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The OKS Magazine No. 40 • Autumn 2014 Sebastian Barker Sir Charles Haddon Cave King’s Week Tribute to an inspiring figure toasts the School Robert Sanderson manages page 6 page 9 page 12 The Great War Remembered 1914 - 2014 OKS Offcuts • Issue No. 40 • Autumn 2014 In this issue An exhibition in the Admissions Office, Lattergate during King’s Clara’s Beau FEATURES p3 Week illustrated school life on the eve of the First World War. A Wolseley on the Western Front The Headmaster was the Reverend Charles McDowall who had succeeded Arthur Galpin in 1910. King’s was very small compared 26 August 1914 FEATURES p3 with today: 148 boys in the Senior School, 48 in the Junior. Most Charles Trueman remembered boys were members of the Officers’ Training Corps, which set out for camp on 28 July, but this was abandoned five days later. Term Red Shirt and Khaki Tunic FEATURES p4 had ended on 27 July, and in the speeches there had been awareness Bruno Garibaldi volunteers of the international situation, but no direct mention of war. From Birley’s to Sitochori FEATURES p6 Next door, as the 1995 history of the Cathedral recalls, “the A tribute to Sebastian Barker prospect of a European conflagration had played no part in ordinary everyday proceedings of the Dean and Chapter”. Any Waft her, Angels FEATURES p8 concerns about violence had been limited to “possible outrages” by A colourful Cathedral service honours Bernie Cocksworth suffragettes, and from August 1913 a police constable was placed on duty in the building. However, the nearest thing to an unruly Gray’s Eulogy EVENTS p9 woman had been the discovery of the Archdeacon of Maidstone’s OKS Dinner at the oldest Inn daughter quietly reading on the Cathedral roof one summer morning. Hello, Goodbye and Food for Thought EVENTS p10 May Reunion, King’s Week Lunch, Legacy Club Lunch On 9 August 1914 Dean Wace (aged 78, and married to the daughter of a German scholar) preached on ‘The Christian Blue Skies and Red Shoes ARTS p12 Sanction of War’, confining himself to general issues and warnings Robert Sanderson reports on King’s Week of sacrifices to be made not in vain by soldiers and sailors. Colossi of Roads ARTS p14 On 4 August 2014, Canterbury Cathedral, in common with Books by or about Patrick Leigh Fermor, Justin Marozzi and John Westminster Abbey and many other places of worship across the Man land, held a vigil in the hour that preceded Britain’s declaration of war, a war that was to make its cataclysmic mark on Europe and Sharing experiences CAREERS p15 throughout the 20th Century. Careers Day and real estate networking Only through the small and specific can events of such magnitude Butterfield buildings and county NEWS p16 initially be approached, and the three printed here comprise a note of champions the first OKS to be killed and two unrelated but distinctive OKS stories. News from King’s Pilgrims and Bond Girls, a Final and a SPORT p18 Semi-Final Dates for the diary OKS Golf, Cricket, Sailing, Fencing, Lacrosse, Hockey and Rowing 3 December 2014 16 March 2015 Vintage Sports SPORT p20 OKS Christmas Drinks Canterbury Pilgrims AGM The 1960s & ,70s Dinner The Antelope, London & Supper London Rowing Club, Putney 7 December 2014 The King’s School 22 March 2015 Christmas Concert OKS Men's Hockey and Offcuts and For The Record are edited by Stephen Woodley (Common The Shirley Hall, KSC Ladies’ Lacrosse Room 1969-98), assisted by an Editorial Committee of Felicity Lyons, Birley’s Chair (SH 1975-77), Peter Henderson (Common Room 1969 - ), Nick 13 January 2015 Phillis (MR 1977-81, Common Room 1987 - ) and Kirsty Mason OKS AGM & Committee 14 May 2015 with further support from Paul Pollak (Common Room 1950-88). Meeting OKS London May The Cavalry & Guards Club, Reunion (1990-2014) All information for publication should be sent to Elaine Lynch (etl@ Piccadilly Coq d’Argent, London kings-school.co.uk). Tel:01227 595672. Unless otherwise credited, photographs are by Matt McArdle, Kirsty Mason or School Archives. 