Remembrance Service held at SCD

Students, staff, governors and Old Danes gathered at the school this morning to pay their respects at the school’s Remembrance Service. Led by Mr Butler, the Upper School address was entitled Memorials and Stories. Moving stories of Old Danes who lost their lives in the Second World War were recounted, including that of the school’s German master, Geoffrey Norman Arnold. He found himself a participant in a war against a people with whom he shared a deep affinity and was eventually killed in action, leaving a mother who had lost her husband in the First World War and her only son in the Second. The audience listened to a beautiful arrangement of Dylan’s ‘To make you feel my love’ sung by the gospel choir before the last post was played by Conor Smyth-Chakraborty. Prayers were led by Rev David Hall from Christ Church, Chorleywood.

After leaving the Barbirolli Hall, wreaths were laid at the school’s memorial by the Head Boy and Girl, before guests and staff enjoyed some time together, reminiscing and looking at the displays of archive documents from both wars in the Learning Resources Centre.