HORSFORTH School’s final Ceremony of Remembrance for the town’s First World War soldiers raised £600 for military charities and the PTA.

Two hundred people attended the event to see about thirty students taking part in a range of performances with particular emphasis on War Poets such as Wilfrid Owen. A sketch entitled The Poets re-enacted the one meeting between Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon and Owen at an Edinburgh golf course in 1917.

Individual presentations included Finlay Smith reading Jennifer Beck’s Little Red Hen and Alex del Brocco delivering a monologue to new recruits entitled Somme Mud. The audience sang old favourites from the war and the evening concluded with a moving rendition of For the Fallen by Mark Holland with Frank Lavelle playing The Last Post as attendees observed a one minute silence.

The Yorkshire Regiment and ABF The Soldiers’ Charity will benefit from funds raised.