The School is currently planning an event to commemorate the Old Mancunians who gave their lives at the Somme and the Ypres Salient.
St. George’s Memorial Church in Ypres is home to many memorial plaques remembering soldiers who died in the area from various schools and colleges. MGS has purchased its own memorial plaque to remember the 166 OMs who were killed in the area. The unveiling will happen as part of the morning church service at St. George’s on Sunday 3rd March 2019, and Old Mancunians are invited to attend. We are also planning a dinner for Old Mancunians on the previous day (Saturday 2nd March) and details of this event will be advertised soon.
These events will be particularly poignant, as they will link us back to a group of Old Mancunian soldiers stationed near Ypres, who in 1917 held an impromptu dinner. We have the menu, which has an MGS flavour – “Hors D’Ouvres Mancuniens” “Potage A l’Irk” and “Veau Roti Paton”. The next week half the diners were killed in action.
Rachel Kneale
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