Soham Grammar School Photo 1929

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The photo is courtesy of Hon SG Mike Rouse who recently received the photo from the Unwin family: his late uncle Doug Unwin appears at 2/10.

Mrs Anita Brown also has a copy. Hers was annotated by the late Jack Eden (see 10/10) one of the five Eden brothers who were at SGS 1926-1949.

On 15 Apr 2010 Fred Eden provided his transcription of Jack's notes on 72 previous unknowns of the 134 faces (which in most cases included where they were from, not shown here): Mrs Brown added 8; there were 10 already known. We are very grateful to Mrs Brown and Fred Eden for their contribution.

( ) = face partially shown, shown in full in another section.

Soham Grammar School Photo, taken October 1929

If you are able to put names to faces or suggest corrections please let the editor know, stating row (1, 2, 3, back 4) and position in row, left to right. For example in 7/10 below a young Mr Riley is "row 2-1". He came in 1929.

See also Index to Soham Grammar School Admission Register 1922-1926 which may include some of those shown here.

# means listed on the 1939-45 Roll of Honour

1/10

back 4: Frederick Salmons - 2 - ( )

row 3: 1 - 2 - Edgar Palmer - Arthur Liles - Edgar Andrews# - 6 - Douglas Touch

row 2: Turner - 2 - Haworth - 4 - Rupert Gandy - ( )

row 1: 1 - 2 - Ashby - Douglas Tann - Ernest Kerridge

Soham Grammar School Photo, October 1929

2/10

back 4: P Brown - 2 - William Sharp - Rowland Withers

row 3: Doug Unwin/Onions - Harold Trett - E Touch - 4

row 2: Starling - 2 - Stanley Cutter

front row 1: none

Soham Grammar School Photo, October 1929

3/10

back 4: D Hill - Alfred Spinks - Stanley Edwards - Arthur Gandy - R McLaren (boarder) - Reginald Caswell

row 3: 1 - 2 - Tom Sawyer - 4

row 2: Gothard - 2 - Robin Drake - 4 - ( )

row 1: none

Soham Grammar School Photo, October 1929

4/10

back 4: ( ) - Richard Hawkes# - 2 - Frank Simpkin - 4 - ( )

row 3: John Chapman - 2 - Arthur Peacock - 4 - 5

row 2: 1 - Tom Hobbs - 3 - 4

row 1: none

Soham Grammar School Photo, October 1929

5/10

back 4: Vernon Freestone - Donald Day - Richard Moreton - Unwin

row 3: ( ) - 1 - 2 - 3

row 2: Mr Savage (Handicrafts) - Mr Cecil Crouch (Music) - Mr RL (Taffy) Thomas (Geography, Maths)

row 1: none

Soham Grammar School Photo, October 1929

6/10

back 4: Peter Bedford - Bolton or Butler - 3 - Ginger Lockwood

row 3: 1 - 2 - John Watson

row 2: Mr LG (Jugger/Bish) Johnson (English, Latin) - Mr JC Platt (Head) - Mr GL Hunt (Biology/Rural Science)

row 1: none

Soham Grammar School Photo, October 1929

7/10

back 4: Colin Eyet - Sidney Butters - Salmon - Clarke - ( )

row 3: Frank Butters or A Cornell - 2 - 3 - James (boarder) - ( )

row 2: Mr Tom (Luke/Slug) Riley (French) - Mr John (Charlie) Ford (Chemistry) - Alfred Eden - Stanley Banyard

row 1: none

Soham Grammar School Photo, October 1929

8/10

back 4: William Manning - Talbot - Maurice Pettit - William Kerridge - Ernest Drake - 6

row 3: Thomas Clark - Henry D'Arcy or D'Oyly (boarder) - Stanley Fisk - 4 - 5

row 2: ( ) - Alec Owers - 2 - 3 - 4

row 1: none

Soham Grammar School Photo, October 1929

9/10

back 4: Sidney White - Jack Owers - John Martin - James Field - T Osborn - Frank Nicholls

row 3: J Carter - Arthur Dennis - 3 - 4 - 5 - ( )

row 2: Geoffrey Watts - R Fyson - Bolton - Bradshaw - Ernest Butcher

row 1: none

Soham Grammar School Photo, October 1929

10/10

back 4: John Grover - Harold S Yeomans - Frank Pinion

row 3: George Joyce - Chick Purvis - William J Allen - Wilfred Palmer - Spreckley - Ernest Gilbert - 7

row 2: 1 - Griffiths - Forsyth - 4 - Bailey - Jack Eden

row 1: Robert Fawcett - William Gilbert - Dewey - John W Boyce - Frank Walker - 6

last names update 24 Feb 11: images enlarged 10 Oct 10
photo: no. 16168, Panora Ltd, London WC1: courtesy of Mike Rouse (Hon SG)
identifiers: Mrs Anita Brown, Fred Eden, Rupert Gandy, Frank Haslam, Mike Rouse, Richard Walker, Michael Yeomans