I am enclosing a floppy disc kindly created by my son-in-law of a photograph
of the 1951 junior and senior Prices Army Cadet sides which both won the country
titles of that year. A report of the results and team members appeared in the
Lion of July 1951.
I have struggled with some of the names, but as far as I can recall, through
the mists of time, are as follows, with the junior side in the white shirts.
Rear- Porter? / Spencer? / ? / Williams / Tony Purkis / David Williams / Patrick
Nobes
Middle- Judd? / ? / Barr? / ? / Teddy Byng / Bruce Moulson / Brian Byng /
Rudling / Dimmock
Front- Collins? / Adams / ? / Percival / Peter Gregory / Brian Cozens / Rex
Stubbington/ A J White.
Perhaps Patrick Nobes or someone else of that era could help with other
names.
Gerry Grant suggests that these amendments:
Rear- Porter? / ? / ? / Williams / Tony Purkis / David Williams /
Patrick Nobes
Middle- Martin Judd/ ? / Barr? / Wassell (corrected to Glyn
James) / Teddy Byng / Bruce Moulson / Brian Byng / Rodney BAKER
/ NOT sure this is Dimmock (corrected to Keith Devlin)
Front- Collins? / Adams / Rodney Porter / Percival / Peter
Gregory / Brian Cozens / Rex Stubbington/ A J White.
Mr Sec
A couple of additions to the soccer photo.
Between Barr and Teddy Byng is Glyn James.
Next to Brian Byng (on the other side from Moulson) are
Rodney Baker and Keith Devlin
Some other anons have faces I can remember, but can't
recall names. (One or two cannot possibly have been at the school!)
A fine body of boys!
David Williams recalls the competition:
Hi Michael,
I’m pretty certain that the second from
left back row is Ron Spencer. Having played in the senior eleven I am
glad someone has corrected the original selection of names. If my
memory serves me well we beat the Aldershot XI in the semi-final by 3 goals
to 1 and they included a number of England and County schoolboy
representatives. The final was a bit one sided and we won by a wide
margin. It is the first time I have seen the photograph; obviously my
mother thought better of buying it!
Regards,
David Williams
Hi
Michael,
Further to the ACF county football final winners’ photograph provided by Bruce
Moulson I can reveal this is team photograph taken at a later date on the school
grounds. The senior eleven one does not include David Rudling and Roger
Dimmick who played in the final winning eleven won incidentally by beating Alton 11-0. Patrick
Nobes, Rodney Baker and Keith Devlin who appear in the photograph had played in
earlier rounds along with Dore, Wadey and Weyman who do not feature. This
helps to explain to some degree by only ten players appear in the team’s strip
as I believe Rodney Baker was the reserve for the final.
The junior final winner team did include Clark and Hansford. I am pretty
sure that the second player in the middle row is Hansford whilst Wassell is
certainly the fourth player in that row. As there are twelve players in the
photograph one has to assume
Regards,
David Williams