Roger Burton (1933-2018) French and Spanish master 1960-64

Garry Hu,mphreys found a note on his death in 2018. Other information on his life was then found. His entry on the STAFF page now reads:

BURTON, Roger. B.A. (Nottingham). 1960-1964. French and Spanish. CCF Lt (Royal Signals). To Kirkby-in-Ashfield Comprehensive School. Educated Alleyne’s Grammar School, Uttoxeter. b 28 January 1933, Staffordshire; d 30 July 2018, Devon. Amateur singer. “Budgie” from the blue jacket, Nottingham B.A. gown and head on one side.

A mention in a book on National Service

I have added this note to the Miscellanea Page

Graham Arthur Mottershaw [1942-1950] is quoted in book on National Service

Graham Mottershaw wrote from his R.A.F. training unit: ‘the talk consists of filth and blasphemy which surprises even a vulgar person like me; more sensitive and sheltered natures must suffer hell’.

From Richard Vinen’s National Service. Conscription in Britain 1945-1963, 2014, London: Allen Lane, p 152. Mottershead (b 26 May 1932; d 26 February 1996, Shropshire) was living in Arnold at the time of the emergency census in 1939. A first XI cricketer, he was writing to his friend, John Michael Lee (see Obits page). The letter is in Lee’s papers kept in the Nottinghamshire Archive.