THIS two-minute Pathé clip must be the earliest surviving sound film of CH. Don't miss it.
Headmaster Oswald Flecker - two years into the job, with twenty-three to go - doesn't look too appealing. (This was the man who at Marlborough gave his pupil John Betjeman a lifelong fear of critics.)
Presumably the portly white-haired gent behind the Lord Mayor is the Treasurer; he seems less keen than his successor Barnes Wallis to insist on his right to walk at the Lord Mayor's right hand.
The band is smaller and less impressive than in recent decades, the marching somewhat smarter.
Boys in the school in the summer of 1932 - perhaps among the faces we see here - included the war poet Keith Douglas, the thriller writer Francis Clifford, the poet and songwriter Sydney Carter of "Lord of the Dance" fame, the man of letters J E Morpurgo, the painter Maurice de Sausmarez, Norman Guthkelch the doctor who identified "shaken baby syndrome", Donald Hopson the courageous diplomat who endured the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and some who died gallantly in the war such as Peter McRae and Michael Rennie; not forgetting the future headmaster of CH John Hansford, the future Treasurer Angus Ross and of course many notable figures in the Old Blue world like Barclay Hankin and John Gillham.Hat tip: Foureyes
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