From the BBC: A British soldier photographed sticking two fingers up in defiance to his World War Two German captors has died at the age of 97. Lt Jack Reynolds – who served in the 2nd …
Colin Geatrell (CHSB 1956-1964)
Colin Geatrell died suddenly in February 2019 from a brain haemorrhage. Barbara Geatrell – his widow
Rodney Bowen (CHSB 1943-1951)
My father, Rodney Bowen, who attended Chichester High School for Boys between 1943 and 1951, sadly passed away on April 21st 2019. He was School Captain in 1950, a Prefect and member of the school’s 1st XV. I have a copy of Roger Wardale’s book, ‘Chi High 1928 – 1958’, which has a few photographs and references to my dad. …
Philip Evelyn Allman dec’d 1925-1948 (CHSB 1935-1943)
Philip Evelyn Allman was the older brother of Hugh Allman. https://www.oldcicestrians.co.uk/hugh-allman-chsb-1937-1945/ He was a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force and he died when he crashed in his Spitfire (Hugh thought it was a Hawker Hurricane) on 3 December 1948, shortly after World War Two. The accident occurred near Oxted in Surrey and he is buried, like his brothers …
Hugh Allman dec’d 1927-2019 (CHSB 1937-1945)
Wednesday 3 April 2019 I am sure Uncle Hugh would want me to tell the Old Cicestrians that he went to his heavenly home this morning at 9 am. He had a stroke on 20th December 2018. As you know he had been blind for about eight years, if I judge time correctly. He then became unable to walk and …
George Ayling’s Memorial Service
I learned today that George Ayling’s memorial service will take place on Friday 18 January at 3 pm at St Paul’s Church, Chichester. George (Adolf) joined the staff of CHSB in 1950 and served for 35 years until retiring in 1985. At the grammar school, he was the music department and had to teach in the hall as there …
Robert Patrick Harman (CHSB 1954 -1960) b. 1943 d. 2001
From Robert’s brother-in-law: As regards Robert, he moved to Reading after one year of “A” levels at Chichester and finished them at Reading Technical College. After a gap year during which he worked for Boots the Chemists, he went up to Leicester University and qualified as a Pharmacist. He returned to Reading and worked first as an assistant manager for Boots, …
Maurice William Cowell (b.1930-d.2018) – former master
Maurice was born in 1930 into a world that would be unrecognisable today. There was 25% unemployment in the UK and workhouses had only just been abolished. One thing that hasn’t changed though is that England lost the Ashes to Australia 2-1. Quite remarkably, Don Bradman, that most famous of Australian batsmen, scored an unbelievable 2960 runs at an average …
Alan Arnell: Powerful Liverpool centre-forward and Old Cicestrian (CHSB 1944 -1950)
Wednesday 29 May 2013 If Liverpool signed a centre-forward in 2013, and he went on to score 35 goals in 75 games for the club, he would be hailed as a sensation and valued at many millions of pounds. But when Alan Arnell did just that in the 1950s, he was discarded by the Second Division Reds, and saw out …
Air Chief Marshal Sir Brendan Jackson (CHSB 1947-1954)
Former Air Member for Supply and Organisation, died from motor neurone disease on November 19, 1998 aged 63. He was born on August 23, 1935. As one of the most senior members of the Air Board between 1988 and 1993, Benny Jackson was a central figure in the debate over privatisation within the RAF. Widely regarded as one of the cleverest of his Service generation, he …