Talk:John Darbourne

GT Darbourne's School Life
I was at grammar school with John Darbourne and we were close friends between 1950 and 1953. The school, which ceased to exist as a grammar school in 1977, still has very good former pupil connections. The editor of our Old Grammarian's magazine recently drew my attention to this Wikipedia entry, and I feel that it does not do justice to his earlier life and the kind of person he was. I also have two or three photos which would show him as a living person, and not just his tombstone. I have not been involved in editing Wikipedia articles before and I wonder whether starting this chat will draw some interest and support for my plan to provide information which would nearly double the length of the entry.

Colin.Groves CRGroves (talk) 12:46, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

References to the original entry
After recently adding information to this entry about John Darbourne's early school life, I found the entry was full of my editing notes as to how to incorporate my new information into the original entry. I am afraid this happened because I am new to editing Wikipedia entries and this was my first attempt.

I have now edited the entry I found today (30 September 2023), deleting all the editing notes, so that the entry now reads as a coherent whole.

Below the entry under the heading 'Sources' are my notes 25-30 (which read coherently). I am sorry to say that the notes of sources for the original entry (1-25) have not survived in their original form. I would like help to access the source notes 1-24 to the original entry, so that they can be placed before my source notes (25-30)

Colin Groves. CRGroves (talk) 18:14, 30 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @CRGroves I am glad to see that the original article with traceable references has been reproduced at the bottom of the entry.. CRGroves (talk) 21:20, 10 October 2023 (UTC)