Remembrance Day was observed at Hennessy this year at the Memorial that is within the college grounds. Part of the memorial is a pine tree that was planned from a seedling that came from Lone Pine in Gallipoli. The College is honored to house this special monument to the brave sacrifice of the Young men who served their country in the first global conflict.

Our two College Captains Liam Jewitt and Joy Cass led the service and laid the wreath with Mrs Kathy Holding. 

Student volunteers from Year 7 to our new HSC Class participated in the service in a variety of ways; from reading the prayer, a reflection on the poem In Flanders Fields with recitation of the poem, and a group reading of The Hon. Paule Keating’s Eulogy for the Unknown Soldier. As well as performing the Last Post and Rouse for the Flag ceremony and the traditional minutes silence at 11am.  

2020 marks the 75th Anniversary for the end of the Second World War. A conflict that saw the grim specter of global war touch our shores for the first time. Hennessy Catholic College is a proud war memorial school with not only the Lone Pine pine in our rounds but E Block being constructed for the memory of the fallen of World War II. 

The students and staff offer our prayers for all those affected by war.