Speech Day 1959

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Richard Harris remembers the Boston Grammar School Speech Day in 1959.

[The prizes were awarded by] the head's former commanding officer from Burma. This was when I became aware that Ricketts had been a lieutenant-colonel. His old CO had remained in the army and had risen to become General Sir Francis Festing, GCB, KBE, DSO, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. I remember being disappointed to find that he was an old buffer in a sports jacket with leather patched elbows. This was far from the splendid uniform I had been expecting.

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