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Winchester College Tablemats and
Coasters
We are delighted to offer an opportunity
to purchase tablemats and coasters, the
sale of which will assist the Winchester
College Khaltse 2017 team to raise the
funds to complete the construction of
school accommodation in Ladakh. All
profits from the sales will go to the Lotus
Flower Trust, a charity which aims to
change children’s lives forever. The 2017
expedition will be the School’s eighth
consecutive year working with the Trust,
and will see the completion of the fourth
major project assisting children from
deprived backgrounds.
T he T rusty S ervant
Please access the order form from the
Win Coll Soc website news page (www.
wincollsoc.org/news/wincollsoc-news) and
pay either electronically or by cheque.
Otherwise, please look for the mats on the
Lotus Flower Trust stand at Winchester
Match where they will be both on sale
and available for collection.
Chapel Choir News
Cantores Episcopi are due to release
a new CD, Amate: Love Songs in Close
Harmony, which will be available in time
for Winchester Match this year.
Cataloguing of silver
We are looking for help with the
cataloguing of a significant collection
of silver salt spoons, which covers every
year from 1779 to 1910. If such a project
is of interest to any OW, please would
they make contact with Alex Roe at
[email protected].
Trusty Servant Antiques
A reminder that ODN White (G, 97–02)
manages Trusty Servant Antiques, an
online business dealing in antiques
and collectibles relating to Winchester
College. From antiquarian books and
rare manuscripts to collectable silver
and porcelain, Trusty Servant Antiques
has the ideal gift to remind the Old
Wykehamist of his time at the School.
Oliver has kindly agreed to make a
donation to the Bursary Fund of a
percentage of the gross profit made on
sales to OWs or others connected with
the school, so please be sure to mention
your connection to him!
www.trustyservantantiques.com.
Two designs are available as a mat or
coaster: the Trusty Servant; and the
College Crest. They are supplied in
elegant boxes of four, comprising all of
one design or a mixture of both. The
tablemats are 11 ½” x 8 ½” and the
coasters are 4” square. They are priced as
follows:
Box of four Tablemats: £60
Box of four Coasters: £35
Once paid for, your mats will be available
for collection at Winchester Match or, if
you prefer, will be posted before the end
of June 2017. Delivery charges will apply.
1918: the British Army’s march to victory.
From 17 th to 20 th September 2018,
Michael Wallis and James Webster plan
to take a tour retracing the great battle
before Amiens in August 1918 and the
turning of the tide, with the eventual
break-through of the Hindenburg
line in September. As before, we shall
explore this on the ground and through
the experiences and lives of the Old
Wykehamists who fought in this final
phase of the Great War.
8 th August 1918 was described by
Ludendorff as ‘the Black Day of the
German Army’. This was the day when
the British Army, along with the Imperial
Forces from Canada and Australia,
started pushing back the German Army.
This initiated a period of constant
advance by combined arms tactics,
which could not have been in greater
contrast to 1 st July 1916 or the misery of
Passchendaele in November 1917.
We shall stay in the provincial town of
Péronne with its wonderful Historial
de la Grande Guerre museum. We shall
look at the fighting beyond Péronne and
before the St Quentin canal bringing the
battles to life. This is the final part of our
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trilogy of battlefield tours, concluding
our centenary commemorations of the
Great War. All participants will need to
travel as a group with Eurostar.
If you would like to register for this last
Great War battlefield tour please send
a non-refundable deposit of £50 per
person, payable to Winchester College
Society, to the Win Coll Soc office.