World War I

The following was written by Jeremy Ward, (History 1974 - 1997) and looks at just some of the MGS pupils who gave their lives during World War 1, and how The Great War affected the School: THE LONG W…

The school magazine, Ulula, is an invaluable resource here in the archive. Anyone who is particularly interested in the School during the years of the Great War will be interested to know that Ulula …

Sarah Wearne, military historian and archivist at Abingdon School has collated a number of the epitaphs of Great War graves into a number of very interesting and moving books. Inspired by this, I de…

The works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are rightly celebrated, and particularly so this year as we remember the centenary of the ending of the Great War.   MGS has its own war poet, celebra…

With the centenary of the ending of the Great War approaching fast, we thought it would be interesting to collate some statistics on the involvement of MGS in the Great War. Here are some “vital stat…

This week is “Activities Week” at school, and a number of our boys are away at camp. It seemed appropriate to share a poem by Louis Golding, an ode to the camp at Grasmere which was published in Ulul…

We were kindly given this set of documents by an Old Mancunian. The documents relate to his father’s time at MGS during World War I. High Master J.L. Paton encouraged boys to to do their bit during …

In the summer of 1914, an MGS scout troop were enjoying a trek across France. They left Manchester on the 28th of July and their plans were to trek from the Normandy coast southwards to eventually re…

                                                                                                       MGS class at Long Millgate The MGS archive holds a number of schoolboy diaries that give us som…

2016 marked 100 years since the Battle of the Somme. The huge loss of life that occurred during those five months has been well documented. The school lost at least 100 Old Mancunians to the Somme in…

This article is based on a talk given at the Manchester Luncheon Club in September 2017   Wanderbirds One of the key areas of innovation that Paton spearheaded was the introduction of camps, trekkin…

This article is based on a talk given at the Manchester Luncheon Club in September 2017 J.L. Paton’s reign as High Master, lasting 21 years, changed MGS immensely and he helped to shape her into wha…