Features

A tragic and futile incident

Martin | June 5, 2019 | Features, History

In the early morning of June 6th 1944, Private Philip Sargent (1&4 South 1938) became one of over 4000 Allied troops to be killed on D-Day. He was 24 years old and a committed pacifist […]

‘We knew the invasion was about to begin’

Martin | June 5, 2019 | Features, History

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 […]

D-Day forty years on

Martin | June 5, 2019 | Features, History

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 […]

“A really gentle walk”

Martin | May 13, 2019 | Features

OC Society chairman Martin Williamson and his wife, Mel, joined Nick Meyer for two days of his Cornish Coastal Challenge … […]

Alone and forgotten

Martin | November 11, 2018 | Features

John Walker is not commemorated on any memorial. He fought in the war and died in 1973 aged 77. The bare facts hide a tragic story […]

On November 11, 1918, 2738 men were killed (including 863 from Britain and the Commonwealth). One of those was 2nd Lieutenant Ralph Piggott Whittington-Ince (1&4 South 1915) of the 11th Battalion of the East Yorkshires. […]

The silent Armistice

Martin | November 7, 2018 | Features

As the country celebrated the Armistice on November 11 1918, all was quiet at Cranleigh where the boys had been sent home after the School was overwhelmed by Spanish flu […]

The origins of the Gower Club

Martin | October 28, 2018 | Features

When Charles Gower, the man known as the architect of Cranleigh rugby, died in 1963, a group of Old Cranleighans decided something needed to be done to commemorate all he had done. And so the Gower Club, which plays an annual match against the 1st XV, was formed […]

And now for something completely different …

Martin | October 16, 2018 | Features

Among all the hullabaloo surrounding the 60th anniversary of Blue Peter, one of the longest-serving – and original – presenters, Christopher Trace (East 1959) barely gets a passing mention […]