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Preston Memorial: Corporal Robert Sharp, Lawrence Street, Fulwood; (Late) Chaddock Street, Preston. Agricultural Student. 1st South African Infantry. Corporal 7699. Died 20th September 1917, Flanders. He went to South Africa in 1913 as an Agricultural Student. Joined the 8th Mounted Rifles at the outbreak of war. Was six months a prisoner of war, released on the surrender to General Botha. He enlisted and was sent to Flanders. Mrs A Sharp (Mother). Smethurst, Fredd H Father - Joseph H Smethurst, Garstang Road, xxxx Assistant Borough Surveyor. Fredd aged 9, born 1895. Xxxxx PGS 31st January 1905. Family and School details added.
Henry aged 15, born 1889. Xxxxx PGS 12th September 1904. Family and School details added.
See Additional List One and Main List. Wallwork, John 1st/10th Middlesex, Regimental Number 1426, Private. Royal Engineers, Number 574202. Middlesex Regiment, Number 290174. Serving in the Bay of Bengal from 26th September 1915. Woods, George Father - George Woods, 75 Chorley Road, Walton-le-Dale, Preston. Plumber, Journeyman. George born 24th February 1896. St Matthew’s School. PGS 13th September 1909 to 26th July 1913. Oxford Junior Locals 1st Class Honours, 58th out of 6,921 candidates, 1912. Passed Spoken French. Form prize, Upper IV. Preliminary Teachers Examination Parts 1 and 2 1913. School Prize for History. School Football Vice Captain, 1912-13 Season. First XI centre forward, the cleverest forward in the team, fast and a good marksman. Sticks to the ball too long and curves and circles in a bewildering manner. Took second place in the Gymnastic Competition, 1913. Miller, H12-1913. Was Student Teacher at an Elementary School from August 1913. Battersea Training College 1914. Known as “Dody”, described as a rare athlete, H9-1915. Son of George. Cousin of Captain George Woods, son of John, who was KIA 9th September 1916. Preston Guardian, 29th December 1917, reports that “George Woods, Liverpool Scottish, son of Mr and Mrs George Woods, Chorley Road, Walton-le-Dale, is at present lying in a French hospital suffering from illness. The first intimation his parents received of the prevailing state of affairs was a letter from their son stating that he was progressing favourably in hospital. Private Woods, who is 21 years of age, prior to the war was in the scholastic profession.” He joined the forces in December 1916 after Cousin George had been killed. This long-running problem had the last of the loose ends tied up on 11th September 2009 by accidentally finding this report when looking for a citation for an award to another Old Boy. There now remains details of his own military career to be found.
CHARLIE: The following list is in website format. NOT NOW! Some while ago you asked more than once for any listing I could supply of inactive living life members. When you made those requests I didn’t have a complete membership record. I still haven’t but I now have sufficient so I have done the next best thing. From the Membership volumes which I have transcribed into my computer, I have covered the period 1947 to 1973 (end of the Volumes) and extracted the names of every member who entered the School 1947 to 1969. That gives every member aged 53 to 75, or thereabouts. Next, I have removed every name where I am absolutely certain of a death, or where I am absolutely certain of current active membership. Then I have removed all information apart from name and membership status. The latter is restricted to stating life membership or indicating where codes or symbols can be taken to indicate life membership. The removal of identifying detail from each name is deliberate to reduce the risk of breaching the privacy laws. Every remaining name is a lapsed member so far as I can make out from the records. There is a note which outlines the problems arising out of the membership records and requesting lapsed members or their families to make contact. Without being too explicit I hope I have made it apparent that large numbers of members may possibly have been unreasonably deprived of their membership. They should now take the opportunity to re-activate