I have just had your website brought to my attention by an old school friend.
What a great site! I was a student at FGS from 1963 to 1971. My eldest brother Neil was also at
FGS. He went on to study medicine at St. Thomas’s and later became a surgeon at Nottingham
but was sadly killed in a mountaineering accident in Switzerland in 1977.
Having been a Junior Under Officer with good old Major Thomas (the PT teacher
and commandant of the CCF) I went on to Sandhurst and spent 27 years in the Army
serving in our county regiment, the Royal Hampshires. I was one of a group of
boys who sang in the Crookham church choir where
Nuncs was the organist. There
was also a group of us who kept our canoes in his back garden as his house was
close to the Basingstoke Canal.
I left the Army in 2000 and migrated to Australia. I now live in Canberra. I
still have my old FGS school tie but that is about it! Great site – thank you
Trevor Finklaire MBE : April 2012