THE DAVENANT FOUNDATION GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Subtitle: THE WAR YEARS 1939 - 1945
Contributors: OLD BOYS OF THE DAVENANT FOUNDATION GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 1939 - 1945
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR BIOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH
Published: 2000
Place of publication: United States
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 162
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: WORLD WAR II GRAMMAR SCHOOLBOYS MEMOIRS; DAVENANT FOUNDATION GRAMMAR SCHOOL, LONDON; CHATTERIS, CAMBRIDGESHIRE; WHITECHAPEL , LONDON; EVACUATION IN WARTIME
Genres: MEMOIRS - WORLD WAR II; LETTERS
Other titles: OLD BOY MEMOIRS
Work titles: A COLLECTION OF MEMOIRS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR SCHOOL STUDENTS DURING THE WAR, ENGLAND ,  1939 - 1945
First sentence: It is now over 70 years since Mr J.R.Evans and Mr R. Reynolds, both Headmasters of the School, jointly published " A HISTORY OF THE DAVENANT FOUNDATION SCHOOL"  in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Foundation of the School in 1680. Later, in the nineteen sixties, Mr Roland Reynolds produced a more comprehensive history in two volumes. It is in Book 2, Chapter 2 of this work that he recounts some of the events of that most dramatic period in the history, not only of the School itself, but of the whole country. Then London children and older boys were evacuated from the Metropolis to escape the yet unknown perils of aerial bomb- bardment. Nothing has been written since, and this publication is intended to bring to life those War Years from 1939 - 1945 in terms of a compilation of Memoirs of some of the Davenant boys who were evacuated on that sad first day of September in 1939 to the Fenlands of Cambridgeshire.
Description: Memoirs include accounts by : Percy Bronstein (1935-1940); Alec Bernstein (1936-1941); Morris Vexter (1936-1940); Phil Girshick Gordon (1937-1943); Arnold Cohen Crawford (1938-1943); John Isaacs (1938-1943); Cyril Krimgoltz Holt (1938-1942); David Liban (1938-1943); Arnold Zimmerman (1938-1940) -(1945-1946); Morris Berkovitch (1939-1942); Sidney Cohen Carson (1939-1945); Walter Clayton (1939-1940); Stacey Day (1939 - 1946); Norman Gold (1939 - 1946); Alfred Heinzdorf Haines (1939-1943); Bertrand (Bob) Day (1940-1941); Dennis Bloom (Bloomberg) (1941-1946); Lionel Lassman )1943-1946); Sam Shuster (1943-1946);Samuel Colman Melnick (1944-1952); APPENDIX 1. Charles Kirshenberg (Kaye) (1933-1939); Laurie Rosenberg (1935 -1938); Arnold Silverstein (Silvester) (1935 - 1939); Michael Leifer (1945-1953); David Groffman (1956-1963);Jack Blitz (1933-1940). Letters from Bernard Statman (1938-1943);Michael Kosky (1945-1949); Charlie Roberts (1951-1957).
Notes: Included are the CREST OF THE DAVENANT FOUNDATION SCHOOL; The School Hymn - FORTY YEARS ON; Photographs of Chatteris; Two photos from the IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON - (1) AIR RAID SHELTER in vaults of SYNAGOGUE corner of Fournier St. and Brick Lane; (2)  Man Sleeping in Cellar Vault of Synagogue. During Air Raids it was customary for Elders to read bibles there. Letter to THE TIMES (26th September 1939) , page 7, entitled THE MIND IN WAR from SIR WILFRED TROTTER (Surgeon). Reproductions of School Speech Day Programmes 1937 - 1939 given by: His Excellency The Chinese Ambassador (1937); Alderman Charles Robertson (1938); A.E. CLARK - KENNEDY, Dean of the London Hospital Medical College, (1939). The Editor attended the Commemorative Service for the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the School in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1980, attended by the Queen. At least four Old Boys were killed by enemy action. Another, Norman Kaminsky (1938 - 1940) was killed in an air raid; Flying Officer Gerald Mantus was killed by a V2 rocket while home on leave. One teacher killed in action (Army).
Table of contents: title: PREFACE; title: INTRODUCTION; title: OLD BOY MEMOIRS; title: APPENDIX; title: DAVENANT FRONTAGE ON WHITECHAPEL ROAD; title: 1873 MAP OF WHITECHAPEL ROAD; title: EXTRACTS FROM THE CROMWELL SCHOOL LOG, CHATTERIS, 1939; title: DAVENANT DRAMA GROUP IN CHATTERIS; title: BARMITZVAH IN CHATTERIS BY MR ROSEN, 1941; title: FLT. Lt. GIPSON - AWAREDED DFC; title: PHOTOGRAPH OF HEADMASTER MR R. REYNOLDS AND STAFF; title: HON. CLEMENT ATTLEE, BOARD MEMBER, DAVENANT FOUNDATION SCHOOL; title: POST WAR SCHOOL  - SEVERELY DAMAGED DURING AIR RAIDS; title: EDITORIAL NOTES