Malvernites After Malvern
Sonya Munro has been compiling material on what has happened to many Malvern graduates. We are interested in hearing from you if you would like to share any information with us. We will post your stories here with your permission. Please email us at archives@malverncollegiate.com.
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MRBS President visits Malvern men’s graves in Germany
Vandra Masemann and her husband Volker were travelling in Germany this past January and made a detour to visit the Becklingen War Cemetery, where two Malvernites are buried.
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Malvern Collegiate’s Red and Black Society repairing books honouring students who fought in the Second World War
Beach Mirror By Joanna Lavoie Malvern Collegiate, an 111-year-old high school in the Upper Beach, is doing its part to honour those from the school who served in the Second World War, which Canada officially entered 75 years ago on Sept. 10, 1939, declaring war on Germany.
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Malvern grad killed in 1943 air raid among those honored by new memorial
Back in May of this year, a new memorial to the men and women killed in an air raid on May 23, 1943, in Bournemouth, England was unveiled. MCI grad Sgt. Ross Clifton Woods was among them. He was a personnel clerk at the RCAF reception centre where Canadian airmen stayed before being sent on their way to training units and then operational squadrons.
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Malvern history celebrated as reunion nears
From Beach Metro News – By David Fuller • April 4, 2013 History has found one of the men of Malvern Collegiate again, just a couple months before the school celebrates its 110th anniversary. His name was Sgt. Morris Murray and he was killed on June 6, 1944, which is why his story was last told by this writer when a Malvern Grade 10 class travelled to Normandy, France in March 2009. The students were there to visit his gravesite in Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery along with those of two other Malvern men killed in later battles.
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Beach men who flew with Bomber Command are finally recognized
For the majority of the men from Malvern Collegiate Institute who fought in the Second World War, there was one big disappointment in the years after it ended. While many of their comrades in the other services were being honored on the anniversaries of the war, those who flew in bombers were conspicuously left out of the commemorations.
