In the words of Headmaster Rev Coombes from February 1917.
"The scheme for a war memorial is taking shape. The thing to avoid is vagueness.
It is not a memorial of strangers, whom we honour for their greatness of soul alone;
it is an attempt to keep green the memory of those whose hands we have clasped,
of those who have shared with us in many a frolic, many a game, of those whose absence
we shall feel for many a year to come."
I hope the Memorial Website that we launch today will be our homage in a medium
appropriate to our generation to those from the Hurst Community who played their
part in the Great War.
Mary-Louise Rowland
Deputy Archivist