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Poppy Appeal Launch
The two Puma MkII helicopters from RAF
Benson landed on Upper 1 in November
as part of the official launch of the 2017
Poppy Appeal. The Station Commander
at RAF Benson, Group Captain Hamish
Cormack, was on board one of the
helicopters and was joined by eight senior
members of St Edward’s Combined Cadet
Force and accompanied by World War
II veteran Ken Hicks. The first poppy
was purchased by the Lord Lieutenant of
Oxfordshire, Tim Stevenson.
Americans
We have had a lot of fun this year with our “Throwback Thursday” posts on Facebook.
Trawling the Archives we found this picture which shows that we have had the Armed Forces
on Teddies sports fields long before the landing of the Puma helicopters on Upper I last year.
This was May 1944, just before D-Day. The School’s head groundsman ‘Father’ Neale
traded the best parts of the sports fields to the Americans in return for much needed
petrol for the School’s mowers. The Americans were very friendly towards the pupils,
teaching them the basics of baseball and how to chew gum!
Puma on Upper One
Americans on Upper One
Ist XV Act of
Remembrance
This November marks the 100th anniversary
of the end of the Great War. St Edward’s
School World War I contingent numbered
673. Today there are 685 pupils in School.
121 OSE and 3 teachers were Killed in
Action. Many of them played rugby for the
St Edward’s 1st XV.
Ypres plaque
Plaque at Ypres
The fallen OSE of the Somme now
remembered in St George’s Church, Ypres.
This photo was sent to us by Rik Elderton
(E, 1992-1997).
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