On Monday 11th November, we gathered at the Old Gregorian War Memorial for a solemn Service of Remembrance.
Wreaths were laid by President of St Gregory’s Society, Ken Beedle (R73) on behalf of all Old Gregorians, Mr Hobbs, Heads of School and CUO Kara. In particular we remembered the 25 Old Gregorians who lost their lives on land in 1944: Lieutenant Michael Charles Anderson, Major Arthur Leonard Bagshawe MC, Lieutenant Digby Hugh Beuttell, Lieutenant Gordon Lawrence Scott Bennett, Major Andrew Malcolm Bonham-Carter MC, Captain Darnley Peter Lamond Da Costa, Lieutenant Patrick Clements Da Costa, Captain Augustine Joseph Daly MC, Major Arthur Edward Rosario Hugh Denaro, Major Anthony Revell Eardley- Wilmot MC, Lieutenant Gerald Benson Faller, Colonel Lionel Augustine Joseph Graham, Lieutenant John Ceolfrid Griggs, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Patrick Kilkelly, Captain Eustace Gerald Lewton-Brain, Lieutenant John Kevin Maguire, Lieutenant John Gilbert Howe Moorhead, Captain George Alexander Parsons MC, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Ronald Pettit MC, Lieutenant The Hon Stephen Edward Thomas Preston, Major Felix John Stewart Symes, Major Maurice Joseph Lawson Turnball, Lieutenant Philip Anthony Wellesley-Colley, Captain Stephen Garnet Hubert Wolseley, and Lieutenant Count Wladyslaw Zamoyski.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
(from the poem For the Fallen by Lawrence Binyon)