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Aberdare Boys’ Grammar School

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Names of pupils who were in the 1937 Entry

from School Records

1 Alpha

1 A

Ronald David Bannister
William Edgar Job Birch
Idwal Brown
Colin James Burrows
Ronald Davies
William Mervyn Dennis
Walter Randal Donovan
Haydn Edwards
Tudor Russell Evans
Wyndham Bowen Evans
Donald Foster
David Charles Melville Godsall
Alfred John Gosney
William Frederick Morgan Greenway
Robert Howard Griffiths
Raymond George Gubb
Raymond Hallett
Gwilym John Hamer
William Rosser Harry
William Higginson
Ronald Howells
Gwyn Jones
Gordon Alfred James Kirkby
Ernest John Lewis
John Butt Lewis
David Arthur Newcombe
Ronald Rees
William Howard Rees
Conway Brian Richards
Peter Powell Roderick
Cyril Sweet
Desmond Warren Tennant
Edward Lynne Thomas
Ronald Richard Edward Thomas
Frank Wilfred Vining
Reginald Worth
John Rees

David James Bowen
Thomas Idnerth Burrows
Lenard Cummings
Alwyn Davies
Enoch Evan Davies
Ieuan Davies
Meirion Davies
Merlyn Evans
Alfred George Harlow
Maldwyn Harris
Asa Hughes
Frederick John James
David Reginald Jenkins
Elwyn Johnson
Douglas Roy Lewis
Denis Manser
Thomas Howard Mills
David Henry Phillips
John Daniel Powell
Thomas Price
William Glyndwr Price
Raymond Pugh
William Crawnon Pugh
John Rees
Phillip Trevor Saunders (Amies)
Edward James Thomas
Elfed Wilson Thomas
John Thomas
Kenneth Alexander Thomas
Kenneth Handley Thomas
John Gilbey Watkins
Islwyn Williams
Leslie Cecil Williams

A few of the boys in these lists can be seen in this photograph of Form 3A in 1939

The occupations of the fathers’ of these boys included,
colliers 18; other colliery occupations 5; but unemployed 17.

In addition to the pupils entering Form 1, there were additional pupils entering higher forms, as follows:

Form 3 Alpha

David Beynon Thomas

Form 4 Alpha

Oswald Williams

Trevor David Tasker

Form 5 Alpha — all these boys transferred from Gadlys Central School

Louis Abraham
Ewart Byron Rees
Gwynfor Harris

Gwyndar David Griffiths
Gwyn Gower

Form 6 Alpha

Ieuan Glyndwr Williams