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Name	Entry Form	Age	Address
Howell James Jones Leonard Clifford Price David Tudor Jones Clifford Eldon Abraham Edward G Couldrey David Thomas David William Wynn Davies Howell Davies Raymond Humphreys Dennis Aneurin Hughes Evans Thomas John Evans Daniel Caradog Jones David Penry Jones Idris Jones Mervyn Jones Geraint Lewis Leonard John Morris † Griffith Howell Powell John Aubrey Reynolds David John Rees Hugh Armand-Ellis Wigley Dewi Williams David Tudor Williams Noah Williams Thomas Williams John Aubrey Davies Erwyd Evans † Evan Mervyn Evans Ninian Shelby James Clifford George John Ieuan Emrys Jones Ralph Jones Walter Thomas Morgan Hugh Glandower George Nichols John Arkite Halewood Phillips Melvyn Rees Talfryn Richards Wilfred George Ruck Henry Herbert Thomas William Mervin Thomas Henry Richard Lloyd Thomas David Thomas Walter Weir Trevor Barnes Reuben Harry Bennett David Beynon John Robert Caldicott John Osborn Davies † Benjamin Albert Dickson Clifford Edwards Alwyn Evans George Henry Everett John Farley Jenkin Griffiths Morgan Richard Hughes Frederick G James Islwyn John Jones William David Jones William John Jones John Leslie Mitchell Cledwyn John Nicholas Jacob Glyndwr Picton John Edward Robertson Ralph Beddoe Stephens Daniel Lloyd George Thomas † Howard Cumberland Thomas Rhys Vivian Thomas William Archie Williams Thomas David Leslie Ingram Herbert Evans	1B 1B 5B 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B 1B - 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1mod 1B 1A	12.5 12.5 17.4 12.4 12.3 12.3 11.3 12.2 12 12 13 11.9 12.1 11.6 12.8 11.9 12.3 11.7 12.6 12.3 11.3 12.7 12.1 12.5 12.4 11 12.4 12.8 12.3 12.4 11.7 12.9 11 11.2 13.5 12.5 12.7 12.4 12.1 13.1 13.1 13.1 12.1 12.5 12.6 13.1 13.6 11.8 12.4 12.8 12.7 11.9 12.8 11.8 13.1 12.6 12.2 13.1 12.4 13.1 11.5 13.9 13.6 13.7 12 11.8 12.4 12.7 13.4	Arba House Brecon Rd, Hirwaun 8 Canon St, Aberdare — 46, Broniestyn Tce, Aberdare 33, Clifton St, Aberdare 14, Fothergill St, Abernant, 8, Greenfield Tce, Cwmbach 40, Herbert St, Aberdare 2, Alma St, Trecynon 44, Wind St, Aberdare 67, Jubilee Rd, Aberaman 22, Clive St, Trecynon 26, Jubilee Rd, Godreaman Gwynfryn, Herbert St, Aberdare 27, Byron St, Cwmaman 322, Cardiff Rd, Aberaman 15, Unity St, Aberdare 27, Merthyr Rd, Hirwaun Morning Star, Ynysllwyd St 249, Cardiff Rd, Aberaman 2, Trevor St, Aberdare 3, Greenfield Tce, Cwmbach Cynon Cottage, Trecynon 13, Gladstone St, Aberaman 7, Highland Place, Aberdare 28, Clifton St, Aberdare 5, Alexandra Tce, Cwmaman 27, Commercial St, Aberdare 10, Glannant St, Aberdare 22, Cemetery Rd, Trecynon 25, Broniestyn Tce, Aberdare 22, Bridge St, Cwmbach 8, Tanybryn St, Aberdare Brookside, Abernant Rd, Aberdare 5, Canon St, Aberdare 55, Pembroke St, Aberdare 14, Gospel Hall Tce, Aberdare 64, Broniestyn Tce, Aberdare 44, Llewellyn St, Aberdare 89, Brook St, Aberaman 20, Philip St, Robertstown 11, Stuart St, Aberdare 7, Dan-y-Deri St, Godreaman 12, Henry St, Aberdare Lletty Caradog, Trecynon 13, Elm Grove, Aberdare 1, Mill St, Trecynon 5, Halford Tce, Cwmdare 35, Gospel Hall Tce, Gadlys 6, Mountain Rd, Cwmaman 29, Glannant St, Hirwaun Mill House, Penderyn 11, Clarence Tce, Aberaman 18, Blaenant-y-Groes, Cwmbach Station House, Llwydcoed 33, Cobden St, Aberaman 96, Brecon Rd, Hirwaun Ivy Bush Inn, Cwmaman 32, Gloucester St, Aberdare 5, Queen St, Cwmdare 9, Clive Place, Trecynon 13, Elm Grove, Aberdare 14, Tanybryn St, Aberdare 26, Council Houses, Cwmaman 23, Cardiff St, Aberdare 8, Pleasant View, Godreaman 48, Oxford St, Aberdare 12, Cross St, Aberdare Gallt-y-Gog Farm, Llwydcoed

