More than 30 members of Repton School’s choir, together with dozens of Old Reptonians and Governors travelled to Belgium for an Evensong Service at St George’s Memorial Church, Ypres, during which a new plaque to the 355 Reptonians who fell during the Great War was dedicated.
The Repton ceremony was held on the same weekend as The Sherwood Foresters, had a memorial dedication on the Western Front to the 11,000 of its men killed there in WW1.
The Choir sang during the Sherwood Foresters’ Memorial Service which included the unveiling of the Foresters’ memorial and the planting of an oak tree, cloned from the Mighty Oak of Sherwood Forest. The choir was accompanied by the bands of the Mercian Regiments.
Ahead of the service the Choir were taken on a battlefield tour tailored to include visits to battlefields where Old Reptonians fell.