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Since the School returned from the half-term holiday, it has been encouraging to see so many pupils and staff committed to remembering the fallen who fought for our freedom - especially the 119 Old Brutonians from the First World War, Second World War, Korean War, and War in Afghanistan.

Our thanks must be expressed to the Friends of King’s (our parent fundraising organisation) who funded the purchase of an ‘Unknown Tommy Silhouette’ statue with the School’s crest and a message of ‘In Remembrance of The 119 Fallen Brutonians’ printed on its base. This has been appropriately placed on the lawn outside the Memorial Hall. Alongside this, the poppy appeal has raised lots of money which will be collated with the Bruton Town Poppy Appeal efforts.

Sunday saw us gather for our Remembrance Sunday Service in the Memorial Hall at 9.30am. This Hall has the names of the 119 fallen Brutonians carved into the wooden panelling. Satine (an U6th Form pupil from a Forces family) read for us a reading from Isaiah where we were reminded of the dark sobering reality of war, but the good news of the hope of light (Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace). Special thanks must go to George (another U6th Form pupil from a Forces family) who laid the wreath on behalf of the School, and to Rose Vigers-Belgeonne, the Honourable Secretary to the Old Burtonian Association, who laid a wreath on behalf of them. During the Service, we pondered the words of Isaiah, and also took time to walk around the Memorial Hall taking in the names of the fallen who would have trod the same paths, played on the same pitches, and used many of the same classrooms/dorms as us.

Following the service, our Military Band and CCF helped lead the Town’s Remembrance Parade down the High Street to the War Memorial at Church Bridge. King’s pupils helped hand out Orders of Service as several hundred people went through the Remembrance liturgy together. After this, a church service for the public took place inside St Mary’s Church, with Monty and Winnie (U6th Form CCF pupils) being standard bearers on behalf of the Royal British Legion and the CCF.

On Monday 11th November, I was honoured to take a Remembrance Chapel Service Assembly at our prep school, Hazlegrove. At King’s, we marked the 106th anniversary of the Armistice with the whole school gathering in the Memorial Hall in silence. Dan and Alexina (U6th Form pupils from Forces families) read the Roll of Honour of the 119 fallen Brutonians. We said some prayers of Remembrance, and the famous words of Remembrance written by Binyon, before marking a two-minute silence. Our special gratitude must go to George (U6th Form, New House) who with great skill played The Last Post and Reveille twice yesterday (at the service and town event) and also today in the Memorial Hall.

In a world where war sadly still rages, it is so important and poignant that we take the time to remember and reflect on the sacrifice of so many in the pursuit of peace and freedom.

Rev’d George Beverly - Foundation Chaplain


Relevant news from our archives:



We remember the service and sacrifice of former King’s Bruton pupils and masters who gave their lives in the First World War.

Henry Somerset ALLAN

John Percival Curtis ASHWORTH

Arthur Alexander Russell BAILY

Hugh Glynn BAKER

Edward Bannister BARKER

Eric BARNES

Ralph George BARNES

Robert Nigel Oldfield BARTLETT

Gilbert Knowles BAZETT

Hugo Campbell BAZETT

Sydney William BELL

Arthur BIRCH

Gerald Henry Hinuber BLAKE

Denys BRINCKMAN

Edward Jerome BURDETT

Charles James BURKE

Francis Thomas BURROUGH

Norman George Manning CASE

Thomas Tanner CASTLE

Arthur Gardner CLAYTON

James Gardner CLAYTON

John Ramsay COX

Evelyn Claude CULLING

Henry Croswell DELAMAIN

Henry Waite DICKINSON

Thomas Frederick Stewart FLEMMING

Percival Vincent FRENCH

Jocelyn Alfred James GALE

John GATEHOUSE

Arthur Reginald HEARD

Stanley Benskin HENSON

Humphrey St John HEWITT

Harold Edwin HIPPISLEY

Paul Edward HOBHOUSE

John Victor JONES

John Hugh LEMON

John Francis MARTYR

Edward Philip MATTHEWS

Walter Franey MATTHEWS

Archibald Douglas McRAE

H D (Otto Henry) MEYER

Arthur Gardiner MULLER

Cecil Ivan NOKES

Frederick William NORTON

Robert Cecil RICHARDSON

William Cecil ROWELL

Somerset Arthur SHERSTON

Charles William Eastgate SMITH

Thomas Hodges STOCKWELL

Leonard Cecil Leicester SUTTON

Lancelot Guy VERNER

Oliver WAKEFIELD

Charles Ellicombe WILLIAMS

Geoffrey Mervyn Underhill WILSON

Alfred Hugh Philip WITCOMB

Percival Beckwith WACE

We remember the service and sacrifice of former King’s Bruton pupils and masters who gave their lives in the Second World War, Korean War and Afghanistan War.

From the Second World War we remember:

Roland Dean AMBROSE

Raymond Lindsay ARCHER

John Winn ATHERTON

John William Noel BALLEY

Peter Nigel Ridley BEAL

Jack Beelaerts van BLOKLAND

John Patrick BONING

John Simcoe COLE

John COLLINS

Frank Mundy COOMBS

Vernon Charles Frederick CORNISH

John Charles Bailey DAVIES

Montagu Ongley de Beauvoir DURAND

Harold Desmond FROST

Norman James GALBRAITH

Donald Nevill GALLAI-HATCHARD

Frank Roy GODFREY

Frederick Albert Courtice GYLES

Anthony Cluse Huxtable HAINES

David HARVEY-WILLIAMS

Nigel Vizard HAVELOCK-SUTTON

Seymour Lovell HEWITT

Roger Norman HILSDEN

William George HOLE

John Lionel HOLLAND

Maurice Donnithorne HOPKINSON

John Edmund Telford JENNINGS

Roderick Edward LAWDER

Peter Heatley LAYCOCK

Alec Ian LINDSAY

Andrew William MARSDEN-LEVY

John Reginald Martin SMITH

Frank William MASON

Stanley Thomas MEARES

Kenneth Allan MELROSE

Charles James Drogo MONTAGU

George Wroughton MONTAGU

Michael MULLINS

Cyril George NAPPER

John Hursant NORMAN

Alexander PETTY

Alfred Christopher PRICE

Paul Lerick RHODES

John Stuart ROBINSON

Norman SINGLETON-GATES

Blair Calvert SNELL

Cyril Neville STANSBURY

Robert Anstie Maunsell STRADLING

Wallace Douglas STRANACK

John STRICKLAND

James Murray STRICKLAND

John SUTTON, formerly WALLIS-JONES

John Patrick SYMONS

Edward Knapp TARVER

Simon Anthony Cunningham TRESTRAIL

Derek Standish Medlicott VEREKER

George Ronald VICARY

Peter Coulson WHITWELL

Robin Harry WILLIAMS

Michael WILLOWS

 

From the Korean War we remember:

Christopher Thomas Rede BUCKLEY

Henry Chapman CABRAL

From the War in Afghanistan we remember:

Benjamin ROSS


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