Radley College Archives
Commemorating the Fallen of WW1
Commemorating the Fallen of WW1 – Winning the Victoria Cross
A surgeon's story – from The Old Radleian, 2008
The WW1 cartoonists featured in the collection at Radley College
Commemorating WW2 – D-Day 6th June 1944
The South African War Memorial, 1899-1902
Letter proposing a War Memorial, 1902
Radleians serving in the Boer War, 1899-1902
Obituary Calverley Trevelyan Hancock (B Social 1893)
Obituary George Lockhart Greenshields (G Social 1890)
Obituary Alexander Nelson Hood (D Social 1887)
Obituary Charles Westrow Hulse (1872)
Obituary Archibald Ronald Armadale Macdonald (C Social 1894)
Obituary Hugh Robertson (D Social 1894)
Obituary Harold John Stanton (G Social 1892)
Obituary Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate (1855)
The Boer War – letters from South Africa sent to The Radleian magazine
The Boer War – letters from South Africa sent to The Radleian magazine. No. 2
The Boer War – letters from South Africa to the Radleian magazine. No. 3
Visitors and enquiries
Books and articles about Radley College and Radley Hall Estate
Book launch 30 November 2019
Detailed handlist
A brief history of Radley College
Singleton, Sewell and the ideal of a school: St Columba's College, Stackallan and St Peter's College, Radley
The Stonhouse and Bowyer families, and Radley Hall estate
Radley Hall School, 1819-1844
Radley Hall examination paper, 1837
29th May, 1847 (Saturday) – Extract from The Oxford Chronicle
The Fellows of St Peter's College, Radley
The Fellows of St. Columba's College, Stackallan
The servitors
Description of the Organ
The arms of Radley College
Henry Taunt's photographs of Radley College
The College Statutes
Silence in the dormitory / Sileatur in dormitorio
Warden Singleton's Diary
About Robert Singleton
The Diary Blog
July & August 1848
January to December 1849
The Radley Psalter
William Wood's Diary
Wood's diary excerpts
The Inventories
Bibliotheca Sewelliana
William Sewell
Captain William Haskoll
Henry Sewell
Edmund Savory
Edward Howard
George Melhuish
Edwin Monk
Rev. William Bedon Heathcote
Mrs Burky
New boys, 1849
New boys: August – December 1848
New boys: January – July 1848
Nugent Wade
Books, Manuscripts and Letters
The Cartoon Collection
The cartoonists featured in the collection at Radley College
Music manuscript
Early printing / incunabula
Buffon's Natural history
The Silver Book
Nomina Palmam Ferentia
The Godley Letters
The Talbot Letters
The Wrinch papers
"Turkish manuscript"
Autographs: letters, albums and signed copies
Activities & Alumni
100 years of rugby at Radley, 1914-2014
Radley at the Olympics
A brief history of Fives at Radley
Cadet Corps
The Cadet Corps, 1909-2009
OTC photograph
The G.H.Q. line near Radley
Radley and poetry
Harold Monro (D Social, 1892)
The Newdigate Prize
Drama at Radley
150 years of drama at Radley
Shakespeare at Radley
List of Productions at Radley
Music at Radley College: a reconstructed history
A choral gallery: photos of Radley College choir
Natural History Society
British moths and their transformations
A study of the genus paeonia
100 Radley Objects
Radley Digital Archive
Marching in Memory for Combat Stress July 2015
Today we remember …
John Gladstone, G Social 1909. Captain, 6th Bn, Leicestershire Regt. Killed in action, Battle of Albert
At school he rowed for the First VIII in 1912. After school he worked 'with Messrs Lysaght Ltd.' – a steel-working company in Bristol.
He joined up immediately on the outbreak of the war: received his commission on Aug. 28, 1914, in the Leicestershire Regiment. He went to France in July, 1915, and was wounded in July, 1916.He returned to France in January, 1917; he was severely wounded in the following April and was shortly afterwards promoted Captain and mentioned in dispatches. He again went to France in May and was killed on 18th September, 1918.
