Thu December 11, 2025
This page links you to new entries as they are added.
9th December 2025
New locations beginning to be added to reflect the list 'discovered' in first issue of BFES Gazette, 1947.
10th November 2025
The search function has been expanded to cover all keywords within the website (not just the official school name).
Searching for "Soltau" will now locate "Jerboa".
19th October 2025
A 2025 view of JHQ as it is now - if you lived there, you might enjoy looking at this YouTube video - there are more available if you search YouTube!
12th October 2025
Past Events - Cultural Tour of Berlin (29th Sept - 3rd Oct) has taken place and photographs of some of the places visited are available to view.
25th September 2025
Past Events - AGM and Lunch at Petwood Hotel, Woodhall Spa. Some photographs to view and a short report.
16th July 2025
Courtesy of Sara Howarth we have an excellent set of images showing the school in Munsterlager. It is quite rare to have images of the school buildings so this is a 'rare treat' for the website!!
21st June 2025
Courtesy of their Facebook page we have several images of RAF Gatow First School.
18th June 2025
Photographs of Defence Academy of UK visit on 16th May 2025.
7th June 2025
Courtesy of Brian Strand we have information about a previously unknown school in Hamburg which was open from 1947 to 1954.
The other website locations in the Hamburg area have all been described as 'Kindergartens for the under 7s'.
2nd June 2025
Harrowing images of Slim School, Bergen have been added. The former school's building in Bergen-Hohne burned down at the end of May 2025.
10th April 2025
Courtesy of the Hastenbeck School Facebook Group we have a selection of images showing the school.
9th April 2025
Courtesy of Mike Ahern, we now know the location of Jever Primary School.
19th February 2025
An interesting conundrum.
A photograph has been identifed as two different schools..........RAF Eastleigh and Erskine (both locations in Nairobi).
We had no knowledge of Erskine and wonder if these actually were two different schools.
17th February 2025
The area of Gillman Barracks, Singapore accommodated both Alexandra Infant & Junior Schools are well as Secondary school facilities.
15th February 2025
Additional pictures of Bourne Secondary School in Singapore have been added.
29th January 2025
Images of Pasir Panang School and Wessex School from the 1950/60s have been added.
28th January 2025
Timothy Cohen recently visited Bishopspark School in Paderborn......now with video surveillance!
27th January 2025
Pictures of West Coast Primary School and Selarang School in Singapore have been added.
25th January 2025
Several pictures of the new St John's School in Singapore have been added.
24th January 2025
The histories of Weser, Hameln and Hastenbeck have been explained thanks to John & Janet Allison.
23rd January 2025
Extended Tourex appreciation of David Greenwood.
20th January 2025
Amazing images of Nee Soon and Tanglin School have been added.
17th January 2025
Re-ordered 'Latest News' to place newer items as first-seen.
7th January 2025
Just when you start to doubt the existence of a school, a little piece of evidence comes to light......Lancaster School, Osnabrück.
4th January 2025
A staff photograph of the little known St Peter's Infant School in Limassol, Cyprus has been added, courtesy of Ben Green.
1st July 2024
A total of 309 schools have been identified. Those with no known location are being investigated. It is amazing how quickly memories fade and we are working hard to ensure as little as possible is lost.
1st June 2024
Association bulletins are described and are downloadable for earlier months and years.
31st October 2023
An eBook written by Steve Green has been added to the Archives (Documents/eBook).
9th June 2023
JHQ schools clarified with the addition of St David's, JHQ
January 20th 2023
Details of a number of schools have been added.....too many to mention individually except for Mülheim.
A chance comment in a Facebook group led to its "discovery".
Is your school listed and do you have any items you could add?
December 5th 2022
All the schools in the "Coronation List" have now been added........the school total is now over 300.
After a visit to Malta, the site of Tigne School has been located.
Using 'information received' a school has been identified in Bermuda.
September 5th 2022
Gallery of images from approx 2005 added to Scott from the time that the whole building was a 'Foundation Stage 1' setting.
September 1st 2022
A gallery of images added, courtesy of Mike Bennett, of his return to Shackleton School.
July 20th 2022
A start has been made in adding the Coronation List of schools......but still a lot to add!
April 26th 2022
Many new contributions have been received. The Association is very grateful to all the contributors.
There are too many to mention individually but please browse the schools you know or are interested in.
4th January 2022
A "new" primary school in Germany has been identified.......Hubbelrath.
3rd January 2022
Courtesy of Steve Green, a lot of information about Hamm schools has been recorded.
1st January 2022
A lot of schools located from the days in Malaysia.
23rd December 2022
Alexandra Primary School in Dortmund has been added to the list.
18th December 2021:
A big update on Singapore schools thanks to information from Tom O'Brien.
20th October 2021:
A new world map view of schools has been added. Only schools whose locations have been confirmed are displayed.
12th October 2021:
Following an appeal via Facebook we have updated the locations of a number of schools and were sent one school that was missing (Sümmern Primary).
22nd August 2021:
Tigne School updated, thanks to Trevor Moorcroft for photographs.
7th August 2021:
A lengthy response from John Lord has added a significant amount of new information and corrected a number of errors.
25th July 2021:
The new BFES-SCE website is launched.
Members are encouraged to explore the site, especially the Locations.
We have entered the basic details of almost 200 locations throughout the world.
Some are possibly duplicates as they were known by name or location.
All additions and corrections are welcomed...........contact the Webmaster.