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| Description | 1. Summer 2019, issue 43.
2. Winter 2019, issue 44. This includes articles listed below:
Jeff Harris 'Life after SCEA'
Ian Stoter 'Closure of King’s School – summer 2019'
Tom Nielsen-Marsh 'Ghosts of Christmases Past'
Mike Bennett 'Fussball in Deutschland'
Paul Macardle 'Origins of Education for the Children of Military Personnel – 1675-1945'
'Visit to Kashmir' Jane Tull.
3. Summer 2020, issue 46.
4. Spring 2021, issue 48.
5. Summer 2021, issue 49 This issue is available digitally upon request.
6. Spring 2020, issue 45. This includes articles listed below:
Sue Adams (Charlottenburg School) 'Fall of the Wall in Berlin'
Derek Ebbage 'Moving Times' (The Havel)
Ken Jones OBE 'News from the Chair'
Mike Bennett 'Rosenmontag 1983 & others!'
David Arden 'Malayan Jungle Camps at Dorset School 1969'
Paul Macardle 'Creation of BFES'. This issue is also available digitally upon request.
7. Winter 2020, issue 47 This issue is only available digitally upon request.
8. Summer 2022, issue 52. Articles include:
'The harder you work the harder it is to surrender!'
'Royal Visit to East Shalowford', Sue Adams
'Three Early BFES Experiences, cont.' - extended account of what life was like for young teachers in Germany after the war, Bernard Allen
'The Rest as they say, is History' –The life & closures of Rheindahlen Military Complex, JHQ, photographs & articles, Tom Nielsen-Marsh
'Memories of Churchill School & Verden', Jean & Sarah Allen (1972)
'Another Time Another Place', Monika Gruber (1950s Berlin)
'The Man Who Saved the World 1983' book review, Mike Bennett
'Inspection & Advisory Service Gathering 2002', Tom Nielsen-Marsh
'Pasir Panjang Junior School, Singapore 1965', Pat O’Dwyer (pupil from St John’s School, Singapore)
'Hub Location & Activities', Christine Richie (Association Membership Secretary) & Sue Adams
'Witnesses to a Vanished Past', Tom and Maureen Nielsen-Marsh recounting a lunch with Bill Johnston
'Last Word', Mike Chislett.
9. Winter 2021, issue 50. This issue is marking 75 years of Education for Service Children 1946 – 2021. It includes articles listed below:
Ken Jones OBE 'Hiraeth' - 6 page reminiscnces of working for the BFES
Brian Davies (last Headteacher of Windsor School, JHQ) 'A list of Headteachers of Service Secondary Schools based in BFG'
Monika Gruber 'Letter from Berlin', a look at life in Berlin at end of WW2
Update by Dr Grace Huxford on British Military Bases in Germany oral history project 'Living on a Cold War Frontier'
Bernard Allen 'My Father Frank – Berlin 6th July 1945'
Lance & Sarah Byrne 'Transition: King’s School, Gutersloh”
Wally Lewis, Association Archivist 'Our Lives Changed for Ever' – Hong Kong 1970s
'AGM report' by Lynn Marshall, Association Secretary
'Last Word' by Mike Chislett, Association’s new Chair.
10. Spring 2022, Issue 51. Articles include:
'We Seek Them Here:..', Malcolm Brooke (Association’s Web Master)
'Closure of BFES Schools', Col RA Field-Smith MBE
'British Forces in Germany', Dr Bettina Blum – Paderborn University
'Coronation Souvenir Presented to Children of Services’ Schools Overseas in 1953', Tom Nielsen-Marsh-(All schools listed)
'the Rest as they say, is history', the late George Andrew (W. Germany 1959-1963 & 1967-1975)
'Army Schools Larnaca', David Arden
'Where did Teaching Take You?', Trish Walker (St John’s Cyprus)
'Association AGM 2022', Bill & Jan Bowen
'1987 Director’s Conference at Loccum'
'Teaching – a life after the Army?', Lance Byrne
'Your Journey to Germany – 1946', Paul Macardle
'Getting to Cologne 1954 – three BFES Experiences', Bernard Allen.
11. Association Journal Issue No 53 –Spring 23. Articles include:
Bill Johnston’s experiences in Bunde & Hildesheim Primary Schools, West Germany; interesting article on living with SOXMIS (Russian Intelligence troops);
Pupil in Singapore in the 1950s by Elizabeth Powell.
3 early experience in Germany: 1947 Arabella Kurdi, School Meals Organiser; 1946 Mimi Olga Hutton, teacher; 1946 John Trevelyan, first Director BFES.
The Berlin Wall Falls.
British Forces in Germany Project – Bettina Blum, Paderborn University
Autumn 1990, Charlottenburg First School, Berlin
Mike Bennett’s book review on Berlin
History of St Andrew’s Primary School, Hong Kong by the late David Aubin.
Malta Story by Christine Ritchie.
“Another Place Another Time” by Monika Gruber, Berlin – pupil & teacher.
The Two Berlins – a generation apart; by Tom Nielsen-Marsh.
12. Association Journal Issue 54 – Summer 2023 Articles include:
Antwerp Primary School, Belgium; Brian Burns 1972. Headteacher Michael Woods.
Singapore “Here I come!” by John Marsden, pupil of Bourne School, Singapore; 1967
“All I really wanted was to be an actor” Peter Hall
“SCS Secondary Schools in North West Europe” – Autumn 1982 – includes detailed map & photographs.
“The Year of Reorganisation – 1982” Nolan T Clamp BA – Director SCS(NWE)
“On December 31 1981 a familiar set of initials disappeared from the official vocabulary of British Forces Germany, and since then pupils, parents, teachers and the military are gradually remembering to say SCS (Service Children’s Schools) instead of BFES (British Families Education Service).”
SCEA Secondary Headteachers’ Conference 1982 – photograph and account; “Where’s our Ken?”
“On the whole I felt accepted” story of Monika Gruber on being a German living in America, from the 1950s onwards; she went to school and University in Berlin before becoming a teacher.
“A pretty Unsufferable Child” by Alec Berry; excellent personal account of a young pupil’s time living and going to a British Forces School in Lemgo, Germany 1946-47.
Mike Bennett’s book review: “Comeback: Germany 1945 – 1952” by Anthony Mann. Compliments Alec Berry’s excellent article.
“A Brief History of Secondary Education in Berlin” by Tom Nielsen-Marsh.
“Last Word” by Mike Chislett, Chair of BFES/SCEA Association; the article addresses the history of schools’ log books and their importance in tracking what was going on in our schools from 1947 onwards.
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