Caerleon Infants 1958(ish)

This photo made the long journey to Australia and then on to New Zealand in 1960 when Leslie and Gladys Batt emigrated with their boys John and Julian. It returned to Caerleon at the speed of light via email!

Julian, who is second from the left in the back row, sent us the picture. Can YOU help by putting names to some of the faces? Julian was born in 1952, so his ex-classmates will now be 52 or 53.

See also a photos of Caerleon Infants on the school field taken the previous year:
Photo 1 & Photo 2

Email: Caerleon Net

Email: Julian

Dorian Turner (formerly Penn) has contacted us saying that he can identify the following pupils with 98% certainty:

Back Row L-R
Frank Snook, Julian Batt, Simon Fry, Joan Edwards, Wendy Nash, Robert Snook

Middle Row L-R
Kenneth Lentle, Paul Llewellyn, Kevin Murray, Paul Dowden, Timothy Nash, Peter Turner, Phillip Dowden, Glyn Macey, Goeffrey Eddolls, Paul Townsend

Front Row L-R
?, Geraldean Penn, ?, ?, Betty Dominie, Eileen Barker, Gillian Baulch, ?, ?.

We have been sent these names by another visitor to Caerleon Net:

Back Row L-R
Frank Snook, Julian Batt, Simon Fry, Joan Williams, Wendy Nash, Robert Snook

Middle Row L-R
Kenneth Lentle, Paul Llewellyn, Kevin Murray, Paul Dowden, Neil Barker, Peter Turner, Phillip Dowden, Glyn Macey, Goeffrey Eddolls, Paul Townsend

Front Row L-R
Christopher ?, Margaret Ronertson, Susan Crossman, Gillian Raikes, Jean Waggett, Gillian Baulch, Brenda Harvey and Gillian Williams

Can anyone help with positive identifications of any of those pictured?

Dorian added:

It’s interesting to note that the children featured in this photograph and also the other two 1957 feature groups of children from different aged classes I can only presume that the photographer was allowed to muddle the different groups up as the different classes lined up for the shots. (I imagine being a school photographer in those days was a thankless and unrewarding occupation and he/she just got it over with asap.)

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