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My name is Bob Owen.I entered the Denbigh Grammar School at the beginning of the war and left in 1946.The events associated directly with the war are best classified as follows-:
(a)Issuing of gas masks and the hilarity and leg pulling involved.

(b)Bomb Drill where all pupils had, on hearing the Air Raid Warning,to evacuate the school premises and take shelter in the cellar of an allocated house nearby.

(c)At morning assembly prayers and hymns appropriate prayers and hymns were used and as the war progressed the headmaster Mr W.A.Evanshad the sad task of announcing the names of the ex pupils who had lost their lives. He himself had been awarded the Military Cross for Gallantry during World War One.

(d)During the early years children were evacuated to the town.Junior pupils came from St. John's School and St.Francis Xavier's School in Liverpool.These were Catholic Schools and the children were segregated for Religious Instruction. Secondary school children came to us from Liverpool Holly Lodge Girls' School. Other girls from Guernsey went to Denbigh Howells School.
A squadron of The Air Training Corps was established at the school and boys from the Central chool were allowed to join.Classes were held in navigation and aircraft recognition and groups were taken to R.A.F. Valley and other stations for flight experience.

Some pupils elected to join The Army Cadet Corps which met at the local Drill Hall.

Others became members of the St.John's Ambulance Brigade or were appointed messengers for the Civil Defence.

The school became a depot for the collection of

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