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St. George’s School Windsor Castle Association CHRONICLE 2018 Welcome to another edition of the Chronicle. You may well be reading this on the school’s website: this allows us to manage our carbon footprint and direct more of the society’s funds to School ventures. We hope that in the future we will be able to populate the Association section of the website with more and more items from and for the archive. Do please get in touch with copies of any photographs or memorabilia from your time at the school, particularly if you were a pupil of the school before 1996. The Chronicle serves two important functions: first, it acts as a document of record that publicizes the rules of the Association and minutes of its AGM; secondly, it aims to keep members in touch one with another. It is in this second area that it is entirely dependent on its members: the more that is contributed the more valuable it will become to its members. Please do send your news either by the tradition method of postcards or on e-mail to [email protected] . If you know of any news about another former pupil do please let us know; we positively encourage parents to sneak on their children! Obituaries I have first to announce the obituaries and notifications that I have received. It was with sadness & pride that (Charles) Allan McDowall (1947-52) wrote to record that his younger brother Kenneth Andrew McDowall (1949-54) died in Montpellier hospital on 14th August, 2017 of sudden septicaemia due to old war wounds, age 77. Captain Kenneth Andrew McDowall, Royal Marines, was a chorister with myself from 1949–1954. He went on to the Nautical College, Pangbourne, played Bugle in the band, trained arduously to pass into the Royal Marines. He completed two tours in Aden, when the populace was being murdered by terrorists, then two tours in Malaysia & Borneo which involved having a helicopter spot a terrorist camp. Then that night, he & a sergeant canoed up the nearest river, crept through the jungle and dispatched all the terrorists except one, and crept out again. The objective to terrorise the terrorists. After a parachute accident, he spent 6 months in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and was then stationed at RM Lympstone as the Heavy Weapons instructor. Thereafter, his health forced disability retirement. He was married twice, 1st Deborah Lysaght of Mallow; two daughters Hannah & Morna. Then Dr. Capucine Le Roux de Bretagne of Treignat, of Médecins sans Frontières. They had three sons & a daughter, Bartelemy, Columban, Dougall & Victoria. Civilian life was difficult for him. St. George’s was excellent training for the Marines – maybe Choir School a bit stricter, but Heaven on Earth. A Long Bow for life. Fly far, for you are today’s arrows. Benny Thomas (1972-1977) died early in 2018 and is hugely missed by his family and brother Dicky Thomas (1968-73). A plea renewed The Editor would be grateful for news about members of the Association, their whereabouts, appointments, achievements, or other changes in circumstances so that this Chronicle can be an ever more accurate and informative way of fulfilling the objects of the Association. Similarly, we would be grateful for notification of those members who have died so that we can mark their passing and amend the records. New Members 2017 Year 8 Leavers Ra’eef Adam (2008-2017) Merchant Taylors’ Grace Andrews (2008-2017) Leighton Park School Martin Bolmat (2009-2017) St James’ Senior Boys School Maximilian Broad (2013-2017) Rugby School James Button (2009-2017) Luckley House School Max Evans (2008-2017) Windsor Boys’ School Matthew Gannon (2009-2017) Bradfield College Felix Gibbons (2011-2017) Eton College Benjamin Lawson (2015-2017) Windsor Boys’ School Ben Lewin (2007-2017) Windsor Boys’ School Faron Molla (2009-2017) Wellington College Jude Morgan-Dewar (2007-2017) Bradfield College William Mumford (2007-2017) Windsor Boys’ School Camilla Pearce (2007-2017) Holyport College Oscar Pincus (2007-2017) Bradfield College Lorenzo Proietti-Meloni (2008-2017) Windsor Boys’ School James Radford (2008-2017) Hampton School Hanzala Rajbhoy (2014-2017) St James’ Senior Boys School Zachary Roberts (2012-2017) Winchester College Matthew Ryan (2007-2017) Ardingley College Harry Sherman (2008-2017) St James’ Senior Boys School Eashen Vickers (2008-2017) Windsor Boys’ School Jemima Wales (2007-2017) Holyport School Charles Warren (2015-2017) Windsor Boys’ School Louise Windsor (2007-2017) St Mary’s School, Ascot Year 6 and other Leavers Alfie Adriano (2013-2017) St George’s College, Weybridge Zakariyya Becker (2011-2017) Merchant Taylors’ Zachary Broad (2014-2017) Abingdon School James Davis (2012-2017) Reading Blue Coat School Thomas Day (2009-2017) Reading Blue Coat School Luka