Remembrance Service - ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½

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In memory of those who gave their lives in war and conflict, the school gathered in the Chapel for a Service of Remembrance. Alumni were welcomed back, for the hundredth anniversary, to pay tribute to students and masters of ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½ who lost their lives at war . Ìý

The service focused on the 193 pupils and masters of ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½ College who sacrificed their lives in the service of their country. During the Prep School service, 193 poppies were laid on the altar, representing each member of the ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½ community killed at war, and in the Senior School, their names were read out before the school fell silent at 11am. A poignant moment in both services was the sound of the Last Post, this year played by Sophie S (Year 8) and Matthew G (LVI).Ìý

Following the Remembrance Service, alumni and guests made their way to the Cricket Pavilion for the presentation of a plaque to commemorate the centenary of the dedication of the pavilion as a memorial to the alumni who gave their lives during the Great War (1914-1918).Ìý

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The scheme for a war memorial is taking shape. The thing to avoid is vagueness. It is not a memorial of strangers, whom we honour for their greatness of soul alone; it is an attempt to keep green the memory of those whose hands we have clasped, of those who have shared with us in many a frolic, many a game, of those whose absence we shall feel for many a year to come. Headmaster Reverend Coombes wrote in February 1917