Second World War

My father served in the army in the second world war from 1942 to 1945 according to a Royal Artillery Regiment welfare card that I have in his name. During the later war years he served in Germany and if I remember correctly, found a photograph in a dug out on the banks of the Rhine, either torn from a magazine or still in the magazine, I can't now remember, of a school in Sidcup, Kent England Our home was in Sidcup, Kent and my brother was 11 years old in July 1944 and had won a scholarship to attend this particular school in September 1944. I still have the dog eared photograph with my father's handwriting on the margin saying 'found in dug out on banks of Rhine', no date unfortunately but if I remember rightly he sent it to my mother after he found it. The school was then called The Chislehurst & Sidcup Grammar School for Boys, I believe it is now called Kemsing High School, although not certain, and is situated on the Sevenoaks By Pass at Crittalls Corner, Sidcup, Kent. The caption under the photograph reads; 'A School of Tomorrow : in fact, of today. You can see it for yourself at Sidcup, Kent. It is the local Central School. More light, more air. more room, are its keynotes.' On the reverse of the picture is one of a classroom of boys and girls and a blackboard with the caption underneath saying, ' THE FACTS OF LIFE as they are taught in a school in London E.C.' Even more of a coincidence with regard to this story is that 3 days ago I was sorting out a box of old photographs and papers, in preparation for moving, and came across a bundle of old family photos and papers and found the photograph amongst them which I had long forgotten about, in fact didn't know I still had it, but of course it was still fresh in my mind today when I heard someone speaking on BBC2, I think it was the Steve Wright show, about coincidences. My father is no longer with us unfortunately, he died in 2001 aged 90. Margaret