The caps, the honour rolls, the magazines, the stories and the events of the Brisbane Grammar School Old Boys' Association are drawn from the School's own records, and it's been curated, transcribed and made searchable by the OBA.
Adam Franklin '97PresidentOn behalf of the OBA, I'm delighted you're here. It covers 128 years of the OBA's history and it's yours to immerse yourself in.
Please search your name or year above and see what you find. Take a trip down memory lane.
If you hold something we're missing, a story, a record, an old photo, send it to oba@brisbanegrammar.com and tell us where it came from. We'll run it past the School Historian to verify it and update their records, and then we aim to publish it.
This website holds the OBA's official history and the Old Boys Facebook group is the real-time conversation.
Cap 8 of the 1st XI, 19 Tests for the Wallabies, and the only man ever to replace Don Bradman in a Test side. From the 1917 team plate to the record books.
Read the story →1st XV rugby, 1st XI cricket, 1st XI football and 1st V basketball, by number.
Dux of the School, unbroken from 1869.
Every Old Boy elected since Arthur Stanley Roe in 1904.
The Old Boys who represented their country, and seven medals.
Every BGS premiership, by year and by sport.
The full roll of presidents, and the office bearers year by year.
The Editorial and the OBA pages, year by year, 1898 to 2024.
The School's publication, and the Old Boys' pages of each edition.
The OBA's own quarterly, 1995 and 1996.
The School Archives' fact sheets on the Gun, the Golden Book, the War Memorial Library and more.
The feats and characters of 128 years, told with the original images.
How the Association began, and what it has done since.
What is coming up, what we ran, and the photographs.
A surname, a first name or a year, across every roll and page.
Brisbane Grammar School Old Boys' Association · Old Boys History. Part of the OBA Knowledge Project.
Draft site for committee review. Spot an error or hold a missing piece? Tell the OBA