The Radley Register and Commonwealth War Graves Commission disagree with the obituary in The Radleian and give his date of death as 23rd August 1918.
Captain John Gladstone's grave at Serre Road No 1. Photographed for 'Marching in Memory' July 2015
Radley College First VIII, 1912. John Gladstone at bow
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Nicholas van Gruisen. E Social 1904. Captain, Liverpool Regt. Killed in action, Battle of Albert
He went straight into the army on leaving school in 1909.
Nicholas van Gruisen's grave at Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais. Photographed for 'Marching in Memory' July 2015
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The grave of Richard Colborne at Dainville. Photographed for 'Marching in Memory' July 2015
28th May1918
Richard Colborne, E Social 1900. Chaplain (4th Class), 1st Bn, London Regt
Killed in an unknown engagement near Arras whilst bringing in wounded men
At school, Richard Colborne was an Exhibitioner who won the History and Literature Prizes, was Second Prefect and played for the Football XI. After school, he won an Exhibition to Worcester College, Oxford, and then trained for the priesthood. His first curacy was at Great Gaddesdon , Herts. Then, in 1916, he took up the post of Curate-in-Charge at St John's Merton. He was called up in 1917.
He was second Prefect, a member of the Football XI, and won the Senior Quarter by sheer pluck (and incidentally the Sports' Cup). On leaving, he went up to Worcester College, and later took work at a Preparatory School at Hemel Hampstead.
He was ordained deacon in 1912 and priest in 1913, and worked at Romford, and later at Merton, where he was most popular and greatly esteemed by his parishioners. He was wounded on Jan. 4, and killed in action on May 28 while assisting in bringing in the wounded. His chief described him as "one of the finest chaplains" he had ever had. He was Secretary of the Radleian Society during 1916-7, and brought out the last Year Book. He leaves very many friends who mourn his death.
Addenda. 2.4.1919 The Radleian. Memorial. A handsome new reading desk has been placed in St. John's Church, Romford, to commemorate the memory of Rev. R A P . Colborne, T/C.F., who died of wounds last year
As Secretary of the Radleian Society, he was responsible for scouring the newspapers, writing to families and compiling all the information about Radleians serving during WW1. His meticulous work forms the basis of the War Memorial and of all the records in this Commemoration.
Rev Richard Colborne, Chaplain to the Forces
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Ralph Bell, C Social 1905. Captain, 98th Sqn, Royal Air Force
Killed in action in an unknown engagement
The death of Ralph Bell was one of the very few missed by the Radleian Society recorders during WW1. Consequently, he is not named on Radley's war memorial.
The last entry for him in the Radley Register published in 1923 simply stated that he left the school in 1907. This entry was reprinted in 1962. In the 1980s, the Radleian Society was planning an updated version of the Register and so conducted extensive research into those ORs with whom they had lost contact over the years. A handwritten note in the Archivist's annotated copy of the 1962 register updated the information on Ralph Bell:
'Went to Canada; 1st W Ontario Regt, and 98th Sqn RFC; Captain; married. Died on active service in France 27th May 1918'.
George Coote, A Social 1910, Lt, 50th Bn, Machine Gun Corps
Killed in action 2nd Battle of the Aisne
He was a School Prefect who played for the Cricket XI.
He obtained a commission In the Royal West Kents in December, 1914. and later on was transferred to the M.G.C. In July 1917, he was wounded and came back to England. He returned to France in April, 1918, and was killed in action May 27th, 1918. The news of his death will be a great grief to many Old Radleians. He was of a retiring nature, but his was a character,- like that of his great friend, Rupert ffolkes, – of which the very simplicity commanded admiration.
His best friend, Rupert ffolkes, was killed on 30th December 1917. Richard Coote, George's older brother, was killed in action at the Battle of Hulluch on 13th October 1915. Their eldest brother, Peter, was badly wounded in 1917.
