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OM Internationals 2007-08 Season

During the season, five current pupils represented their countries (four for England) at Under 16 and Under 18 level, while four OMs all represented various England teams:
 
                              
           Anthony Allen (2003-05; Kingweston)   England A                                                          
 
          John Brake (2001-06; St Anne’s)             England Under 20, England 7s
 
                                                                                      
        Mark Odejobi (2004-06; Kingweston)     England Under 20                                                        
                                                                                                                       
          Tom Hockedy (2001-06; Skinner)             England Students

 

“Forest Legend” Bev Dovey     

 
“The Forester” newspaper did an article on former Lydney and England rugby player and former Millfield tutor, Bev Dovey, who has retired in sunny Somerset and, with his wife Joan, is an enthusiastic golfer. Bev played county rugby for Gloucestershire (as Captain), Somerset, Yorkshire and Herefordshire and also turned out for English Universities, the Barbarians, Western Counties, South of England and, finally, the full England team, winning his first England cap at Cardiff Arms Park against the Welsh. He then appeared against the Irish at Lansdowne Road. 
 
Playing for Bristol RFC, Bev made 184 appearances for them, from 1965-1970, joining Millfield’s Biology Department in Autumn 1968 and (apart from a short spell as the Headmaster of a comprehensive school in Gloucestershire) teaching at Millfield until his retirement in 1997.