen’s Regiment)
D.J.K. Webb (1980-86) (Captain, Royal Irish Hussars)
M.S. Wildbur (1956-63) (Captain, Queen’s Lancashire Regiment / Major, REME)
M.J.H. Williams (1942-50) (Captain, Royal Signals)
C.O.L. Wragg (1994-2001) (Captain, Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment)
J.C. Wrighton (1941-52) (Lieutenant, Royal Leicestershire Regiment)
RMC Shrivenham
M.P. Callun (1968-75) (Captain, REME)
J.M. Heron (1969-74) (Colonel, Royal Engineers)
J.D. Isaac (1941-46) (Major, Royal Engineers)
RMC Woolwich
J.E.N. Albrecht (1908-1914) (Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery)
T.P. Cather (1865-1868)
G.T. Field (1837-1839) (Lieutenant General, Royal Artillery)
D.M.J. Murray (1913-17) (Major, Royal Engineers)
R.D. Wright (1968-75) (Royal Artillery)
Mons Officer Cadet School
J.B. Bent (1940-48) (Royal Artillery)
I.K. Starkey (1958-65) (Captain, Royal Engineers)
J.P. Theodorson (1960-63) (Commissioned, Royal Signals)
M.J.H. Williams (1942-50) (Captain, Royal Signals)
Wellington Cadet Military College (India)
J.G.I. Innes (1910-18) (Lieutenant Colonel, Punjabi Regiment, India Army)
W.H. Agar (1888-92) (Trooper, Imperial Light Horse / Captain, Scottish Rifles)
R.M. Armstrong (1938-41) (Captain, Royal Corps of Signals)
R.W. Baker (1874-xx) (Lance Sergeant, Leicester Imperial Yeomanry)
241
G. Barnett, MC, OBE (1895-1904) (Commissioned, Army Service Corps / Colonel, Royal Army Veterinary
Corps)
H.A. Bates (1888-91) (Corporal, Cape Mounted Rifles)
H.V. Blackstone (1890-93) (Lincolnshire Volunteers)
H.R. Blackwell (1894-98) Sergeant, Imperial Light Horse)
E.C. Bosanquet (1901-02) (Commissioned, Imperial Light Horse)
Sir H. Bryan, KBE, CMG, DSO (Major, Manchester Regiment / Colonel Northumberland Fusiliers)
L.A. Cooke (1956-61)
E.K. Cordeaux (1881-84) (Captain, Lincolnshire Regiment)
B. Dalton (1883-86) (18th Hussars)
C.J. Dawson (1886-90)
M.F. Day, MC (Cambridge University Volunteers / Commissioned Yorkshire Light Infantry)
G. Dickinson (1882-85) (Sergeant, Leicestershire Imperial Yeomanry)
M.G. Edward (1990-95) (Major, Royal Horse Artillery)
S.C. Feek (1988-96)
C.E. Fishbourne (1879-86) (Major, Northern Fusiliers)
V.H.W. Forster (1883-85) (Rhodesian Horse)
W.A. Fosbrooke (1885-87) (Lieutenant, Imperial Yeomanry)
T. Gibson (1895-xxx) (Army Surgeon)
W. Gibson (1880-84) (Surgeon Captain, West Australian Imperial Mounted Infantry)
O. Gould (1894-97) (Commissioned, Cape Mounted Police)
J.P.A. Green (1996-2006) (Lieutenant, Scots Guards)
C.H. Grey (Sergeant, South African Infantry)
A.W.A. Griffiths, MBE (1982-87) (Lieutenant Colonel, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders / Royal Regiment
of Scotland)
F.J.V. Guy (Medical, Van Allen’s Field Hospital)
R.D. Hardy (1890-93) (Imperial Yeomanry)
H.H. Hardman (1890-93) (County of London Yeomanry)
A. Hesilridge (18xx-18xx) (Lieutenant, Nottingham Regiment of Foot)
C.O. Hilditch (1926-19xx) (Major, Royal Welch Fusiliers / RAC)
M.E. Ives (1947-55) (Major, Royal Artillery)
242
F.A. Jacques (1880-81) (Lieutenant Colonel, 14th Sikhs)
H.A. Jerwood (1888-97) (Army Chaplain, Cambridge University Volunteers)
I.G. Jessop, MC (1932-35) (Major, Royal Leicestershire Regiment)
A.R. Kirby (1894-95) (Trooper, Imperial Yeomanry)
R.H. Kirby (1894-95) (Trooper, Imperial Yeomanry)
N.B. Knocker (1944-46) (Colonel, Royal Sussex Regiment)
J.R. Knowles (1989-96) (Staff Sergeant, 9/12 Royal lancers)
N.L. Lemon, MBE (1968-75) (Warrant Officer Class 1, Intelligence Corps)
R.A.H. Nunneley (1960-65) (Colonel, Black Watch)
R.H. Palmer (1884-85) (Corporal, Imperial Yeomanry)
C.E. Parr (1892-1900) (Trooper, Imperial Yeomanry)
R.H. Pattinson (1919-25) (Chaplain, Durham Light Infantry)
J. Richardson (1888-93) (Lincolnshire Volunteers)
F.M. Roberts (1892-93) (Imperial Yeomanry)
F.W. Robinson (1839-44) (Ensign, Bengal Native Infantry, Indian Army)
J.W.T. Scott (1893-99) (Sergeant, Natal Mounted Police / Staff Sergeant, Royal Engineers)
D.H.K.T. Sharp (1935-39) (Major, RASC)
E. Sills (1889-96) (Corporal, Imperial Yeomanry)
C.W. Simmonds (1876-81)
