The last hurrahs
In the weeks after the outbreak of World War Two the OCHC and OCRFC manfully – but briefly – tried to continue […]
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Features
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 […]
“A really gentle walk”
OC Society chairman Martin Williamson and his wife, Mel, joined Nick Meyer for two days of his Cornish Coastal Challenge … […]
Alone and forgotten
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 […]
The final sacrifice
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 origins of the Gower Club
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 …
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 […]
The weekend Cranleigh flooded
In September 1968, flash floods left Cranleigh High Street underwater and severely disrupted the beginning of the 1968 Michaelmas Term […]