Obituaries
Fleet Air Arm stopped training new pilots and Tony was able to return to de Havilland to complete his course. On completion of his Production Engineering course he moved to Halifax, West Yorkshire, to join the family paper manufacturing business, where he was appointed a director after undertaking a large modernisation of the plant. The business was subsequently sold to an American company but Tony continued to work for that company as General Manager of their paper and board division for a further 10 years. He then started a farming and animal feed business from scratch. This business also prospered and he ran this company until he retired to Hayling Island in 1990. Tony married Patricia Emus in 1949 and together they had a daughter, Jane, and three sons, Roger, Oliver and Lance. Tony and Patricia celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in July 2014. Tony suffered with Parkinson’s disease for many years and died at home. He is survived by Patricia, all four children and nine grandchildren. His son, Oliver, contributed significantly to this obituary.
Charles Walter Oliver Rainer (1939-40) 03.01.1926 – 12.12.2014
Charles Rainer was born in Herne Hill to a father who was a doctor and a mother who was a nursing sister at Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. He had an idyllic childhood between the wars and started at Dulwich Prep in 1933, travelling to and
from school either by train or on the number 3 bus for a single fare of 1 penny. In 1939 he moved on to the College, where he was briefly in Marlowe. Shortly after, the whole of the College was evacuated to Tonbridge in Kent, where they shared the facilities of Tonbridge School and were billeted with local families. In the spring of 1940 the school returned to Dulwich. In the summer holiday of 1940, Charles was staying with a friend near Tonbridge when a bomb fell outside the family home in Herne Hill, so Charles remained in Kent and transferred to continue his education at Tonbridge School. At Tonbridge he was a keen rugby player and rower and was made Captain of Boats. He was also a member of the cadet corps with a passion for Morse code and other signals, and the ambition of joining the Royal Navy. After leaving school in 1943 he took the Special Entry exam and joined HMS Frobisher as a cadet. The training establishment comprised a collection of Nissen huts in the grounds of Eaton Hall in Cheshire, whither the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth had been evacuated. Within months he was on board HMS King George V, which was just coming out of refit and shortly to sail to the British Pacific Fleet in the Far East. Based in Sydney, the ship spent long periods at sea off the islands that stretch from Japan to Formosa. The Okinawa campaign was taking place at that time and the British Pacific Fleet formed an aircraft carrier task force with the US fleet. At the end of the war he returned to England for naval courses and transferred to the submarine service. After a brief stint in Barrow he was posted to the Mediterranean for three years, firstly as navigator of HMS Talent, then as first lieutenant of HMS Trump. After another submarine posting in Scotland he was selected for the Commanding Officer’s Qualifying Course. In 1955 he commanded HMS Scythian and took part in making the war film The Man Who Never Was . General service followed as First Lieutenant of HMS Modeste in the Far East, then a spell as Movements Officer in the Queen’s Harbourmaster’s Office in Portsmouth, during which time he worked for a degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of London. In 1963 he retired from the Navy and took up a teaching post at Stowe School, where he taught Mathematics and became involved with the cadets, imparting his knowledge of signals and passion for sailing. He
Dr Peter Anthony Philip Pompa (1939-46) 06.02.1928 – 28.09.2015
Peter Pompa was the son of a wallpaper designer from Camberwell. He came to Dulwich from Cowley School in Brixton at the start of the Second World War. While at the College he was in Spenser, a school prefect, played 2nd XV
rugby and was in the JTC. He also spent a lot of time cycling to and from school while dodging bombs, and in air raid shelters. After leaving Dulwich, Peter went back to Camberwell to study medicine at King’s College Hospital, where he graduated in 1954. Early in his career he took a position as a ship’s doctor and travelled extensively around the world. Returning to the UK, he relocated to Hampshire and worked in Portsmouth Hospital. His last job was as a school doctor. From his time as a ship’s doctor, a voyage to the Far East provided him with much material to indulge his passion of photography. Many of the pictures he took at this time he then entered in Camera Club exhibitions in the late 1950s. Later he took up painting with the same passion. When he moved to Hampshire he lived in Waterlooville for many years. After retiring he was able to spend more time on gardening, painting and travelling. His interest in the arts saw him take up dancing with a senior dance group in Portsmouth, who sometimes performed in public. He moved to Southampton five years ago. He is survived by his cousin, Olive, who contributed significantly to this obituary.
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