Devaux (2009-2017) St George’s School, Ascot Jasveer Dhariwal (2010-2017) Burnham Grammar School Lucy Ellis (2009-2017) Sir William Perkins’s School Oscar Falkentoft-Hansen (2015-2017 Reading Blue Coat School Oona Gibbons (2011-2017) St George’s School, Ascot Eimear Graham (2009-2017) Sir William Perkins’s School Willow Hefferman (2015-2017) Sir William Perkins’s School Matilda Howe (2010-2017) Sir William Perkins’s School Archie Ingram (2009-2017) LVS, Ascot Daniel Kuye (2015-2017) St Bernard’s Catholic Grammar School Laila Marples (2010-2017) St George’s School, Ascot Summer Masood (2014-2017) St George’s School, Ascot Luke McKenna (2009-2017) Leighton Park School Kian Morjaria (2015-2017) Reading Blue Coat School Giles Mowbray (2010-2017) Hampton School Kinza Nackvi (2009-2017) St George’s School, Ascot James Pritchard (2012-2017) Reading Blue Coat School Aleksander Proudnikov (2015-2017) Furze Platt Senior School Isabelle Randle (2009-2017) Sir William Perkins’s School Griffin Sibley (2015-2017) Gulf Stream School Corban Smith (2009-2017) LVS, Ascot Karran Soora (2010-2017) Thorpe House School Isobel Thomas (2009-2017) St George’s School, Ascot Frederick Wickers (2010-2017) St George’s College, Weybridge News from and about Association Members News reaches us that Ben Andrews (2005-14), who went on to Hampton, has taken up rowing most successfully. He has rowed in NAT Schools Regatta every year since leaving St George’s and won a bronze medal in NAT Schools Regatta 2017 for the coxless fours. His coxless fours crew was chosen to represent GB in the coxed 8 at the annual GB v France race on 13th July 2017 alongside two boys from Radley and two from Shiplake: they were victorious! As for singing, Ben is a member of Hampton Voices of Lions who competed in Birmingham on 8th July 2017 in the Music for Youth competition. From there he went to the Edinburgh Fringe for a 10 day run in August. He also sings fortnightly with Taplow Youth choir. Former Windsor RFC colt Josh Basham (2004-09) made his senior debut for London Irish early in the New Year in the Anglo-Welsh Cup. Although Gloucester were convincing winners, Josh wrote “Loved making my debut for Irish at the weekend… Tough result but always honoured to take the field with such a good group of lads.” Josh began playing Rugby at the age of five, excelled at St George’s and joined the London Irish Academy at 15 before captaining their under-18s. Last March he represented England at Under-18 level and this February he was part of the England side that beat Wales 37-12 in the Six Nations clash at Kingston Park. D. J. H. Bolton (1959-63) is still consulting on the UK agricultural business, an area considerably hotted up by BREXIT (see www.boltonpartners.co.uk). He is keeping busy in various ways as Chairman of Governors for the Town Close Schools in Norwich, Chairman of the Norwich Rowing Club and Junior Warden of the Worshipful Company of Farmers. He particularly enjoyed seeing the Choir at work in the recent Royal Wedding. Jamie Beagle (1999-2005) writes: 2018 marks 13 years since I left St. George’s Windsor Castle, but thankfully I am still in touch with many of the good friends I made during my time there. I currently reside in Guangzhou, China working towards my doctorate degree in Petroleum Geochemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, based overseas until I return to Lancaster University to present my finished thesis. My research is mainly focused on using Noble gas geochemistry to model quantitively the migration of hydrocarbon gas compounds in China. The PhD forms a research project funded by the European Union. I recently graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with an MSc in Petroleum Geoscience in 2016, and in 2014 graduated from the University of Brighton with a BSc in Earth & Ocean Science. Life in China has so far been very rewarding. I am continually striving to achieve fluency in Chinese before my return to the UK, the food here is also worth mentioning. All my recent experiences are documented on my blog: (www.geologistinguangzhou.com), which includes the many pictures and videos I have taken in China. After graduating I see myself returning to Asia, or perhaps Canada or Australia depending on what the energy markets dictate. I will be sure to update everyone at the association as to my whereabouts. I will be watching the Royal wedding this week from a television screen in China. Some of my most vivid memories as part of the Lower Chapel Choir were singing hymns at Eton College on early Sunday mornings, while Prince William and Harry were both in attendance, sitting in the pews opposite me and the other awe-struck students of St. George’s. Peter Burrows (1964-69) has helped grow the Oxford Lieder Festival, a two-week celebration of song each October.