H.W. Simmonds (1880-81) (Royal Welch Fusiliers)
A.K. Skevington (1885-87) (Bechuanaland Border Police)
Sir J.O. Skevington, KCVO (1888-90) (Army Surgeon)
C.J. Slade (1879-84) (lieutenant, Volunteer Company of Manchester)
A.L.H. Smith (1886-89) (Surgeon, South African Field Force)
K.G. (Karen) Smith (1977-80) (Major, WRAC, Scottish Transport Regiment)
C.T. Standley (1989-97) (Captain, Royal Anglian Regiment)
G.H.S. Steer (1890-96) (Private, Imperial Yeomanry / Commissioned, Liverpool King’s Regiment)
G.H.S. Taylor (1888-89) (Sadler, Imperial Yeomanry)
L.A. (Louisa) Turney (1991-96) (Commissioned, RAMC)
E.G.S. Walker, MC (Captain, General List)
243
B.H. Walsgrove (1980-87) (Captain, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment)
C.H. Willan (1888-93) (Border Mounted Rifles)
G.T. Willan, DSO (1886-93) (Medical Officer, 17th Lancers / Lieutenant Colonel RAMC)
J. Wilson (1910-17) (Lieutenant Colonel, Chindits, Indian Army)
J.B. Wood (1888-93) (Trooper, Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts)
A.E. Wright (1881-82) (Lincolnshire Regiment / Lieutenant Colonel RAC)
Royal Air Force
RAF Cranwell
A.K. Beanland (1971-78) (Pilot Officer)
J.H.M. Blake, MBE (1930-37) (Wing Commander)
R.M. Bradley (1941-45) (Flight Lieutenant, Royal Canadian Air Force)
I.S. Cartwright-Terry (1962-68) (Flight Lieutenant)
L.G.G. Cartwright-Terry, MBE (1962-66) (Squadron Leader)
S.H.P. Castling (1965-72) (Flight Lieutenant)
O.M. Cheverton (1997-2004) (Pilot Officer)
D.C. Coombes (1971-78) (Pilot Officer)
D.O. Crwys-Williams, CB (1952-58) (Air Vice-Marshal)
C.H. Devonshire (1962-69)
J.A. Dillon (1959-62) (Navigator)
D.J. Eayrs, CB, CB, F (1920-26) (Group Captain)
F.D.A. Harlow (1954-63) (Flying Officer, Transport Command)
V.B. Howells (1949-56) (Squadron Leader)
C.H. Lawrence, MBE (1962-68) (Squadron Leader)
R.H. Lawrence (1962-66) (Pilot Officer)
P.D. Luker (1962-66)
J. Marson, CB, CBE (1921-24) (Air Vice-Marshal)
R.J. Offord (1970-78) (Flight Lieutenant)
D.M. Old (1965-70) (Flight Lieutenant)
J.G. Perryman (1971-78) (Pilot Officer)
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E.W. Richards (1970-77) (Flying Officer)
C.M. Thorpe (1928-33) (Corporal)
RAF Henlow
C.P. Chaplin (1967-72) (Flying Officer)
B.L. Routledge ((1962-69)
J.H. Chapman (1952-60) (Air Traffic Control)
N.R. Griffiths (1983-88) (Wing Commander)
T.B. Marson, MBE (1880-1958) (Wing Commander)
M.A.P. Mason (1996-98) (Pilot Officer)
245
At its inception, the Oakham Contingent was affiliated to the Leicestershire Regiment, which became the Royal
Leicestershire Regiment at the end of the Second World War, and many Old Oakhamians have served under its
colours, either as professional soldiers or as a result of call-up during war or on National Service. In 1929 the
Contingent was granted permission to wear the Leicestershire Tiger as its cap badge and to march past to one of
the Regimental marches. In 1947 the Contingent was granted the privilege of wearing collar badges – a Rutland
horseshoe encircling a small sprig of oak leaves and an acorn above a silver scroll inscribed Oakham.
The Oakhamian reported in the Summer Term 1938 edition that Major-General Sir Edward M. Woodward,
KCMG, CB, Colonel of the Leicestershire Regiment, informs us that, by a recent decision of the War Office, the
names of Uppingham School OTC and Oakham School OTC are to be shown in the Army List as affiliated units,
under the battle honours of the Regiment.
With the amalgamation of regiments, the Royal Leicestershire Regiment became part of the Royal Anglian
Regiment, to which the Contingent is now affiliated.
Royal Navy and Royal Air Force Sections, in the times of their existence, have forged separate links with local
co-operative military bases (e.g. RAF Cottesmore, RAF North Luffenham).
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Booklet printed in Spring 2013 by The Reprographics Department of Oakham School
Edition 2013/002

OTC and JTC at Oakham School – 1910

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