Sports day 1931

Sports day 1925

The sports day results from 1925 featuring the ubiquitous Coote brothers.

Sports Day 1916

1916 Sports day including chariot race, blind horseback race and crab race. Note there was no timing, results in the athletics are given as distances.

1917 Sports Day

Football from 1977

1975 Football team

Photo of the under 13 football team in 1975 taken at Loop Road.

Memories of an old boy

William Inder (one of the first intake of pupils) reminisces about his school days from his first day at school in 1914.

Gallantry medals

Old Wokingians who were awarded medals (or mentioned in dispatches) in WW2 (page in progress):

• A. F. Bathurst - BEM, MID
• E. H. Fox - DFM
• W. Fraser - MC
• W. B. Gingell - DFC, DFM
• J. L. Goode - MID
• V. G. Grylls - DFC
• H. O. F. Humphries - MID
• T. F. E. Johnson - DFM
• E. F. Nind - DFC
• J. F. Painter - DFC
• R. F. Sellers* - AFC 
• P. J. S. Shaughnessy - DFC, AFC
• H. W. Small - MID
• N. K. Turner - DSC
• P. Wade - BEM
• E. J. Ware - DFM
• R. H. Willis - DFM

*Battle of Britain pilot.

1918/1919 Group photo

The Wokingian - July 1960

A scanned copy of the school magazine, The Wokingian can be found HERE

581 Boys on the register. Among one of the more interesting mentions is R. H. G. Mellersh who left the school in 1958 being awarded his tennis blue at Oxford. He lost in 3 sets to Larry Nagler of the USA in the first round of the 1960 US Open at Forest Hills, New York probably his only Grand Slam appearance.

The Wokingian - Summer 1954

A scanned copy of the school magazine, The Wokingian can be found HERE

503 Boys on the register, along with the usual sports results there are details of school trips to Italy and France and the return of Roderic Coote an Old Boy who was at the time Bishop of Gambia.

1936 Senior Football Team

1936 Senior Football Team. Photo taken in upper playground.

Horace (Philip) Black and Teddy Johnson were both killed in flying accidents while testing planes in WW2.

Roll of Honour

Incomplete list of Old Wokingians killed, decorated or captured during WW2. I'm not sure why Cyril Horwood has been scratched from the list because he was killed on a training flight at RAF Leuchers in 1941.

1938 Senior Football Team

1938 Senior Football Team. Photo taken in upper playground.

A very sad photo. No less than six of these boys were killed in WW2.

Horace (Phil) Black, Gordon Carden, Ronald Horwood, John Underhill, Denys Cooper and Derek Lord.

1938 Rugby First XV

1938 Rugby first XV. Photo taken in the upper playground.

Gordon Carden, Horace (Phil) Black, Derek Lord and Teddy Johnson were all killed in WW2.

1939 School Prefects

1939 School Prefects. Photo taken in the upper playground.

Norman Pronger and Ronald Horwood were both killed in WW2.

1939 Senior Rugby XV

1939 Senior Rugby XV. Photo taken in the upper playground.

Gordon Carden, Ronald Horwood and Derek Lord were all killed in WW2.