Rembrance Day 2023

On Friday 10th November 2023, Year 13 students, Hannah Mulvihill (Head Student), Frankie Rowson and Year 12 students Kiera Laming and Theo Li, were accompanied by Mr Moaby and Mr Ward to the Denton Remembrance Day Service. This annual service is to honour the soldiers from the local Parish who lost their lives in the First World War. Thirteen names are on the Denton memorial each signifying an individual’s sacrifice in war. It is often forgotten in the larger scale memorial services that each individual who was killed or wounded had their own reasons for joining up and fighting for the British Army, from all corners of the world. With the service at Denton being for fewer men, the emotion of the day was perhaps more keenly felt by those in attendance, not only because of the proximity to our school but also because of the stories of the men that were provided to us.

The students were asked to lay a rose at the memorial in memory of an individual. Hannah laid a poppy wreath on behalf of the School. The service included a two-minute silence, the National Anthem and the Last Post. One of the men on the memorial was of particular significance to this School. Leslie Lund, a pupil of Gravesend Grammar School, then known as the Gravesend Municipal Day School, was killed in action in France on 25th September 1915, aged 24, less than a month after enlisting as a Corporal in the Royal Engineers, 188th Field Company (Special Brigade). 

MJW