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IN MEMORIAM We regret to report the deaths of the following Old Clayesmorians and former staff:
HAROLD STENNET HOLLOWAY (1941) He died in January 2019. Harold was rather short-sighted and unable to join the Navy as he would have liked. It was only towards the end of the war that he served on minesweepers and was able to assist in clearing mines for D-Day. He later joined the family business, E R Holloway (aka Barnet Combs), with his brother, Albert. Harold married Verena in 1951 and had five children. Towards the end of his long life, he suffered from Alzheimer’s.
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We remember him fondly, he was a good dad and loved playing with us all and was a good story-teller. Andrew Holloway, son
KENNETH E LINGWOOD (1942) He died on 27 June 2019. His ashes were scattered by the lake at Clayesmore in July. Flight Lieutenant Kenneth E Lingwood 01/12/1924 - 27/06/2019 Ken attended Clayesmore Prep and Senior Schools from 1933 – 1942. On leaving, he joined the Royal Armoured Corps and was commissioned at Sandhurst in 1944, seeing action in Burma with the 7th Light Cavalry (14th army).
After the war, he served as an ADC to Lord Mountbatten in India, then returned to England after independence, training as a gunner in the Royal Artillery and then as a pilot. In 1949, he married Jean and they went on to have twins, David and Susan and six years later another son, William. Both David and William are Old Clayesmorians (1968 and 1973 respectively). Ken flew with the Army in Egypt, Eritrea, Cyprus, Jordan and other Middle Eastern countries. He was transferred to the RAF in 1956 and trained as an air traffic controller serving in Aden, Salalah and Germany.
W GEORGE BROOKBANK (1942) He was born in Hull in 1925 and died of natural causes at his home in Tucson, Arizona, in March 2018. He was always keen to tell stories of his time at Clayesmore and remembered it very fondly. On one of our family trips to England in the 1980s, he took us there and we had a nice tour. He was surprised to see the skeleton of a swan hanging from the ceiling in a biology classroom and remembered finding the dead swan one winter and putting it all together as a skeleton. For us, it was nice to see the skeleton of the swan “flying”.
He retired from the RAF in 1972 and continued working in air traffic control for Marconi in Kent and British Aerospace in Saudi Arabia. When he eventually retired, he returned to Dorset and lived in Shaftesbury for many years before moving to Kent and latterly, after Jean’s death, to Bournemouth. Ken and Jean enjoyed their retirement, they loved holidays and spending time with their children, five grandchildren and more recently their four great grandchildren, all of whom were present at Clayesmore where we scattered his ashes.
Harold Holloway
Anne Lingwood (daughter-in-law)
CHARLES C BALCH (1942) Dr Charles Clive Balch died in Spain last May, aged 94. Kenneth Lingwood