Senior School Commemorates Armistice Agreement In Remembrance Service

Joined by governors, past pupils and servicemen and women, the Kingswood community gathered outside of the Chapel on Friday 8 November for a Remembrance Day service.

Amongt attendees was Squadron Leader, Geoff Ellis (KS 1987-1994), who read the Call to Worship.

Kingswood commemorates all sevicemen and women, past and current with links to the School.

One name particularly remembered is that of Hardy Falconer Parsons, who attended Kingswood from 1912-1915. Hardy was awarded the Victoria Cross, the nation's highest honour, for his 'gallantry in the face of the enemy'.

The offical report reads:

Our men fell back before the flames, but Hardy Parsons held the post single-handed, though severly burnt with the liquid fire, and held up the enemy with combs till the Company commander was able to organise a new bombing party which drove the Germans back before they could enter our trenches.

The school Chapel has a memorial brass plaque to his memory and he is among a roll of 116 former pupils - and three staff - who fell in the Great War.

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