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SPIRITUAL LIFE
read by the Head Boy and Head Girl of
bravery and ultimate sacri昀椀ce gave us and
the Prep School, George R. and Daisy
our country the greatest gift: freedom.
W; and an address by OF Major Charlie
Sprake, Irish Guards. With our Chapel
One of those who fought for our freedom
full of song and prayer, the poignant and
was Old Framlinghamian Major Kenneth
deeply moving service gave everyone
Mayhew, who played a pivotal role
in attendance a moment to pause,
during D-Day in the liberation of the
remember, honour and re昀氀ect.
Netherlands from Nazi occupation.
Ken has been honoured for his brave
Another key remembrance service took
endeavours in a British independent
place in June as we marked 80 years
featured 昀椀lm entitled ‘The Bloodiest
since the D-Day landings; the largest
Square Mile’, which follows his heroic
seaborne invasion in history and the
actions as well as being a poignant
beginning of the liberation of Western
tribute to all the D-Day Veterans of the 1st
Europe. Brought together by the land, air,
Battalion of the Su昀昀olk Regiment.
and sea, brave allied forces stormed the
beaches of Normandy into Nazi-occupied
Created by Angus Robertson and Graeme
France under the code name ‘Operation
Hodges, and narrated by Tony Slater,
Overlord’.
the 昀椀lm was premiered to pupils across
the College as a key educational and
For British soldiers, the mission at Gold
remembrance tool, ensuring the younger
Beach was to capture the Meuvaines
generation never forgets the historic
Ridge and advance inland towards
events and immense sacri昀椀ce of that time.
Bayeux, linking up with Canadian allies
at Juno Beach and US allies at Omaha
On Thursday 6 June, a special assembly
Beach. It was a battle which lasted twelve
service was held at the Prep School, with
weeks, and by the end of August 1944
remembrance poems read by Year 8
the allies had successfully reached the
pupils Catharine UP and Mylo HR before
Seine River, Paris was liberated, and
parents and members of the school
the Germans had been removed from
community gathered on the Terrace
northwestern France. The battle was
dressed in red, white and blue for a
the start of Hitler’s downfall, and in 1945
1940s-style celebration tea party.
Germany surrendered, marking the end
At the Senior School, a D-Day chapel
of WW2.
service opened with ‘I Vow to Thee
During a range of special ceremonies,
My Country’ alongside a CCF stand
the College honoured and celebrated
to honour. WO2 (SSI) Roy Witham
the lives of the 22,442 servicemen and
honoured veterans and recalled their
women under British command who
stories of courage during the landings
fell on D-Day and during the Battle of
at Normandy, with special tributes to
Normandy, and remembered how their
veteran Stanley Hollis who received the
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