Mr Drumm with Professor Russell Stone, enjoying refreshments after the Anzac Service Assembly.
Albertian and serviceman Professor Russell Stone joined us again as a special guest as MAGS remembered its fallen Albertians today at the Anzac Service Assembly in the F.W. Gamble Hall.
Professor Stone, aged 103, served in the Air Force and Army during World War II, and he joined other guests who were escorted by piper Andrew Wilkie into the hall, already filled with the Year 9 audience.
Our Centennial Choir performed Sons of Gallipoli before Year 13 History students Minna Bostwick and Deputy Head Prefect Johnny Gilmore spoke about our fallen Albertians and the importance of remembrance – not only of the wars but the people involved in them, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice for future generations.
As at every ANZAC Service, the names of fallen Albertians were read aloud, the Ode of Remembrance was read, and a laying of wreaths was performed at our cenotaph during the Last Post and Reveille, played by Music teacher Mr Melhuish, as the NZ flag was lowered and raised both inside the hall and at the cenotaph, where the names of the fallen Albertians are inscribed in stone.
