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Jane Luckett (88-96) played for Humberside and
North of England U15 Hockey XIs before gaining
a national trial. The Under-13 girls’ sevens won a
tournament in Hull.
Tom Beal (87-97) won the Yorkshire Junior Golf
Match play competition and reached the semi-finals
of the Yorkshire U21 Golf competition. The golf team
reached the national final of the HMC Foursome
Competition, finishing eighth overall.
POCKLINGTON SCHOOL
TEACHERS REMEMBER FALLEN
OP IN CANADA
Pocklington School teachers, Hannah and Andy
Towner, recently honoured a fallen OP whilst on
holiday in Vancouver Island, Canada.
They visited the Duncan Cenotaph in Charles Hoey
Park in July and laid a wreath to remember OP
Charles Hugh Pearson Lipscomb who settled in
Cowichan Valley, before enlisting as a soldier during
the First World War. Hannah and Andy’s visit was
reported in the Cowichan Valley Citizen on 23 July
and noted the following details from Lipscomb’s life:
“Lipscomb was born in 1880, the son of a parson,
and educated at Pocklington School [where he was
captain of cricket for three years and the 1st XI
when the school played football, not rugby]. He left
school in 1898 and emigrated to Canada in 1908.
He settled in the Cowichan Valley and then the
city of Duncan, working first for the Cowichan
Creamery Association before becoming a partner in
the Cameron Farmers’ Exchange of Hilliers’ Crossing.
Andrew Holloway (92-00) won the National
Triathlon for his age-group and was 12th in the
National Biathlon.
In the County Athletic Championships Robert
Parsons (84-94) won the high jump and was
second in the 110m hurdles. Richard Poskitt
(93-98) won the junior 80m hurdles and
was second in the 100m. Anthony Emmet
(87-94) was second in the senior javelin. All
were chosen to represent Humberside.
Trips, visits, excursions and tours went to Paris,
Morzine, Burgundy, the Ardèche, and Euro
Disney in France, to Wales, The Lakes, Oxford,
Derbyshire, Coningsby, Warcop, Alton Towers,
Venice and Austria.
As well as playing football for Duncan, Lipscomb
joined the Cowichan Cricket Club and, in a famous
match in 1912, he scored 103 in a score of 333
to three.
He enlisted in July, 1916, and was eventually drafted
to England to join the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles.
Lipscomb took part in the Vimy Ridge attack as part
of the Battle of Arras in April, 1917, when he was
wounded and evacuated.
He died in the Australian Hospital at Boulogne on
April 18, aged 36. He left a widow and two children
under the age of four.
Lipscomb is buried in Wimereux Cemetery in
France, two rows away from the grave of John
McCrae, author of the well-known war poem In
Flanders Fields.
The Towners also presented a plaque of the
Pocklington School crest to the Cowichan Cricket
Club in memory of Lipscomb.
Andy said: “Hannah and I were glad we had the
honour of laying this wreath in memory of Hugh.
He continued: “It was also great to meet some of the
members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 53,
who were so helpful in arranging this tribute.”
STAFF RUGBY TEAM
Who remembers the staff rugby
team who took on the parents in
c.2001?
See if you recognise them all.
Answers on page 30.
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