their membership. You should now go through the list and remove the names of those where a death is known with absolute certainty, or where there is absolute certainty of current active membership. “Absolute certainty” is the operative phrase. You must give everyone else a chance to resume active membership. Having removed the names of the dead and the active, the list should be placed on the web site at an early date. Assuming the next Council meeting takes place in the first two weeks of October and agrees to the publication it should be on the site within a week. Each contact back must be recorded onto the list on the website. There are four possibilities: Deceased or Date of Death Resigned Resumed Life Membership Re-activated Membership on ....... A former Life Member still alive resumes his membership and I take it that it is left to his conscience as to whether he pays the current life subscription. A former ordinary member who re-activates his membership pays up. It is vitally important that responses are recorded for all to see. Each response may generate others from former School friends who are also on the list. Any responses which come to me will be passed on to Jim, rapidly. The list as it leaves me has over 370 names which will be reduced when you take out the deaths and actives and may well leave 200-250 former members. This is a golden opportunity to see just how many of those can be recruited. Put it onto the site immediately because there is no point whatsoever in it sitting on a shelf doing nothing. It has to start work. You asked for information, you now have the opportunity for the lapsed members to make their positions clear, so use it. John Lunt, 1958, has been left in the listing but you may wish to remove the entry. He has a somewhat tenuous grasp of reality stretching back to what his uncle said had been a hurried departure from Oxford or Cambridge. If he turns up at an activity he is likely to take it over whilst he promotes the many advantages of euthanasia. An absolutely charming man with remarkably good manners, currently to be found walking down the middle of whichever road he happens to be on, to the amazement of every driver. It is even more devastating and immensely funny watching the reactions of drivers and pedestrians as he stops and starts at a pavement edge attempting to determine whether or not this is the moment he should make a run for the other side. Traffic flow and pedestrians’ traffic lights are a mystery best ignored. I have seen him bring the entire junction in Corporation Street behind the old Public Hall to a complete standstill. When I have enough information to make it practical I will prepare another list in the same style to cover those who joined PGSA after 1973. I have the information to produce a list for the 75 to 80 year olds and there seems to be a goodly number who had their membership terminated. There is a problem with the records. Understatement. The Membership Registers and card index terminated about mid-1973. I was handed a Membership List April 1992, typed and retyped since 1973 or whenever, full of accumulated typing errors, unreliable, with the request please could I go through it and sort out those errors I could track down. No dates or membership numbers on the List. I have a fairly complete set of the attendance lists for the Dinner from 1992 until you took over when they ceased. I don’t know if you reintroduced it this year, hopefully you did so. I am using any list I can put hands on to add names into the computer record but will be short of dates. I have asked Jim if he can let me have, possibly on disc, any names, lists, whatever, which he has in his computer. Even a short list of payments for the Hot Pot Supper could provide a few more names and at least establish that members are still alive and active. I also asked if he has anything on paper not required for current use, if he could put it in a box and bring it to the Remembrance Service I will transcribe everything into the Membership record and then return it. Please can I ask if you will do the same - disc and paper. An Index is being constructed as I go along, Name to Number. It