Framlinghamian 2023 - Flipbook - Page 321
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BENJAMIN BARRINGER (G56–61) passed
carrying out various duties for Ellerman
away in May 2023, in Spain, aged 77.
and Bucknall Steamship. He then served
six months as midshipman R.N.R in Malta
GUY BROOK-SMITH passed away,
in the Fleet Auxiliary and deputising as
suddenly, on 28 June 2023, at home in
Sub-Lieutenant. In 1949, in London, he
Louis Trichardt, Limpopo, South Africa.
applied for, and was accepted for a post
He was with his two daughters, Fiona and
as a trooper (Mounted Policeman) with
Joanne, and his daughter-in-law.
the British South African Police and was
We are grateful to Joanne for information
sent to Salisbury, Rhodesia, as it then was.
provided for this obituary.
Here he was trained and was stationed at
various district stations to carry out normal
police work. He left the police force in
1956 but remained a police reservist from
1956 to 1980, when he left the country.
After he left the force, he worked in the
agriculture industry selling Agri equipment
until 1980 when he emigrated to Canada
with his family. Arriving in Toronto,
Canada, he worked as a technical
consultant for just under a year, before
昀椀nding another job on Vancouver Island,
BC, Canada and moving the family
across Canada, to where we lived on
Vancouver Island in Nanaimo, Errington
and Parksville.
Due to tough economic conditions they
decided to emigrate back to South Africa
Joanne writes:
in 1982 and in Johannesburg he was
Dad (b.29.7.1929) was very proud to
retained as a 昀椀nancial advisor for SA
have been a scholar at Framlingham
Perm Bank, where he had an outstanding
College from 1941 to 1944. He was the
service record with his clients. He retired
only child out of eight to be able to
in 1990 and did a Realty Estate course
attend such a wonderful school. He left
and some other private work from home
to attend the Mercantile Marine Service
before they moved to their home in
Association School ship “Conway” from
Hoekwil, Wilderness, Western Cape, 15km
1944 to 1946, following in the footsteps of
from George, where they spent many
his father, Louis, and then brothers, John
happy years in retirement. Margaret,
and Francis. Then from 1946-1949 he was
his wife, was diagnosed in 2009 with
at sea, working as a midshipman, and
Parkinson’s disease and the eldest son
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