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Headmastership.” From this we may surmise that work on the interior fixtures and fittings was still in progress, and this seems indeed to have been the case, for the Derbeian over the following years mentions bequests to the Chapel and donations of various items for use in routine Anglican services.
Chapel 1957
To conclude this expanded section on Percy Currey’s Chapel, we can be sure that he was a frequent participator in its many ceremonies over the years, as the ODs held services there that Percy was almost certain to have attended. Though his surviving adult diaries in the hands of his family only cover the period 1900- 1902, there are several references therein to Percy attending School speech days, plays and other entertainments, so there can be little doubt that he was also a frequent visitor to the Chapel. With the passage of time, several commemorative events took place in which the School Chapel figured prominently, particularly the Boer War and the Great War, both of which were remembered by the fixing of marble tablets to the interior walls of the chapel. Both these and that commemorating the Second World War are now at Moorway Lane, but the names of the dead of both world wars are inscribed on the obelisk in the forecourt of St. Helen’s House and which still remains the property of the Old Derbeian Society. It was erected in 1921 by Sir Reginald Blomfield, the nephew of the same Sir Arthur Blomfield who first employed the young Percy Currey as his clerk of works at Repton School in 1886.
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