Oundle School War EffortMunitions for the war were made in the School workshops. 40 boys at a time were able to work on the production of fittings for torpedo gears and submarine mines.The new military hospital in Northampton benefitted from 60 screens being made by the Junior Forms.

“It was at first thought that 8 hours would not be too long for a boy to work in a day, but we found that better work was achieved if he only work for 5. On several occasions to satisfy demand some boys have given 10, and even, 12 hours in the day.”

The ArchivesChristmas Quarter 2014

The way we were...

The Archives, “The hidden office at the top of the stairs”, The Cripps Library, Oundle School, Church Street Oundle.Tel: (01832) 277137 Email: archives@oundleschool.org.uk

We Will Remember Them 1914-1918 Oundle SchoolEdmonds SFKynaston AEFCoombs AEG(Gurney-Coombs)Bird JGHWarren JBBWansbrough LBRKidd PCSpendlove GTNorbury FCMacLEan MFAWilliamson EMGotch DHKennedy GSMason RSSundias-Smith RCVeasey JSWatts BHSaunders EWWest WMYarrow EFRailton ATPearson RWTrenchard FARussell EWHPaine WLWaite FMDavies ITNewell TSGodsal AHobbs HERidley SGRhodes JHWGoodfellow AJBoucher CBNewman JSWinstanley OCJackson JMHBurrell PENeedham GGThimbleby JECook THatch LCCoates BMMoney NCkBragg RCSimmons RHLHooper CHArmitage DWEwen DGray CSHarvey RCScorer HSWalton HHGreenway DHWBrocklebank JHTHopkinson HJPHartley JA

Atkinson JBBostock GEBroadbent CHStrickland PSpofforth ERIrwin RNLine JYABull GSMatthews WRMcMichael DWBond PCrawford ABSavage JRBHebblethwaite JCKench LSCoates HBDixon JEBGodwin CHStimpson JCMacBryan ECLyon-Hall CERussell JWBMatheson APFenchelle GJJones KCCarmichael CTurner HKVaughan EWMacCombie WJGulliland JHBurrell SDonaldson GBPlatts ALChalker EJones AVODavis HCCrockett CJSpurling HSGodfrey-Payton ABallard RFCRiley JTBrown WJHBurbridge HCGell CSAstwood ELSGaze GAScarth AEHatch PRMann RLAndrews CEWynn AEClarke WMBegg HBNegretti NCAMulock HCBibby GMGHopkins EFGDurose ST

Dickinson JMowbray KJWMarlow SJColchester BVYoung CTRands OFDunwoody JMGreenhalgh HCHoyle WMCox HHDeVine CHSharples PEArmitage FRRamsay DWBray FBegg RGSecretan RHButcher FWMorbey CFWAttwood LLLloyd SHSteel NGreenfield GHRobson RTStannard AJBaker ARSewell GECrosbie JCLee AADPritchard JESMorris JOMetcalf IMJackson CAMilne DFEdmondstone NSStevenson TRoberts GHBarber MBenson CDRundell LEWinton (Weintraud) EWWarner TLEnglish ACBooth FWest AHMBarwell HEMilholland FRBrown JCLeach CDFHewitt GSHutchins AJAMoore RH Whiston PSRedfern WBarwell HWEDavey SGKayss JHB

Dyson CBBeverley MHamilton RABagshaw HKDenison JChristie RAitchison DJSanderson RBVaughan WTrubridge RWHollick JPlatts RHAinley JHBarton TBGonner EDLStevens EAMGore-Brown EARLaughton JWillis JCEmtage JERenton EGCoates JAndrews ENWilkins LABrindley VGGray JPSiddons BLPlunkett RFDBoard WJBaldwin APJohnson RHBerrill FGJacobs JHRicketts JSRaby WDGreaves NHopcraft PPink ALRogers JVHassard EJWilford LRGrummitt JRBurrell CCalvert GCGrummitt HCStace AHBBeanlands BPGSanders GHEArmitage JARAdam GWMarsden WGWoodward CRBrindley WEKPrynne NFBuckmaster CRGreaves J

FW Sanderson with the Munitions Team, 1917

We Will Remember Them 1914-1918 Laxton Grammar SchoolAnderson JTAsbrey HWBaxter JCarter EHCurtis HNFoulds MFGann WhGeorge SO

Hartley WERees WDHoare RWHorsford WHunt EJohnsonFPKingston (Kington) GN

Lawrence CMarkham HGMMountney GWPerkins FGRobson JASlater SHSranger HBTurnhill HV

Ulyatt WVipan CWallis JEWard JBSeaton RB

Oundle School, 1914The new Science Block was built in 1914.“When completely fitted out, the new laboratories will contain instruments, which on one hand measure minute charges of electricity and on the other hand, huge testing machines capable of breaking iron bars under a tension of 5 tons.It must not be thought that the older boys alone have the advantages of the new laboratories offered to them. The experiment is being tried, with pleasing results, of allowing quite young boys to work on the same general lines... Here is developed that scientific inquisitiveness which parents occasionally find embarrassing, but which has nevertheless its own obvious value.”

“The clock in the Junior Physics Laboratory was fitted with an electrical arrangement, so that seconds can be beaten on an electric bell, the sound being audible in all parts of the room. This arrangement is of value in experiments of dynamics. Time signals sent out from the Eiffel Tower are received by the School wireless installation. The clock can therefore be regulated with great accuracy.”

Science Society - ConversazioneOn Speech Day, a conversazione would be held. Early in the Summer term, over 200 Senior boys would volunteer to design, research and exhibit experiments. Planning and work was done in their spare time until just days before lessons were postponed. Then, odd groups could be seen scurrying around Oundle with jam jars and fishing nets, hods of mortar or engine parts scattered over the lawns, all hurriedly getting ready to exhibit.

School Hours 19147 - 8am Early School9.15 - 9.30 Prayers9.30 - 11.15 Morning School11.15 - 11.30 Interval11.30 - 1.00 Second Lesson2.30 - 4.30 Afternoon School7.30 Preparation in House

“The great majority of boys join naturally in games... a few however, if left to themselves would loaf away their time, doing no good to themselves or to any one else. For the benefit of such boys some games are made compulsory.”

Physics Laboratory 1920s

Speech Day, Junior boys drill, 1914

Oundle 1st XV vs The Leys, 1917Oundle School, New Science Block – Sir Peter Scott Building 1914