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| Captain Augustus Agar VC DSO (1902-03) |
Last Updated: Saturday, 10 May 2008
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 One of the 3 distinguished OFs to win the highest award of the Victoria Cross, is the main subject of a new book written by Harry Ferguson and called “Operation Kronstadt”. A review of this book, covering two full pages, appeared in the Daily Mail dated 10 May 2008, along with a picture of Captain Augustus Agar VC DSO (1902-03). You can read a copy of the review and see the picture by clicking here.
To read an excellent article on Augustus Agar, written and researched largely by John Simpson (K32-36) read the article in the distinguished section here.
You can also listen to the great man himself describing in detail the heroic exploits that led to his VC here.
We are truly privileged to have such a distinguished OF.
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| Overseas Bag – Spring 2008 |
Last Updated: Monday, 5 May 2008
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 Chris Essex writes : As the editor of the Overseas Bag, I’m pleased to say that I have just published the latest news and views from Overseas OFs for Spring 2008 in the People section (click here to go to the People section or use the menu at the top of the page. You will need to be signed in to the website to access the Overseas Bag).
There are a fantastic 16 pages of news and pictures from around the world and well worth a read. For example find out who this OF is and what he gets up to! Space considerations mean that both the Newsletter and Yearbook can only contain an edited version of this news, so I strongly encourage you to sign up and read about your former school mates.
I was particularly delighted to hear from many overseas OFs for the first time and I'd love to hear from more of you. There are now around 800 OFs who live overseas from the UK. Please get in touch with me here.
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| Ernest Edmund Fresson OBE (1901-05) |
Last Updated: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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 One of our distinguished OFs celebrates a memorable anniversary in May 2008. Ernest Edmund Fresson OBE (1901-05) was a pioneer aviator and businessman and 8 May 2008 marks 75th anniversary of his starting the first scheduled air service from Inverness with his company Highland Airway, later to become part of British Airways. This anniversary led a year later, to him introducing the very first domestic airmail service in the UK, between Inverness and Kirkwall. The 75th anniversary of this historic event will be on 29 May 2009. Among his other notable achievements is the building of the first tarmac runaway in the UK on Stornaway. For more detail on Fresson, please see the distinguished piece on him by clicking here.
To mark this anniversary the Fresson Trust, in collaboration with Ernest’s son Richard, has republished his father's memoirs “Air Road to the Isles”. OFs have been offered the opportunity of ordering a pre publication copy at the discounted price of £15 plus p&p. Click here for more details and order form. The book includes mention of the College and will be featured in the next Yearbook.
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| Hong Kong Supper Report: Dateline 27 March 2008 |
Last Updated: Friday, 4 April 2008
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 Ian Howard reports: The Rugby Sevens/SOF Hong Kong Supper is now officially over and our livers are much the worse for it! It was a shame that England couldn't manage to beat Samoa twice (once was hard enough) and crashed out in the Quarter Finals.
Click on Read More for the gory details.
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| Sunday Telegraph article mentions 2 distinguished OFs |
Last Updated: Monday, 24 March 2008
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 Update 30 March 2008 : Jim Blythe's letter to Brough Scott was published in the Sunday telegraph today. Click here to read it.
Original article : You may be interested to know that in Easter Sunday’s Telegraph, Brough Scott wrote a full-page article about his grandfather's horse, Warrior, and the last great cavalry charge in history, led by Lt Gordon Muriel Flowerdew VC (1894-99). You can read the article here. It also mentions and includes a painting by another distinguished OF, Sir Alfred Munnings KCVO PRA (1891-2).
Jim Blythe is trying to get a letter published in response to the article, which will mention that Flowerdew went to the College.
For more details on Lt Gordon Flowerdew VC click here
For more details on Sir Alfred Munnings KCVO PRA click here
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| OF Hockey v College - Dateline 5th Jan 2008 |
Last Updated: Tuesday, 4 March 2008
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 In what we hope will become at least an annual event, OF hockey players challenged the College Mens' and Ladies' 1st teams in a pair of pre-season matches on 5th January.
Update March 5th: Lots of OFs turned up to support both teams, many of them from the 2006 and 2007 leavers' groups. Katie Blow, one of the 2007 Moreau Leaving Scholars, reports that a good crowd of OFs and 6th Formers watched both matches and then most of them repaired to The Crown for refreshment - including: Amber Harrison, Claire Bush, Maddie Bryant, Sinead Collins, Julie Bagert, Alex Reid, Laura Wright, Georgie Cook, Harry Bush, Matthew Tubbs, Ben Norton,Slava Myachin, Ben Mark, William Bailey, Rupert Moffatt, Ben Haze, Olly Cutting, Sam Cherry-Downes, Nick Lawson and many more.
Great credit for their perseverance in making this happen goes to Ben Hayes and Sinead Collins. Click on Read More to see Sinead's account of the Ladies' match (which included at least a couple of gentlemen!), followed by Ben's account of the Mens'.
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| Website Registrations Break Through One Thousand |
Last Updated: Friday, 29 February 2008
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 On 14th February 2008, Alastair Nall (G92-99) became the 1000th OF to register on the website. This means that around 1/3rd of our active membership are now registered, which is brilliant news.
Amongst other things, registration enables you to update your own postal address and e-mail address, receive regular news updates and have access to archival material and things like the Bill Goldfinch video – click here
As mentioned in the 2007 Yearbook and this previously published story here on the website, we have also started the important process of building an “Electronic Green Book”, based on the information in the 1968 Register. But what we need registered members to do is to update their own entry via the on-line Directory. If you are already registered why not go and update your record now, by clicking here.
If you are not one of the 1000 already registered, then please click here and get updating!
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| Alex Henney is off to the North Pole again |
Last Updated: Wednesday, 27 February 2008
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 Having walked to the North Pole last year, Alex Henney (Z84-95) has decided to partner with long time friend Simon Marshall, to now be the first to pilot a hovercraft to the same spot. The pair aim to attempt this world first in April of next year. Before then they will be preoccupied with raising funds to getting the expedition underway, preparing the hovercraft for the high Arctic temperatures and also preparing events for their selected charity, the Burnham-On-Sea Area Rescue Boat (BARB).
For more information on the trip, including how to support them, you can visit their website here or to see details of Alex’s previous trip to the North Pole last year, please click here
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| Essex Supper - Friday 18th April 2008 |
Last Updated: Friday, 22 February 2008
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 This year's Essex Supper will again be held at The Warren Golf Club, Woodham Walter (7.15 for 8.00pm, lounge suits, guests welcome), where OFs have become used to an extremely warm welcome in beautiful surroundings.
In addition to the supper, OFs might like to know that the golf club welcomes them to play a round of golf earlier in the day (at the special rate of £18.00 - see "Read More").
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| The fabulous Shirtlifters are going on tour! |
Last Updated: Wednesday, 20 February 2008
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 Charles Benson (S45-54) writes : I run a Traditional Jazz band called the fabulous Shirtlifters which has been going for about 20 years. Most of its members are drawn from the good villagers of Cookham Dean in Berkshire.
In May this year the Band is doing a West Country Tour, a 4 gig 'event', in the immediate environs of Lands End. Most of what the present Band is about and details of the gigs can be found on our website see here - including a sampler of the music. I hope a number of west country based OFs may be able to come along.
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