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David Sturzaker (90-95), known as David Smith at the College, starred in ITV’s two-part wartime drama, Murder on the Home Front , which was broadcast in May. In 2013, he also appeared on television playing the character of Bernardo Baroncelli in Da Vinci’s Demons . Graham Swift (60-66) saw his short story, I Live Alone , long-listed for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2013. The story focuses on a solicitor who, having received the news that he has a terminal illness, reflects upon his life and resolves to carry on as normal, while examining the meaning and potential hope that living alone brings. Douglas Tang (09-11), Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, played the organ for the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols which was broadcast on BBC Radio Four and BBC Two on Christmas Eve.
‘I carried on but after a while I came to a standstill and my memory is hazy. All I know is that the entire team were incredible. Not just in this contact but throughout the tour and this award is very much for all of them. They were a constant inspiration to me. As was Corporal Shaw. He did so much throughout the tour and his bravery and technical skill were admired by everyone’, said Captain Scarlett of the engagement. Realising that a further attempt to extract the casualties via the pedestrian gate was impossible, Lt Scarlett ordered a vehicle to ram one of the blocked gates, before collapsing from pain and blood loss. The rest of the team were, however, able to overcome the attacker and extract the remaining casualties. Captain Scarlett’s citation states: ‘Scarlett, a relatively junior Lieutenant, was faced with a horrific situation. In response, he displayed the very highest standards of leadership, courage and selfless commitment. In effect, he put the lives of his soldiers before his own and in doing so he took the deliberate decision to attack an ambush. Furthermore, even lying seriously injured he continued to direct the counter-attack, displaying supreme gallantry and leadership.’ John Scholar (89-98) has been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford. After reading English at Magdalen, he completed an MSc in Economics at LSE and worked for three years at HM Treasury. He then returned to academia, completing an MA in English at Birkbeck College, London, before returning to Oxford. His interests are in modernist poetry and the modernist novel, as well as literary theory and critical commentary. He is working to complete a DPhil, focusing on the novel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Matt Sellwood (91-00) was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 2013 and will begin his pupillage at Devereux Chambers in 2014. A keen debater during his time at the College, he was a member of the team that won the 2013 Commonwealth Moot, held in South Africa in April. Alex Singleton (93-98), a former Daily Telegraph journalist, has written The PR Masterclass: How to Develop a Public Relations Strategy that Works! (Wiley). Writer and architectural historian Professor Gavin Stamp (59-67) published Anti-Ugly: Excursions in English Architecture and Design (Aurum Press) in the autumn of 2013, which draws together a selection of his regular columns for the architecture and fine art magazine, Apollo . In May, David Stephenson (60-63) published Rugby Stories ... and other misadventures (CreateSpace), an autobiography recounting his early days in Australia, his time as a pupil at Dulwich College and his participation in the first international rugby test for the United States, against Australia. Captain John Scarlett MC (second from right)
Douglas Tang, Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge
In April 2014, Wing Commander Keith Taylor (79-86) will be promoted to the rank of Group Captain and posted to the Falkland Islands to take up the position of Chief of Staff British Forces South Atlantic Islands. Wing Commander Taylor has previously served as Officer Commanding 617 Squadron (The Dambusters), leading the squadron on two operational tours in Afghanistan during his time in command. He was subsequently posted to the Ministry of Defence in October 2012, where he worked in Air Capability. Kenneth Taylor (76-83) was appointed Headteacher of St Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh, in April 2013. The five-part supernatural drama, Lightfields , broadcast on ITV in February and March 2013, was written by Simon Tyrrell (73-79), whose previous credits include the television dramas The Bill, Peak Practice and Survivors . Group Captain E E Vielle OBE RAF (Rtd) (26-31) published his memoirs, Almost a Boffin (Dolman Scott), at the age of 100. He joined the RAF in 1932 and retired from the service 25 years later. During his career, he worked with some of the country’s leading scientists
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