He is recorded on the Soissons Memorial, Aisne
Captain Ralph Bell remembered on the Arras Flying Memorial. Photographed for 'Marching in Memory' July 2015
Lt George Coote
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George Bloomfield, D Social 1913. Private, 1/6th Bn, Northumberland Fusiliers
Missing, presumed killed in action, Battle of the Lys
His family were based in Djenan-es-Saouda, El Biar, Algiers. He left Radley in 1917 and went straight into the ranks serving in France. There is no obituary in The Radleian
Private George Bloomfield, Northumberland Fusiliers
George Bloomfield's name on the Ploegsteert Memorial. Photographed for 'Marching in Memory' July 2015
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Herbert Oldfield, D Social 1908. Major, 8th Canadian Infantry Bn, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Died of wounds received in an unknown engagement
He was born in Winnipeg, Ontario.
On leaving in 1911, he went out to British Columbia, and entered the Merchants' Bank of Canada. When he was killed in action on April 6th, he was Major in the 8th Canadian Infantry, and had seen 3 1/2 years service. Since his death he has been mentioned in Despatches by Sir Douglas Haig.
The grave of Major Oldfield at Duisans. Photographed for 'Marching in Memory' July 2015
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Donald MacIver, B Social 1899, Lt, 3rd Bn, South Lancashire Regt
Killed in action, Second Battle of the Somme
He left school before 1902 and became a farmer. He enlisted with the Liverpool Scottish on 6th August 1914 and went to the Front immediately. He was wounded in 1914, but returned and served in France until 1918.
His name is recorded on the Pozières Memorial
Donald MacIver, B Social 1902
Donald Maciver's name on the Pozieres Memorial. Photographed by Nick Bennet & Charlie Barber for 'Marching in Memory' July 2015
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Second Battle of the Somme
Reginald Hodgson
John Moore, MC
Horace Stevens
Photographs of the Pozieres and Arras Memorials by Nick Bennett & Charlie Barber for 'Marching in Memory' July 2015
Reginald Hodgson, D Social 1893, Captain, 82nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action, Second Battle of the Somme
At school he was a Junior Scholar, a Prefect and won the English Literature Prize. He represented the School at boxing and went on to receive a half-blue for both boxing and fencing for Oxford University. After school he studied at University College, Oxford, became a barrister at the Inner Temple and an underwriter at Lloyd's. He was the youngest son of Henry John Hodgson, Master of the Supreme Court of Judicature, and of Mrs. Hodgson, of Keble Road, Oxford. He had his commission early in the war, and was Lieutenant in December, 1914; he was gazetted Captain in February, 1916.
Captain Reginald Hodgson
The name of Reginald Hodgson on the Pozieres Memorial.
John Moore, MC, F Social 1907, Major, Cheshire Regt, attached 71st Cpy, Machine Gun Corps, Killed in action, Second Battle of the Somme
Cheshire Regiment, attached Machine Gun Corps (killed in action on March 21), was son of the late Captain G. H. Moore, Camden Hill, Cranbrook, Kent, and of Mrs. Moore, of Filsham House, St. Leonards-on·Sea. He was twenty-four years of age; he had promotion in the Cheshires in November, 1915, and, transferring to the Machine Gun Corps, became acting Captain in June, 1917. He was at Radley, 1907-1909, and had been mentioned twice in despatches..
The name of John Moore, MC, on the Arras Memorial.
Horace Stevens, College Staff, Lance-Corporal, 2nd/4th Bn, Ox & Bucks LI
The name of Horace Stevens on the Pozieres Memorial.
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The grave of Mervyn Gorringe in Polygon Wood. Photographed for Marching in Memory, July 2015
Mervyn Gorringe, D Social 1891. Lance-Corporal, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Killed in action in an unknown engagement
He rowed for the 1st VIII in 1895.
He emigrated to New Zealand immediately upon leaving school in 1896, where he worked as a sheep farmer. In 1904 he married Margaret Fraser. He returned to Europe in 1915 as a Lance-Corporal in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
Mervyn Gorringe, Radley College Rowing VIII, 1895
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Gilbert Vawdrey, C Social 1911. 2nd Lt, 2nd Bn, Welsh Regiment. Killed in action, Passchendaele
He was a Prefect and a member of Radley's first Rugby XV. In 1916, he went to Sandhurst.
