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 […]
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Features
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 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 […]