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T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
Dates for your Diary
2015:
10th December – Illuminā: on Meads.
2016:
29th January – Under 25s Dinner: at the
Army & Navy Club, Pall Mall.
27th February – XVs: Commoners vs.
OTH: kick off at 2.30pm on College
Canvas.
27th February – 40 Years-on Reunion
Dinner for the Classes of ’75,’76 &’77: in
Winchester after XVs; tea, Div hour in
Chantry, drinks, Chapel etc.
12th March – VIs: Commoners vs. OTH:
kick off at 2.30pm on College Canvas.
12th March – 50 Years-on Reunion
Lunch for the Classes of ’65,’66 & ’67: in
Winchester after a Div hour in Chantry;
Drinks and Lunch before VIs, followed by
tea.
13th March – Laying up of Life Guards
Standard – parade and Chapel service: in
Winchester.
17th March – 20 Years-on reunion Dinner
for Classes of ’95, ’96 & ’97: at the
Cavalry and Guards Club in London.
20th March – OW Win Co Fo
Tournament: in Winchester.
24th April – Don Soc Lunch: in
Winchester.
9-12th May – OW Great War
Commemorative visit to the Somme
battlefield.
26th May – Parents’ Summer Drinks
Party: in London.
18th June
Winchester Match:
Ticketed lunch on New Field;
OWCC v. Lords and 2nd XI.
2nd July – Domum.
9th September – Wykeham Patrons
Annual Dinner: in Winchester.
10th September – Goddard Day: in
Winchester.
22nd September – 30 Years-on Reunion
Dinner for the Classes of ’85, ’86 & ’87:
at the Cavalry and Guards Club in London.
24th – 28th September – Wykeham
Patrons trip to Spain: in the footsteps of
George Steer.
11th October – 65+ Years-on Reunion
Lunch for the Classes of 1951 and
onwards: at the Cavalry and Guards Club
in London.
11th October – Reception for Parents of
JP and MP men: at the Royal College of
Surgeons of England in London.
18th October – 25-45s Reunion Dinner:
at the Cavalry and Guards Club in London.
TBC – OW Bristol & Bath Dinner.
10th November – 60 Years-on Reunion
Lunch for the Classes of ’55, ’56 & ’57:
at the Cavalry and Guards Club in London.
TBC – Edinburgh Dinner.
1st December – Win Coll Soc Council
Dinner: at the Cavalry and Guards Club in
London.
9th December – Illuminā: on Meads
2017:
20th January – Under 25s Dinner: at the
Army & Navy Club, Pall Mall.
9th February – OW Guilds Dinner: at the
Cavalry and Guards Club in London.
27th April – 20 Years-on Reunion Dinner
for the Classes of ’96, ’97 and ’98: at the
Cavalry and Guards Club in London.
Future House 150th
Anniversaries:
In 2018: Kenny’s and Freddie’s,
In 2019: Chawker’s, Phil’s, Trant’s and
Hopper’s
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40
OW Great War
Commemorative visit
to the Ypres Salient
11th to 14th September,
2017
Michael Wallis (Chairman of the
WW1 Commemoration Committee) is
leading this trip and has already had to
make a provisional hotel reservation!
He has chosen the Hotel Ariane at the
heart of Ypres and a mortar shell
trajectory from the Cloth Hall and the
Menin Gate. However, the hotel can
hold these rooms only until 1st April,
2016: the pressure on all forms of
accommodation in and around Ypres is
extraordinary, given the up-coming
hundredth anniversary of the 3rd Battle
of Ypres and the taking of
Passchendaele. Even more
Wykehamists fought and died in the
battles around Ypres than on the
Somme in 1916.
The tour will cover all the main
Wykehamical battle sites: we will look
at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, the Messines
Ridge mines and 3rd Ypres. We will also
visit the largest German cemetery in the
Salient, retracing parts of Adolf Hitler’s
visit there in late June of 1940. Further
outline details are available from
[email protected].
Should you wish to be included in the
2017 Ypres battlefield tour, Michael will
need a non-refundable deposit of £50
per head so that he can secure this
accommodation. He appreciates that
asking for a deposit two years in
advance may seem over the top.
Cheques should be made payable to
‘Winchester College’ and sent the Win
Coll Soc office. A maximum of 50
places will be filled on a first-come, firstserved basis; from past experience of
such battlefield tours, they can be filled
within just a fortnight!