The First World War Memorial, entitled “Death and the Wounded Soldier”, was dedicated in 1928 and created by the American sculptor Daniel Chester French. The names of alumni who died in the War are carved behind the monument which stands in the chantry of the New Chapel.

After War

There came a voice the other day,
Still and small and far away,
Calling where the wheat ears dance
In the lovely fields of France.

Comrade, when we crossed the sea,
You and I were glad to be
On the ship, and on this shore,
Hastening to righteous war.

Beside a German boy I lie,
Where the yellow wheat grows high,
Here we whisper through long nights
Of friendly days and homely sights.

Help the boys you teach to see
Death in dark diplomacy.
Say the sea has but one shore,
Say there is no righteous war.

(John Richards, Songs of a Schoolmaster, 1928)