is a bit lengthy! In the fairly near future I hope to have ready for the website a Membership List 1908 to 1930 inclusive. Names, addresses, dates. No one is alive who was a member in 1930. The youngest, joining at 15, would be 94. Then a List for 1930-1934, again no one alive so the privacy laws are not going to be breached, and we give due warning of a third list going to 1939, there will be a few alive so they will have the option of refusing publication of their data. Where Are They Now? The surviving membership records do not give much detail on each member. So far as can be judged all the following former members should be aged between 53 and 75 years. Where a death is known the name has been omitted. The names of active members have been omitted. Many of the addresses in the records are those of the member when he joined on leaving School, they have little or no relevance at this stage and, therefore, all addresses have been omitted. The following list is in the sequence in which the member joined PGSA, and John Michael Worswick joined on 13th August 1950. At various times in the history of the Association there have been purges of “lapsed” members, defined to be lapsed through non-payment of subscriptions. There have been occasions when the period of non-payment seems to be unreasonably short and in several instances a life member appears to have had his membership terminated due to non-payment of annual subscriptions. Unfortunately there are no records which show whether or not these apparent errors were corrected. There are many small pencil ticks in the left margin of the later records and towards the end of the second volume the ticks occur mainly against Life Members. If the ticks in themselves are an indication of Life Membership then this inadequate system might go some way to explaining why Index Cards for Life Members have been found in the box labelled “Lapsed Members”. A code “N.S.L.M.” occurs infrequently and may perhaps be taken to mean “No Subscription, Life Member” but it is not covered by any other indication of life membership. “LM SR” also occurs and this has been ascertained as probably meaning Life Membership, Subscription Required, possibly indicating that there are arrears of annual subscriptions to be made good. The card for a member who joined in 1961, who is very much alive and regularly supporting PGSA activities, was found amongst the cards of deceased members and he is also missing from the 1992 Membership List. The latter very basic List appears to be the main source of Membership details post-1973. Please will Old Boys or their families check the following list of inactive members. If your name is listed you will not be in receipt of any PGSA information. If you are a life member who has not given formal notice of resignation then you should inform the Secretary that your active membership is being resumed. If you are a former ordinary member who wishes to re-activate your membership please contact the Secretary for details of the current life membership subscription. Annual subscriptions were abolished nearly forty years ago, apparently in the expectation that the Association had a limited life expectancy after the School closed. There are comparatively few records of dates of death for all the members dating back to 1908, and many of those from 1908 had been members of the PGSOBA from 1887. A minority of the records have details of qualifications, careers, marriages, family information, and in a substantial number of cases even the dates for attending PGS and the date of joining the Association are missing. Information to complete the records should be sent to Alick Hadwen (address on War Memorial Listing). If you are one of the many members whose membership was abruptly terminated about forty years ago, and you have been nursing a grievance ever since, cast it aside, you were not alone! The majority of those listed below are in the same position. The currently thriving and expanding membership particularly amongst the younger members still in their fifties raises expectations that there may well be a Guild 2032 Dinner for a goodly number of you to attend. Worswick, John