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on in the Regular Army and had by the outbreak of the second world war qualified for the regular medal. Major Hawkins says he has seen girls of the W.R.A.C. wearing both medals. Again many holders of the Regular Army Medal have subsequently joined the T.A. and qualified for its medal. We leave it to Mr Harrison to answer that one. The subject of medals leads us to mention Mr John Barnatt (School number 1795). He read what was said about the medals won by Andy Swan and Brigadier Mackenzie with special interest because he is himself a keen numismatist (coin-collector, to save anyone the trouble of turning it up in a dictionary) and has gone on to collect medals. Of these he possesses 157, including a 1914 D.S.O. and three Indian G.S. medals. He blinds us with science in his account of the various Indian medals, a subject in which he is clearly an expert, and he has offered to send coins for any numismatic club that may be formed in the School. At present we have none. In fact we recall only one boy in recent years who had this hobby. Colonel Archie White has written with a note about the School's first graduate. This was Robert Bayne, who, with other older boys of the School, went to classes at the McLaren High School, then to Madras College, St. Andrews before going on to St. Andrews University. Following up his inquiry. Colonel White got a letter from Major D. M. Naulty, H.Q. 43 Division, who wrote to St. Andrews and learned that the Bayne mentioned was probably the Robert Bayne shown in the records as having graduated with honours in 1928. He went on to teach Science in Leslie High School, and died about the beginning of the second world war. We cannot be absolutely sure of the correctness of this information. Major Naulty, incidentally, was a master here some ten years ago. In the " Stirling Observer " of 18th May, we read of the appointment of Mr Frederick Pegg to be headmaster of the Holy Trinity Episcopal School, Stirling. Mr Pegg, a former Senior Monitor of the School, was here just before
the late war. He joined the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of Captain in India. After the war, he trained as a teacher at Moray House, Edinburgh, and then taught in his home town of Tillicoultry, before going to the Persian Gulf to the Kuwait Oil Company's Anglo-American school and the Indian-Pakistani school. He came back to Borestone Primary School, where he was first assistant. Mr Pegg is married with a seventeen-year-old son, and is a keen traveller who records his journeys on cine-film. From Aberuthven, near Auchterarder, Mrs Munro has written to the Commandant to tell about her son Tony Ward, who was at Q.V.S. with his brother Peter. Tony Ward, after nine years' service with the Black Watch, joined the police force. He has now passed out from the Police College, Fife, winning the gold medal. His brother Peter is a P.O. in the Royal Navy. Again from the " Stirling Observer ", we have news of the career of Bill Nicol, manager of the Drumossie Hotel, outside Inverness. He started as a page-boy in Stirling, then went to sea, in cargo boats and later with the Cunard line. He was assistant chef |
on several of their great liners, including the " Queen Mary," and had a year in the hotel trade in France, before coming to a managerial post in Stirling at the " Golden Lion ", and going on to the 101 Restaurant in Glasgow and the Braid Hills Hotel in Edinburgh. He has now been two years at the Drumossie Hotel, which we therefore recommend to readers who want to be catered for by a man of real experience. There is no charge for this advertisement. From Virginia Water, Surrey, there is a letter from A. A. S. Dupuy, who has recently moved there on being appointed circulation manager of his newspaper. He has been put in touch with the London Old Boys' organisation, as he requested. J. O'Brien, now living in Northumberland, has also written to the Headmaster. Like many Old Boys he thinks of the School's pipe band and Highland dancers, of whose performance he has vivid memories from his own school-days, and he has asked if any recording of the School band can be got. Here we are beaten. There certainly was such a recording a number of years ago, but we cannot trace it. Perhaps it is time another was made.
London Old Boys are kept very well in touch with the School through the services of Mr Jimmy Grassick, and he would blush if he read the tributes that have been paid to him by other Old Boys of the London area writing to the School. Brigadier W. T. Lunt, M.B.E., has accepted the office of Vice-President of the London Old Boys, who met on 20th March. Thirty-four members were present, whose enthusiasm, says Mr Grassick, was not dampened by the wetness of the day or by Scotland's bad luck at Twickenham that afternoon. His report showed that the membership had doubled in the past year to a total of 66. It is quite evident that the increase in number of members is largely due to the indefatigable work of Mr Grassick himself, both in correspondence and in personal contact. In one of his letters Mr Grassick tells us of the 7th Festival of Scotland Highland Gathering held at the Richmond Athletic Ground in May, in aid of the Royal
Caledonian Schools and the Royal Scottish Corporation. This gathering has become a great meeting-place for Victorians. Notable Old Boys taking part included Pipe-Majors J. B. Robertson and W. MacLeod, judges of the piping and drumming, and Major J. R. Cosgrove, our former Administrative Officer, judge of the Highland dancing. J. M. Robertson won three prizes in the piping events ;
and Alex. Robertson, a member of the London Scottish Rugby Football Club was a steward. Earlier, in April there was the 26th Annual Piping Competition of the Scottish Piping Society of London, where that distinguished piper, Pipe-Major J. B. Robertson, late Scots Guards, was also a judge, and his son had third prize for March, Strathspey and Reel, for the Society's Bronze Star. Another performer was Andrew Hill, a talented young member of the School's present pipe band, who won second place in the Amateur Piobaireachd for the London Highland Club Challenge Cup.
An inquiry from Mr Grassick to the School was about G. C. Morris, an Old Boy formerly living near
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