WE WILL REMEMBER THEM A TALE OF TWO COMRADES IN ARMS
If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
16
W
ith the rededication of the iconic School Organ at a special service on Sunday 11 November 2018, it is of immense relevance to relate the poignant story of two ONs, one who fell at the Somme in March 1918, aged 21, buried in Pozieres Cemetery, near the battlefield in France, his name commemorated on the Organ with 277 others, who fell in both World Wars. His fellow ON who survived the slaughter of Passchendaele in rural Belgium and returned to lead a most fulfilling life in northern England until his death in 1972. A poignant display was set up by Sarah Huck, Library Assistant, with the support of Genny Silvanus, Archivist, and Jane Richardson, Librarian in the School Library.
