The school stands on the Dee estuary. The carillon is played regularly. The sound of its bells can be heard across the school and out over "the sands of Dee".
I N T H I S B E L F R Y I S A M E M O R I A L T O A L L A N A P P L E B Y D R E W A N D T O T H E O T H E R S O F T H E F O U R S C O R E O F O U R B O Y S N A M E D B E L O W W H O F E L L F I G H T - I N G F O R E N G L A N D I N T H E G R E A T W A R |
REDDERE DVM POSSENT HAVD METVERE MORI.
NEC POTVERE, DEVS RESPONDET; SCILICET ILLIS
VIVERE QVI DOCEANT VITA PERENNIS ERIT.
"Heroic boys, cut off before their day ; Danger and pain for England they defied ; Yet as they fought, for us untimely died." | They fought for Freedom; strove - to finish strife; All generations, taught by them to live, Life everlasting to their teachers give." |
HI TIBI JAM SOCIO COMPOSVERE TVBAS.
Their ready ranks rose at the trumpet's peal ; How will you give them thanks? | So must your life, like theirs, ring sweet and true ; You, too, have "joined the ranks." |
ADAMSON D ALISON A J ANTHONY T V ATKIN K BARRINGTON N S BENNETT J W BLAKE J M BOLTON H H BOLTON J BURRELL J S G CLEAVER C R DIX G S DOMAN G H R DUCKWORTH E ENTWISTLE J M B EVERS H L GAISFORD L GARRARD W G B GELL J B S | HARTLEY J H HASLAM C S HODGES H B HUDSON R D IRVINE G F ISITT W W JACKSON J K E JACKSON F W JAPP W N JOHNSON H E JOHNSON W G E JOHNSON P C E JOHNSON G R JOHNSON H N JOHNSON B C JONES-PARRY J I KENION H C KNIGHT F T LEADBITTER F J G | LEVENTON R S LONGWORTH E C LOVE J E McGREGOR D P MacIVER R S MASSEY H H MEARES C S MOORE J G MURRAY L NANSON J OGDEN P O'NEILL S OLDFIELD H L PARK C A M PERRIN E C PHETHEAN C PORRITT W M PURVIS R C RAE J E P | RIDGEWAY I A ROBERTS J S RUTHERFORD D A SMITH Wyndham SOLLY A N STIRLING G S STOCKLEY C H STONE R C TATHAM B O TOTTENHAM A H TROUSDELL W H C VAUGHAN-LEWIS M T VENNER G E VERNON H D WALKER T C WATT R S YARBOROUGH E S And any others not traced |
BE A SCHOOL THEY ARE TO BE OFFERED TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL, PREFERABLY TO CHARTERHOUSE, THAT THEY MAY GO ON SPEAKING TO ENGLISH BOYS |