Michael August 1950 Armitstead, Jeffrey James (Correctly Armistead?) Marshall, David Lawrence Merry, Walter George Crewe, Richard Eric Gradwell, Tony Aston, George Alfred Anderson Young, Reginald Billsborough, Brian Frank Bennett, Reginald Jones Ashcroft, Kenneth Johnson, John Norris, Thomas Williamson, John Seed, James Henry Curwen, John Finan, Alan Nixon, Joseph Robert Life Member Kidd, Kenneth John Hall, Kenneth Stacey, John Henry David Hewitt, James William John Sim, Michael John Lockwood, Bryan Sumner Wade, Robert Brown Davison, William Gordon Singleton, Peter Waring Clucas, David Bruce Bagwell, William August 1954 Yates, David Stanley Garstang, Jeffrey Imrie, Ian David Taylor, Michael Roger
Woodburn, Brian Sedgley, David Gordon Whittle, Eric Joseph Taylor, Roy Noel Green, Richard Manners Cross, George Morriss Ashton, William Henry Fielding, James Brian Robinson, Robert Inglis Mapley, Frederick Charles Davy, Gordon Charles Broadley, Dennis Walker, Henry Whitehead, Frederick Keith Johnson, Michael Pritchard, William Edward June 1955 Bolton, David Coulthard Greenall, Robin Thompson, Ian Carter, David John Lawson, John Walkden, Alfred Derrick Dennis, David Thomas
Myers, Richard Sanderson, Ian Barrie Isaac, Eric Kenneth Wilson, John
Pinder, John Harvey Crutchley, Michael Joseph
Gardner, David Nash, George
Eccleston, James Derek Bell, David Steele, David Whittle, Raymond Taylor, Frank David Banks, David George Fazackerley, Alan Eastham Hindle, Alan James Heath, Tom Calvert Singleton, Robert Bishop, Charles David Bamber, Joseph Frank Gray, Clifford Alan McDade, Thomas Frank Lowe, John (Two John Lowe’s, one died in Egypt. This is 1951 to 1956, Hurst Green) Heald, Alan Gordon Worsley, Raymond Clayton, Lawrence Clarkson, Dale Michael September 1957 Simmonds, Peter Edward Hayes, Derek Norman Singleton, Peter Massey, Allan Kester Meyler, John Edward Harrison, Donald Eccles, George Ernest Rhodes, Alan David Miller, John Penswick, John Robert Watson, John Darlington Simms, William Michael Hayes, Allan Robert Monk, John Peplow, Thomas Arthur Day, Michael Antony Godkin, Paul James Penswick, Alan Hyde England, Peter Smith, Michael George Pilbrough, Derek Charles McKay, John Billinge, John Francis Clarke, Gordon William November 1958 Parkinson, Brian Hunt, Robin Strafford (Strafford) Rae, Douglas Elliott Roberts, Trevor Henry Theabald, George Norman Dempsey, John Philip Tuson, Kenneth William Rhodes Pilkington, Francis Herbert Howard Hutchinson, George Edward Dunsmore, Adam McGuffie Hughes, Michael Ronald Bamber, Michael Paul Danby, James Warburton, Stephen Andrew March 1961 Atkinson, George Worth, David E Fleetwood, Jack Life Member Taylor, David Lees Life Member Smithson, Roger Chadwick Wallace, John Christopher Briggs, George Peter Bond, William Eric Brooks, Stephen Arnold Featherstone, Thomas Allan Thompson, Trevor Andrew Kirkman, George Alwyn Anderson, Robert James Butler, Raymond Tagg, Robert Kevin Jones, Alan Michael Pickles, Allan Richardson, Malcolm Raymond Wilkinson, Colin Doran, Joseph Peter Forbes, David John Sindall, Charles James Robert Betts, John Charles Booth, Brian George Rance, Stewart Frederick Catterall, Michael William Lonsdale, William Andrew Southworth, Edward Hugh Fisher, Michael Alan Hedingham, Peter Leslie Jolly, George Till, Arthur John Pearson, Francis Whittle, David Pickup, William Frederick May 1962 Ashcroft, David Henry Reeves, Robert Anthony Rhodes, Kenneth David Lunt, John Graham Briggs, Alan Edward Norman, Michael McLeod Grieve, Robert Ramsay Fleetwood, William Byrom Barnes, Geoffrey, James Kellett, Peter William Moon, John Edward Jackson, William Barry Holding, Derek Seddon Smith, Fred Johnson, Robert Ian Lancaster, Derek Tucker, David Charles Chiverton, David Briggs, Thomas James Cliff, Roy Thompson, Roy Richard Derrick, Ian A R Baxter, John Peter Thomas Worrell, Peter Walker, J W Askew, Norman Brian Martagne Hodgson, Alan Life Member Cracknell, Michael David Ireland, David Shepherd, John Peter Bradford, Joseph Ernest Hetherington, John Brian Dagger, Stuart Westray Sharples, Christopher Neil Halliwell, Ian Trevor Life Member Hind, Alan Kenneth Burrow, Richard Graham Burns, John Duncan Standring, Paul Towers, Neil Campbell Barton, Peter James Gittings, Frank Robinson, Paul William Wraith, Ronald Philip Hutton, Derek Jackson, James Franklyn Thomas, Richard Howard Life Member Newton, Derwent Life Member Martin, David Lawson, Peter Anthony July 1963 Rawstrone, Peter Newton Hunter, Edward John Harrison, Geoffrey Norman Lee, Frank David Turner, Stephen Harry
