Sports Round-Up – September 2024
A Paralympic silver medal for Greg Slade, Ollie Pope named England captain for the Test series v Sri Lanka, and Olympic appearances in Paris for Izzy Petter and Will Calnan […]
Author: Martin
D-Day forty years on
On June 6, 1984, Cranleigh held a parade to mark the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Alan Smith wrote about it in that year’s Cranleighan […]
‘We knew the invasion was about to begin’
While much has been written about the secrecy that surrounded the D-Day landings, the boys at Cranleigh were among the first in the country to know the invasion had started on June 6, 1944 […]
A tragic and futile incident
Much will be written in the coming days about those involved in the D-Day landings. Among the 1,449 British combatants who died on June 6th 1944 few stories are quite as sad as that of 24-year-old Private Philip Sargent […]
Sports round-up – May 2024
A round-up of the last few months of OC sport with success at Harlequins and a century of international caps for Izzy Petter […]
OCs reach Halford Hewitt semi-finals
We are pleased to report on an outstandingly successful 2024 Halford Hewitt for the Old Cranleighans […]
Juurnee
During her time at Cranleigh Rachel Crampton (West 2004) made friends for life […]
OC Football up and running
The revival of the Old Cranleigh Football Club got underway when they beat Barnes 2-1 on a grey Sunday morning in November […]
Pope’s standout performance
Ollie Pope’s match-winning innings in the 1st Test v India at Hyderabad attracted praise from some of cricket’s leading commentators and former players […]
OC Football returns with a win
It was a frosty morning for the restart of the OCFC after almost two decades in hibernation, and they returned with a 2-1 win at Barnes […]