Remembrance Day service to commemorate 100th anniversary of First World War
Twenty-two members of the McMaster family were lost during the First World War. Their names, as well as those who were killed in the Second World War, will be read aloud at Tuesday's Remembrance Day ceremony.
“The Great War of the Ten Nations…cannot help but have a very direct effect upon the fortunes and activities of the graduates of McMaster.”
J. Herbert Cranston couldn’t have known how true these words would become when he wrote them in the McMaster University Monthly in 1914.
By the end of the First World War, McMaster had lost some 22 men to the fighting in Europe.
Another 35 were killed in the Second World War.
The University community will honour the students and alumni killed in the two World Wars, as well as those who have fallen since, at its Remembrance Day service Tuesday.
The ceremony will mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Great War.
The event has taken on even more meaning since the shooting of Hamilton’s Corporal Nathan Cirillo while he stood guard at the National War Memorial last month.
In addition to reading out the names on the McMaster Honour Roll, Alumni Association President Sandra Stephenson will read from Bernard Trotter’s poem “To The Students of Liege.”
The alumnus’ work, composed in the days following the declaration of war, is one of many pieces Trotter had published before he was killed in action in May 1917.
McMaster’s Remembrance Day service is scheduled to begin at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, November 11 in Convocation Hall. All are welcome.
