Telephone: Colchester 2251.
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HEAD-QUARTERS,
4th DIVISION,
COLCHESTER.
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Director of Education,
County Offices,
Chelmsford.
Dear Sir,
5th August, 1936.
In accordance with a suggestion made by Mr. H.J. Cape, Headmaster, Colchester Royal Grammar School, I am writing to you with regard to my son, John Charles Close.
My son was successful in passing his entrance examination to the above School on 16th September, 1936. He has also been found fit at his medical examination on 28th July, 1936.
My profession is that of a soldier (Clerk) in the Royal Army Service Corps and I have recently been warned that I shall be required to proceed with my family to Hong Kong for a 3 years' tour of duty, on or about the 10th September, 1936. I am unable, for financial reasons, to board my son at the School during the period of my absence abroad, and as Mr. Cape informs me that it would be a grave pity if the boy were to lose his chance because he shows really quite good promise, I am writing to ask if you possibly could arrange for his scholarship to be transferred to a secondary school at Hong Kong.
I have been given to understand that such transfers have successfully been carried out from secondary schools in this County to secondary schools in India but not to such schools in China. If the question of a transfer to s secondary school in China has not previously arisen I should be extremely grateful if you would kindly do something for my boy in this respect.
I have ascertained that there is a school at Hong Kong which is run by the Government on secondary school lines and that it is manned by English Masters. This school is the British Central School, Hong Kong. Admission to the School is by fee and by Scholarship Examination; two examinations are held each year.
I fully realise that it might be possible for my son to sit for another examination when he gets to Hong Kong but in view of the fact that he will be eleven years old on 23rd August, there is a doubt as to whether this would be permissible. Also, I am in doubt as to whether a scholarship obtained at Hong Kong would be accepted for his admission to a secondary school in this Country on his return home.
If, however, you could possibly arrange for his scholarship to be transferred to Hong Kong there should be no difficulty in the above respect.