PART TWO
‘OUR FAIR SHARE OF METAPHORICAL HONEY’
Anzac Day ceremonies were a marked feature of cadet ceremonies at the school until the 1970s. Here, in 1951, the unit is parading before the ceremony in the assembly hall, a building described as little more than ‘an old galvanised iron army mess-shed’.
In December 1943 the School Council resolved to construct a Memorial Hall to commemorate the School’s veterans of the two world wars, the second of which was still raging. This Resolution was coined in the expectation that there would be many more names of the fallen to be added to any commemorative roll. BOTTOM LEFT: The cadet unit had first acquired an elaborate set of drums in April 1943 at the cost of £50. This photograph dates from April 1952, when the Drum Band was well established. These drummer boys were nicknamed the ‘Drumskins’.
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