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399 Dr George Morton REYNOLDS (1925-2020) (Inducted 22.6.1964; left during 1973/74.) Medical
Service. Medical Officer of Health for Dudley, and also Principal School
Medical Officer and Chief Welfare Officer, from 1961 to 1979, based in
Ednam Road, Dudley. He was born and married in Haverfordwest,
Pembrokeshire and returned to Wales on leaving Dudley in October 1979
to become Area Medical Officer for Dyfed Area Health Authority. His home
was in Carmarthen until about 2013 when he and his wife moved to live
with their daughter near Glastonbury, Somerset. Morton qualified as a
doctor from the University of Wales in 1948, then did his National Service
in the Royal Army Medical Corps, reaching the rank of Captain (he remained
in the Reserve of Officers from 1955.) He practised in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire until 1955 then
moved to Gorleston/Great Yarmouth as a public health officer for about 3 years and the same
at Norwich before coming to Dudley.

400 Austen Edward RUMNEY (1930-2008) (Inducted 30.11.1964; Club
President 1976-77) left in 1989 on moving his business to Bromsgrove.)
Ophthalmic optician. Owner of a practice and shop in upper High Street,
Dudley. He was also the proprietor of a photocopying and printing bureau
- Ikon Print - next door. (‘Ikon Print’ was a deliberate play on the Black
Country dialect for ‘I can print’!) The optician’s business in Dudley was
started by his father from 1930 or earlier and continued by Austen after
his father’s death in 1964. His brother Peter (club member #396) was in
a related business as a manufacturing optician. Austen was skilled at
wood turning and carving; in his 30s and 40s he was a keen member of Dudley & District Car
Club and competed in numerous rallies; and he was a well-known freemason and for many years
a director and secretary of The Dudley Masonic Hall. His home was at View Drive, Oakham.

401 Richard (‘Dick’) William WRIGHT (1912-1970) (Inducted 30.11.1964; died during summer 1970
whilst still a member.) Education - Primary Schools. Headmaster of Kate's Hill Junior School,
Dudley. He taught in the Brighton area for about 30 years from his 20s until coming to Dudley.
His home was Elizabeth Grove, Oakham.

402 John (‘Jack’) Martin WALL (1915-1984) (Inducted 4.1.1965; died 22.1.1984 whilst still a
member.) Groceries - Distribution. Assistant Managing Director from
1963 of the Dudley-based wholesale grocers and provisions merchants
Goodwin Foster Brown Ltd of Hall Street, which had branches around the
country. In about 1969 this became King Goodwin and in 1978
Meadowmarkets Limited, ‘retail discount stores’. A native of Wigan he
started in the wholesale grocery business as a young man in Clitheroe as
a cashier and assistant buyer. He joined Goodwin Foster in 1947 as
manager of its Gloucester depot then took over the Coventry depot in
1950. He came to Dudley in 1960 as purchasing director and joined the
Board. In 1963 he set up the company’s packaging operation - Dudley Food Packers - and in
1974 was appointed that company’s production director. He retired in about 1980. Jack was
extraordinarily cheerful despite having severe problems with his eyesight.

403 Walter (‘Wal’) George HAMMOND (1917-1980) (Inducted 8.3.1965; left September 1966 on
changing business.) Printing - Commercial. He was with Poultney Phoenix Press Ltd of BrickkiIn
Street, Hart's Hill, Brierley Hill, perhaps as a Manager rather than a Director. He lived in the
Birmingham area all his life. He started work as a printer’s compositor but a few years later,
shortly after the start of the Second World War, he joined the RAF. In June 1944, as Flight
Sergeant Hammond, he and his Lancaster crew were shot down near Paris. He escaped by