Brodie, Ian Oglethorp Ryding, Norman
Todd, Keith Brindle Tuson, Roger Cameron Rawcliffe, Andrew David Shepherd, David Tyrer, George William Earnshaw, David Robert Bailey, Charles Geoffrey Clarkson, Ian Richard Sharp, John Clifford Harrison, James Stanley Taylor, Raymond Parkington, William Norman Clark, David Pallister Jemson, Timothy Robert Carruthers, David Michael Gardner, Robert Round, James Kenneth Dixon, David H Association Prize winner Life Member Warburton, Peter Hesketh, Peter James Holmes, Leslie H MA Master Lake, Douglas MA Master Bowen, David John Master
Coates, D BA Master Cryer, Brian GRSM (London), LRAM ARCM Master Eastwood, Colin Master Falkingham, Frank Brook BSc Master Farnworth, George Arnold DLC Master Freeman, David Charles Master Goodge, Robert Francis BA Master Moody, Bernard John MA Headmaster Nutter, Alan S DLC Master Simmons, Thomas Caithness BSc (Forestry) Master Spence, John David BA Master Wiggans, Colin BA Master
Booth, Brian George BA (Econ) Walker, Richard Guy Dent Dewhurst, Thomas Simms, William Michael Brooks, George Duncan Sharples, Philip George Ingram, John McKay, John Vincent Sergeant, David Picton, Thomas George Life Member
Bolton, John Walmsley, Leonard Charles October 1964 Bunnell, David John Pennington, Michael Richard Pilkington, James Edward Hughes, David Allan Richardson, Derek Patten, W
Mowforth, Robert Anthony Knipe, Geoffrey Stuart Hitchen, Harvey Watson, David William Butler, David John Harrison, David A tick may indicate Life Member
Gunn, Neil M Gorton, Michael Harvey Jackson, Colin McKittrick, Charles Blair A tick may indicate Life Member.
Melville, Peter Graham Brown, Alan Romain, Mervyn John Wilkinson, Peter Collins, John Peter Southworth, John Stuart Gregory, Nigel Fraser Muir, Ian Robin Snape, William Malcolm November 1965 Worthington, Hugh Malcolm Greenwood, Whitney Lewis, Antony Walsh, Ronald Life Member Kitchen, Robert William Richardson, James William Life Member Preston, John Arthur Life Member Whiteside, Ian Life Member Connolley, William Scarsbrook, Richard Arthur September 1966 Miller, Maurice Heys, Richard Noblett, Peter John Life Member
Dickenson, George Raymond Life Member Billsborough, Brian Frank Life Member Rogers, David George A tick may indicate Life Member Rawlinson, John William Life Member Halford, John Stuart Eccles, Leslie Ronald Earnshaw, Paul Henry Jackson, Gordon Fernley, Philip John September 1967 Jackson, Andrew Freeman, Thomas Leonard Shufflebottom, Keith Pape, Andrew Charles Hallworth, Alan Develin, Robert Life Member
Simpson, Andrew Gordon Parker, John Hamilton Coulston Parkinson, Anthony Jackson, Roger Ian Kershaw Bailey, Edward Sharp, David George October 1968 Hancock, Brian Paul Duxbury, Christopher Life Member Sweetman, Kenneth James Woodhall, Geoffrey Kelvin Life Member Fielden, David Raymond Harrison, Stephen Walter Thomas, Frank Graham Mather, Adrian Philip Kindon, Jack Trafford, Graham Harold Michael Round, James Kenneth Life Member Varley, Andrew Donald Life Member September 1969 Turner, Neil Anthony Wearden, John Harold Billing, Ian George Smith, Philip Andrew
Fitzgerald, William Barry Jackson, Alan Cheetham, Charles James Atkinson, Peter Birch
Cooper, Roy Green, David Frederick Moore, William A tick may indicate Life Member Ainscough, Philip A tick may indicate Life Member Houlder, David A tick may indicate Life Member Richardson, Malcolm Raymond A tick may indicate Life Member Chapman, Ray A tick may indicate Life Member Kirkham, Ian Stanley A tick may indicate Life Member Dewhurst, David Kenneth Life Member ? May 1973 Quigley, Alan Life Member ? Adams, Philip Alan Life Member 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 THAT IS IT. Download 0.62 Mb. Share with your friends:
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