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Celtic Cross rededicated as college remembers fallen heroes

Tuesday 11 November 2008

Staff and students from Redcar & Cleveland College joined with veterans, existing and former students and members of public to remember our country’s fallen heroes at the college’s annual Service of Remembrance today (Friday 7th November).

 
The service, which is a tradition maintained by the college dating back to the days of Sir William Turner’s school in the early 20th century, was lead by the Reverend Graham Pacey – himself a former pupil of Sir William Turner’s and was attended by over 150 people.
 
The service included a March On by Standard Bearers from the Royal British Legion and ex-service groups as well as readings by college students Laura Waugh and Daniel Drazdauskas and by College Foundation Governor Pat Rutherford.
 
The Act of Remembrance, by Rev. Pacey and College Governor Sylvia Hall, was followed by the Last Post and two minutes silence.
 
It also included the rededication of the Celtic Cross war memorial by the Bishop of Whitby – the Rt. Reverend Robert Ladds - after it has been moved to a new and more prominent home on the corner of Corporation Road and Locke Road from the grounds of the old college.
 
Wreaths were laid at the cross, which commemorates old boys of Sir William Turner School who fell in the Great War. A bronze plaque records the names of those who died in the Second World War. 102 of the school’s former pupils died in the two wars.
  
Peter Chester from Redcar & Cleveland College, who organised the service, said: “We are extremely grateful to everyone who took the time to come along to today’s service which carries on a tradition dating back almost 90 years.”
 
College Principal Gary Groom said: “The re-siting of the memorial is recognition that we at the college will continue to remember the sacrifices made by former staff, students and local people who gave their lives for our freedom.” 

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