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Badges Wanted for archives cap badge collection

Seated-figure badges with a white or red surround (the red is has usually become quite dark and faded).

Burning-bush badges with black surround (said to be a boarder’s badge).

High-scoring cricket partnerships

Tyson Yeo (101 n.o.) and Tom Gelling (113 n.o.) put on 244 for the 5th wicket v St Kevin’s in February last year. (They took the score from 4 /124 to 4 /368 in 34 overs.)

Where does 244 for a partnership stand among other Scotch First XI partnerships? Your memories please!

The Junior School Hymn

Do you have the words? Do you have a recording?

Littlejohn Chapel recording with Norman Kaye playing and conducting. Do you have this record?

Merchant navy

I have also asked www.ww2roll.gov.au to add the following men who served in the merchant marine:

Keith Alston (1932)

Keith served as a radio operator, having trained at the Marconi School in Sydney.

William Bruce Bier (1941)

John Chadwick Chapman (1939). Days after leaving school he sailed as a deck boy to England, earning 3/- (30 cents) for the trip. Rose to Master by war’s end.

Gordon Keith Guthrie (1918), son of a Master Mariner

William Mackay Hutchinson (1918). An engineer in the Shaw, Saville Line before the war. He died on 13 August 1942 when Germans bombs exploded his ship, M.V. Waimarama, carrying fuel to Malta; he has no known grave.

Robert Charles Thompson Jobling (1936)

Dr Harry Kendall (‘Ken’) Pawsey (1929), son of a Scotch teacher.

Solved! The mystery of the missing coat of arms

The mystery of the metal coat of arms – featured on page 78 of the May issue of Great Scot – has been solved, thanks to Scotch past parent, Jennifer Graham.

Jennifer wrote to Great Scot after she saw our item about the coat of arms which a Scotch mother had brought to the Scotch Archives. Because her son had taken the item some years earlier, the parent had declined to say who she was, to protect her son’s identity.

Great Scot asked if anyone recognised the object, and Jennifer Graham – mother of James (’99) – responded. Here’s part of what she said:

‘This coat of arms was one of two made to attach at each end of a bench chair donated to Scotch College in 2000 in memory of my father-in-law, Robert Stewart Graham (’42).

‘The labourers and staff of Graham Campbell Ferrum made the bench chair in memory of Robert Stewart Graham, who was their employer and chairman, and who died in 1999. The two coats of arms were stolen/borrowed not long after it was placed outside the old boys’ office. It would be wonderful for the coat of arms to be placed back in its intended place.

‘My husband, Peter Stewart Graham (’72), has taken his father’s place as chairman of Graham Campbell Ferrum, and our son James now also works in the family business as the up-and-coming fourth generation.’

The seat – well used and appreciated – is still in place, under cover on the east side of the Randall Building at Scotch. Discussions are taking place on the best way to re-affix the coat of arms, to deter future theft.

Let’s hope that the coat of arms’ twin does reappear, like the first. Can you help? GS