He obtained his commission in the Welsh Regiment in August of the same year, and went to the front in September, 1916, where he has been ever since. A senior officer writes : – "At the time he was killed he was carrying a most important message, and was on his way to headquarters. During the whole day he had been doing most gallant and useful work."
John Boswell, E Social 1904. Gunner, E Company, Tank Corps. Killed in action near Gaza, Palestine
He served as a career officer with the Royal Bucks Hussars Yeomanry from 1909-1911. In 1911 he went to Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) as a planter. He re-joined his regiment in 1915. He suffered from a stammer which may have caused him to resign his commission. He applied to join the newly formed Tank Corps, and served with E Corps under Allenby in Palestine.
He married Alfreda Hurley in 1916.
2nd Lt Gilbert Vawdrey, Welsh Regt. kia Passchendaele
Gilbert Vawdrey, member of Radley's earliest Rugby XV, 1914
The grave of Gilbert Vawdrey ar Duhallow. Photographed for Marching in Memory, July 2015
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Henry Taunt's photographs of Radley College
Radley in the Great War
1st Battle of Messines 1st Battle of the Somme 1st Battle of Ypres 2nd Battle of Cambrai 2nd Battle of Kemmel 2nd Battle of Kut-al-Amara 2nd Battle of the Aisne 2nd Battle of the Somme 2nd Battle of Ypres 2nd Lieutenant 2nd South African War (Boer War) 3rd Battle of Ypres - Passchendaele 1914 accident Actions of Hooge African Campaign aisne Ambulance driver ANZAC Army Service Corps Artist A Social Aubers Ridge Australia/Australian Imperial Force Battle of Albert Battle of Amiens Battle of Arras Battle of Canal du Nord Battle of Jutland Battle of Loos Battle of Messines Ridge Battle of the Aisne Battle of Valenciennes boxing British East Africa (Kenya) British Red Cross/ French Red Cross B Social Canada/Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain career serviceman Chaplain Chevalier legion d'honneur College Staff Corporal cricketer Croix de Guerre C Social died after the Armistice died of wounds Died on active service Distinguished Service Order/ DSO drowned D Social East Africa (Tanzania) Egypt & Suez Canal E Social executed farmer/rancher Festubert Flanders & France (Western Front) footballer F Social Gallipoli gardener German Retreat to the Hindenberg Line Gheluvelt Greece G Social Hill 60 Hockey H Social illness Indian Army Intelligence Officer journalist killed in action La Bassee Lance-Corporal Lance-Serjeant lawyer Le Cateau Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Major Malta Marching in Memory for Combat Stress July 2015 medic Menin Gate mentioned in despatches merchant Mesopotamia Campaign (modern Iraq) Middle East Campaign / Mesopotamia Campaign / Iraq / Egypt / Palestine Military Cross Military Medal missing Mons Musician Neuve Chapelle Neuve Eglise New Zealand Expeditionary Force non-combatants Olympian Palestine & Gaza Ploegsteert Wood pneumonia/Spanish flu Priesthood Prisoner-of-War Private Radley's first Rugby team Red Cross Relief of Kut-al-Amara Richebourg l'Avoue Rifleman RMA Woolwich Royal Army Medical Corps Royal Defence Corps/ Home Front Royal Engineers Royal Field Artillery Royal Flying Corps/RFC/RAF Royal Garrison Artillery Royal Marines Royal Naval Air Service Royal Navy Russian Order of St Anne Sandhurst scholar Schoolmaster Schoolmaster/Academic Senior Prefect/ Head Boy Sergeant Shanghai Volunteers somme South African Forces St Julien Tank Corps Trooper Vimy Ridge
Lest we forget 11 November, 2018
Commemorating the Fallen of WW1 11 November, 2018
Countdown to Peace – an exhibition for WW1 10 November, 2018
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