Remembrance Sunday this year was largely spent by mrs maytrees and myself at Beaumont. Mass was celebrated in the old school chapel for the first time since the School closed in 1967. This was probably because the weather was wet and cold.
Father Michael Holman SJ was the celebrant with the chapel full of old boys, their wives and a number of children and grand children.
After mass, wreathes were laid at the war memorial and a minutes silence observed, despite the chilly, wet weather.
We all then enjoyed lunch in the old lower line refectory. Father Michael reminded me that he had been chaplain of HCPT Group 35 on one occasion years ago.
Interestingly the sapling planted at the School behind the war memorial many years ago by HM Queen Elizabeth II, is now a mature tree; see below.
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