Minchenden School War Memorial
Description
A 52 page A4 illustrated book by Eileen Bostle published in 2024. The Minchenden School war memorial board, which is now in the Museum of Enfield collection, was made of oak from a tree in the school grounds by pupils under the supervision of their woodwork teacher and unveiled at a Memorial and Dedication service led by the vicar of Christ Church Southgate on Sunday 2 November 1947. It shows the names of 53 former pupils who died in service in the Second World War and two pupils still at the school who were killed in V2 attacks, inscribed in gold on three panels. The book comprises biographies of all 55 people and photographs of several of them and is based on in depth research into their local connections, school careers and wartime service by the author, herself a former Minchenden pupil.
The Fallen: Ramsey Mcintosh Aitken, Cyril Denis Barker, Stanley Herbert Barr, Marion Miriam Belasco, Geoffrey George Bell, Anthony David Bell, Arthur George Bellefontaine, Donald Vincent Bingham-Hall, Peter Anthony Colin Brooks, William Charles Bush, Gordon Alan Corrall, Maurice Ronald Day, Hubert Dunstan Dinmore, Robert William Duarte, Harold Thomas Faircloth M.M., John Rowland Feirn, Raymond Arthur Fenner, Dennis Robert Fursse, Philip Louis Hall, David Alfred Herring, Geoffrey William Hird, Eric John Charles Howard, Horace Peter Hurnell, John King, Leonard John Kingwell, Peter Merridith Kinsey D.F.M, George Desmond Kirkby, Kenneth Douglas Francis Lacey, Francis John Lawson, John Frank Marsh, John Vivian Mitchell, Lewis Arnold Moore, John Keith Murray, Denis O'shea, Victor Wilfred Piedot, Alfred William George Pretlove, David Joseph Rawlinson, Douglas William Reid, William Ernest Thomas Ringham, John Laughton Rodwell, Charles Gordon Rowlandson, Reginald Frederick Schooley, Gordon Joseph Smale, Leslie Joseph Dozell Smith, Edward James Douglas Stanley, Donald James Taylor, Basil Leonard Thornton, Lionel Denis Traylen, Ronald Forster Wardle, Gordon James Webb, Peter Reynolds West, Leslie Ernest Williams, Roy George Woodger, Philip Hugh Worthington.
