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NOVEMBER

Lest we forget Kirkness. After the sounding of Reveille, a passage from the December 1918
the Contingent, Principal and guests
edition of The Herioter, which were both
made their way to the School Hall for the hard-hitting and thought-provoking.
The noise of a war that had raged for Remembrance service.
four-and-a-half years finally ceased In this ever-changing world, it is more
on November 11, 1918. Some 101 This year, we heard from some cadets important than ever to remember those
years later, on Remembrance Sunday, who, along with others from their year, who fought and died for their country,
the Heriot’s community gathered on had been to visit the First World War giving the ultimate sacrifice and so giving
the terrace and by the war memorial to battlefields in France and Belgium. Lance their today for our tomorrow.
remember those who died in the First Corporal Maddie Boyes and Corporal Cadet Flight Sergeant Maxwell
World War and all wars. Finlay Rae read the poem My Pals and McClellan
The traditional CCF parade started with
the Contingent being brought up to the
position of attention by Drum Major
Rachel Fairley, ahead of the arrival of the
Principal and her party. The Last Post
was played by the buglers, Otto Bruce-
Gardyne and Saachin Chandran, and a
two-minute silence commenced when
the gun of Edinburgh Castle sounded.
Following that, the piper, Brodie Watson-
Massey, played the Piper’s Lament.
The Principal and her party then read
the dedications for each of the wreaths,
which were laid in turn by Flight
Sergeant Maxwell McClellan, Colour
Sergeant Calum White, Sergeant Netty
MacLachlan and Corporal Gabrielle

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