FORMER pupils of King Charles I School in Kidderminster joined together on the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month 100 years after the outbreak of the First World War.
A group of Old Carolians met in their old school hall at Woodfield, in Bewdley Street, which is now the town’s register office, for a service to commemorate past pupils who gave their lives in military combat.
The service was conducted by Canon Paul Brothwell with the names of the fallen in the First World War read out by group president Richard Woolley while vice president Ken Ryder read out those who lost their lives in the Second World War.
Also remembered were former Girls High School pupil Isobel Squires who lost her life in the Second World War, Darryl Cope who fell in the Falklands War, and Richard Brandon who was killed in Afghanistan.
Mr Woolley placed a wreath at the memorial window and the service concluded with the reading of several traditional passages.
The readings included one from Harry Patch, the last survivor of the First World War soldiers, who died in 2009 at the age of 111.
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