25 January 2015 19 May 2015 This publication has been produced by Lee Rigley at the King’s School OKS v KSC Football OKS Committee Meeting Press. Birley’s The Cavalry & Guards Club, Piccadilly 2 OKS OFFCUTS AUTUMN 2014 The OKS Magazine Features Singer and Spy No. 13 in Peter Henderson’s series on Unknown OKS is Kennerley Rumford (1870-1957). Robert Henry Rumford was at King’s with me’ were show-stoppers. The couple from 1884 to 1887. He was a talented went on international concert tours, sportsman, winning races on Sports most notably to Australia, and they made Day and playing in the 1st XI cricket several recordings together, with ‘The team for three seasons, though the 1887 Keys of Heaven’ as their favourite party Cantuarian was unimpressed: ‘Failed piece. Not that it was all plain sailing. In lamentably as a bat. Took to reckless 1909 he found himself in court after he hitting and so lost the good form he had.’ had responded to comments about one He also won a music prize in 1886. of his wife’s concerts by boxing the ears of The Times music critic. The case was On leaving school he went to Germany withdrawn after an apology. to prepare for entering the army, but after vocal training from When war broke out in 1914 Giovanni Sbriglia and Rumford offered his new Alfred Blume he was Wolseley car, converted persuaded by George into an ambulance, to Henschel to become a convey the wounded professional singer. As to a base hospital. He Kennerley Rumford was soon on the staff – adopting his father’s of Sir Arthur Sloggett, In 1917, Rumford was seconded to the middle name – he made Head of the RAMC Special Intelligence Department. His his debut in 1893. His and of the Red Cross, main role was to escort Chaim Weizmann career as a light baritone was and was commissioned on a trip to Gibraltar via Paris and Madrid transformed when he began as a Lieutenant in 1915, later for a meeting with Henry Morgenthau singing duets with Clara Butt, the becoming a Captain. For a while he and others on a possible truce with redoubtable contralto. In 1900 they were was officer in charge of the Red Cross Turkey. Weizmann thought that his married in Bristol Cathedral – an event Society’s advanced stores depot. He was companion was “either terribly ‘profound’ given full coverage by the Illustrated twice mentioned in despatches. Clara or completely innocent, rather the latter, London News. meanwhile had embarked on a series I think”. of charity concerts: some for the Butt- Bertie, as he was known, sang the role of Rumford Fund (for artists adversely After the war, the couple resumed their St Peter in the first performance of Elgar’s affected by the war). Bertie appeared, in concert tours despite family tragedies: The Apostles (1903) and had songs written uniform and to tumultuous applause, their elder son, a promising cricketer, died for him by Maude Valérie White, but from at the most spectacular of them, the in 1923 and their younger son committed now on his career was largely devoted to Red Cross Concert at the Albert Hall in suicide in 1934. Clara died after several escorting and singing with his wife. Clara May 1915, which was reputed to have years of pain from spinal cancer in 1936. was one of the most famous singers in brought in £8,000. It was Clara’s fund- Bertie re-married and lived till 1957. the world. Her spectacular voice filled raising efforts that were rewarded by her Their recordings are still available. large halls with ease and her renditions becoming a Dame in 1920. of ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ and ‘Abide A First World War Pilgrimage Edward Holman (MR 1963-68) pays his respects to the OKS fallen The first OKS to die in the Great War was In July, Edward Holman travelled to Captain Charles Trueman (KSC 1889- Belgium and visited the location near 93) of the 2nd Battalion The Manchester Mons where on the 23 August 1914 The Regiment. He was killed on the 26 Manchester Regiment were defending August 1914 whilst leading ‘A’ company the Mons-Condé Canal. “I followed their forward to reinforce the 2nd Battalion line of retreat to Le Cateau and laid a The Suffolk Regiment who were fighting wreath at the memorial close to where a rear-guard action outside Le Cateau, Captain Trueman was killed and visited during the retreat from Mons. Le Cateau Military Cemetery where he was laid to rest.” www.oks.org.uk AUTUMN 2014 OKS OFFCUTS 3 Features Garibaldi’s War Silvester Mazzarella (GR 1950-56) reveals the life and death of one of the earliest OKS casualties of the First World War, Bruno Garibaldi (1890-1914). Bruno Guglielmo Garibaldi was one of beating Tonbridge Town (not School) by elsewhere. But the Garibaldis had never the first OKS to lose his life in the First ¼ length on 26 June 1909 – the substantial been respecters of governments. Active World War. Born in Rome on 17 August Bruno rowed at no.3 as the middle leadership of the clan had now passed to 1890, he was the seventh of ten surviving member of the crew of five (including Bruno’s eldest brother Giuseppe Garibaldi children (seven sons and three daughters) cox), and he can be seen climbing out Jr., known as Peppino. Born in Australia of a son of Giuseppe Garibaldi, one of the of the boat.