Today the College gathered beside the Magee Memorial Lawn to mark the laying of our Field of Remembrance. Mr Olsen gave an insight into the Field before the flag was lowered and thirty senior students read each of the names acknowledged on the thirty crosses in the Field. The people named on the crosses in our Field came from our region but also include Sergeant David Gallaher, captain of the All Blacks, Staff Nurse Lorna Rattray, and Private Basil Mercer who was just 17 when he was killed. Following a minutes silence Head Boy Brady Kingan read The Ode, after which the flag was once again raised, accompanied by College piper Natalie Preston. The Field will remain on the Magee Memorial Lawn for the next fortnight.
They shall not grow 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.
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