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Nov 12, 2013 News
Students and teachers filled the auditorium of Queen’s College yesterday to commemorate the annual Remembrance Day observance with a wreath-laying ceremony and service.
As the school’s tradition would have it, two of the youngest students, accompanied by the Head Prefect and the Deputy were chosen to hang the wreaths on the walls where the names of fallen soldiers were.
Principal Jackie Benn urged those in attendance to always remember the soldiers who died in the two World Wars.
“At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month
in the year 1918 all fighting ceased between the Allies and the Germans because an armistice or truce had been signed. Fighting was over,” the Principal said.
She added that during the First World War much of the combating took place in a part of Europe called Flanders.
“Many of the men were killed there and thousands more were handicapped for life. It was to help these disabled servicemen that Earl Haig fought in the war,” Benn said.
The Principal added that Haig recollected that the fields of Flanders had been covered in a mass of beautiful red poppies, which grew wild.
“So when the war was over he suggested that some of the men who had been crippled on the battlefield should make artificial poppies to sell each November,” the Principal said.
Benn said that all proceeds during the poppy sale would be donated to “those who are disabled”.
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