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LOCAL CHOIR NEWS
OBITUARIES

Music at St Peter’s Church, Dorchester offer two musical events during May. We

present the first in our summer series of coffee concerts on Sunday 15 May at
Reginald John Trafford Snook 11.45am. Join us for coffee and a short recital of songs performed by Amy Bolster,
our alto choral scholar this year.
Reg was born in Bere Regis on 2nd May 1934 the third child of Cyril and Hilda
and youngest Brother to Stan and Eric and they lived at the Family home 90 Amy has just been awarded a choral scholarship at Selwyn College, Cambridge
West Street here in Bere Regis where she will read music from September. Her programme includes music by J.S.
Bach, Pergolesi, Purcell and Gershwin.
He attended school in the village until he was 15 having occasional days at
Bovington on day release - Mr Drew was the sports master and also the On Saturday 28 May at 4.30pm, we offer our monthly cathedral-style choral
geography teacher and when teaching about countries around the world evensong for Ascensiontide. The music includes Durufle: Ubi caritas, Stanford:
he would end the lesson by saying moving closer to home we need to discuss Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C, Reading: Preces & Responses, Finzi: God is
the football team for the next match if you were one of two chosen to clean gone up.
and prepare the ball you would definitely be playing in the next game
All are very welcome to these events. You can keep up to date with Music at St
One day Reg and his friend stood on the cross watching the convoy of Peter’s by following us on Facebook: Facebook,com/musicatstpetersdorch or
American soldiers driving through the village on route to France in Twitter: @musicatstpeter If you would like any further information do email us at
preparation for D-Day one of the soldiers got out of his truck and handed musicatstpeters@mail.com
them a puppy and asked them to look after it as they didn’t want to take it to
France sadly the dog died later of distemper
in 1949 they played in the by cup a prestigious tournament for Purbeck
schools and they got to the final at Langton and the school team and
supporters went on Charlie Brown's bus - Reg scored the opening goal and
Langton equalized before half time, late in the second Half Reg hit a shot
from outside the box and the Goalkeeper just got a hand on it to save and
his best mate Clifford Barnes smashed the rebound into the net to win the
cup for Bere and they brought the cup home and paraded it around the
village on the bus.

Reg and Clifford would still joke 70 years on; including at the salt and pepper
club the last time they met there how far out Clifford scored from - all of 18
inches he said
When he left school, he worked for Bedford and Jesty until he was called up
for national service in 1952 serving in the Royal
Army Service Corp which included a tour to Egypt

He returned to Bere Regis in 1954 and continued
to work for Bedford and Jesty at the watercress
beds and continued to play football for the village
team also later for Wareham Rangers and he also
represented Dorset and was very proud of his
Dorset County Cap, which is now framed and
displayed in Paul’s mancave in Fareham, where
he saw it take pride of place.

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