Hi All ...

I am copying and posting an e-mail received yesterday 21st. from RICHARD MOSS (a.k.a. Mossie) ... WELCOME Richard ...
The e-mail is self explanatory ...

Richard Henry Moss,

School dates 1960 to 1967,

Captain of Football 1966-67

Joint Captain of athletics with Andy Capper in 1967.

Loughborough Colleges, 1967 to 1970. Taught from 1970 to 2016 and am now happily retired.

My first post (4 years) was in one of the two rugby playing grammar schools in Leicester where I became Head of the PE Dept. at the end of my first year teaching.

My second post was 20 years at Oakham School in Rutland where the Head kindly encouraged me (and funded my Open University studies) to get a degree.

Then 11 years as Head of Maths at Kings Norton Boys School before finishing my career at Cadbury 6^th Form College.

Seven children aged between 42 and 19 and four grand children (are my biggest delight).

My wife Gill (nee Brown) represented England at Hockey at the Seoul Olympics and I became Manager of the Leicester Ladies HC in the first year of the new Womens' National League in 1989.

Enough rambling on...I really want to contact my school mates, Alan Flux (a year ahead of me) in particular.

Can any one help!

Regards

Richard,    (Mossie).

Thanks go to Graham Hawkins who has kindly sent me several photos from his time at the School ... they appear under 'OTC JTC & CCF', 'Prefects' and 'General' ... truly appreciated Graham !

Below is a copy of an e-mail I received today from GORDON SHINN ... If anyone out there would like to contact him, please let me know, and I will arrange contact ... Cheers all !

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Hi
I was a boarder at Kelso House/Barton Seagrave from 1971 to 1976, being 16 when I left after taking my O levels, when my dad left the army. I had two older brothers - Barry and Michael. Michael left the school in 1971/72 when we were living in Germany. Sadly he passed away in 2009, aged 51. Barry would have left in 1975, I think, when he was 18.
I’ve recent taken early retirement from Hampshire County Council in Winchester, where I worked for 20 years in two 10 year spells, with two years in South Africa in between. After leaving Peter Symonds, we went to Caernarfon where I took my A levels. I married Sharon, who I met at school in Caernarfon. After that I had a career in local government finance and moved around the country and abroad (Jersey and South Africa).
Anyone who remembers me or my brothers want to get in touch?
Thanks
Gordon Shinn

Hi Doug


As mentioned in my earlier e-mail to you, I remember both Mark Steer and John Everett,if he's the one whose dad owned North Walls Motor Works, from my time at Peter Symonds.

A big thankyou to John Piper for his latest posting of a 'Medal' yet to be identified ... the archivist of the TSA is endeavouring to find out more about it, and any information received, whether from him or from other sources, will be published here.

An apology from me also goes to John Piper for taking from December 2016 to get some photos he kindly sent me, posted to the site ... this was due to an unexplained problem with our site, preventing me from posting pictures ... the problem has resolved itself just today, and the photos now appear in Prefects, JTC & CCF and General Photos ... Many thanks John.

A PSSW Medal

Hi All,

I came across this small (27mm dia.) medal



Are any of you chaps able to identify it? I wondered if it might date to the WW2 period and perhaps be cadet corps related. But that's only a guess. 

Look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

'Pip' 

I am copying an e-mail, sent to me yesterday, from Joanna Costin, in the hope that someone might have information that will help her in her quest about an ex Symondian Osbert Harold Brown ... should anyone have any information, please e-mail me and I will pass on Joanna's contact details ... Thanks ! ... Doug Clews

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Joanna Costin

9 September 2016

Hello, I'm researching the 11th Suffolk Regiment during the First World War, and one of the officers attended Peter Symonds School until receiving a scholarship to Pembroke College Cambridge in 1910. I wondered if any of your members might have additional information about him, or whether you would be interested in the results of my research so far. (I realise this is a bit of a long shot!) Captain Osbert Harold Brown was born in Winchester, 2 May 1892 and was the son of Alfred Robert and Anne Brown. He was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment on 8 October 1914, promoted to Captain 9 November 1914, and went to France in January 1916. He was awarded the DSO for his actions on 1 July 1916, and the MC for a smaller attack on 4 August 1916. He was killed in action on 1 November 1916, while at morning stand-to. Best wishes, Jo Costin