Cranleigh memories of VE Day
On VE Day 75 years ago celebrations were held all over the country and Cranleigh was no exception […]
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Features
A Norwegian hero
The last Cranleighan to die before VE Day was Olav Ringdal, who was member of the Norwegian resistance shot by the Germans in the final weeks of the war […]
The silent Armistice
A look back to 1918 when the Spanish Flu pandemic caused Cranleigh to send all boys home early […]
SPORT ROUND-UP – March 2020
A quick look at what’s been happening with Old Cranleighans in the sporting world over the last four months […]
SPORT ROUND-UP – OCTOBER 2019
A quick look at what’s been happening with Old Cranleighans in the sporting world over the last three months […]
Running for awareness
There are at least six Year of 2017 leavers running in the 2020 London Marathon which is amazing from a single year group. Among these is Lewis Bedford (Cubitt 2017) […]
The last hurrahs
In the weeks after the outbreak of World War Two the OCHC and OCRFC manfully – but briefly – tried to continue […]
A tragic and futile incident
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’
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
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 […]