 

†These pupils became casualties in WW2.

Leonard John Morris, RA, died 18th September 1942. He is buried in Djakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia.

Erwyd Evans became a school teacher in Poole. During the war on H.M.S. Fiji, as Ord Smn Erwyd Evans RN, he died 23rd May 1941. His name is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

John Osborn Davies was a sergeant in the RAF. He was a wireless operator/air gunner. He was a member of 144 Squadron, Bomber Command. He died on 2nd April 1942 after his plane was shot down near Lastrup in northern Germany. He is buried in Becklingen War Cemetery, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Daniel L.G. Thomas was a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. He died on 7th October 1944, and is buried in Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

 

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All the boys in the list above started school in the autumn of 1923 except for Howell James Jones, Leonard Clifford Price and David Tudor Jones who arrived in the spring term or summer term of 1923.

Notes

Walter Thomas Morgan has an entry in the Former Pupils section of this website.
 

Daniel Caradog Jones, (1911–1988), was brought up in Trecynon. He left school with a three-year Rees Llewellyn Scholarship at UCW Aberystwyth, where he later graduated in mathematics. After teaching posts with the London County Council, he joined the RAF in 1941 and became an education officer. On demobilisation, he joined the staff at ABGS in 1945. He left in the spring of 1957 for a post at Penarth Grammar School.

Raymond Humphreys Dennis was the son of E.R. Dennis, the minister at Hen Dŷ Cwrdd Unitarian Chapel from 1916 to 1945, and successful producer of numerous plays at the Little Theatre on the Gadlys.

Idris Jones was the brother of Trefor Jones who has an entry in the Former Pupils section of this website.

Hugh Wigley attained a Higher Certificate in double mathematics and physics in 1929, and then went to UCW Aberystwyth. He became a schoolteacher and lived for the latter part of his adult life in Graig Isaf, Monk Street, Aberdare.

John Arkite Halewood Phillips was the brother of P.E.Phillips a long-serving master at the school. His father Arkite Phillips was a musician and proprietor of a music shop in Canon Street. The middle name of Halewood reflects the close relationship to the Halewood family of boot and shoe makers based in Aberdare.

 

 

Parental Occupations

Assistant Relieving Officer, Bookseller, Builder’s General Foreman, Butcher, Checkweigher, Coal Factor, Coal Miners 14, Colliery Charge Haulier, Colliery Examiner, Colliery Fireman, Colliery Overman, Colliery Repairers 3, Colliery Shotman, Colliery Stores Manager, Employee of GWR, Engine Drivers 3, Engineman, Farmers 2, Fruit Merchant, Ganger Man, Hair-dresser (dec’d), House Decorator, Inn-keeper, Innkeeper (dec’d), Insurance Agent, Insurance Agent (dec’d), Ironmonger, Leather Merchant, Mechanic on GWR, Minister of Religion, Musician, Pharmacist, Railway Signalman, Sadler (dec’d), Schoolmasters 6, Sick Visitor, Solicitor, Solicitor’s Clerk (dec’d), Station Master, Station Master (dec’d), Tailor, Timberman, Tlme-keeper on farm, Veterinary Surgeon, Wholesale Confectioner.
 

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