A 101-year-old RAF veteran was guest of honour at a Remembrance service at City of Wolverhampton College on Tuesday, 11 November.
Maurice Revington Everett, from Cheshire, who was a flight lieutenant in 78 Squadron in World War Two joined around 100 students who are studying for qualifications in uniformed public services at the college’s Wellington Road campus, in Bilston.
The students, wearing college-branded uniforms and poppies, formed up in the college quadrangle and two standard bearers paraded in the union jack and college flag.
The service included a welcome from the college chaplain, recitals by students in English, Polish and Urdu, and a reading of the Exhortation before the Last Post was played on a clarinet by personal tutor Heather Houlston.
Students will stood to attention for the national two-minute silence which was followed by a recital of the Kohima Epitaph and the laying of wreaths or memorial symbols by students from a range of college departments.
Joanne Hughes, a tutor on the public services course, who organised the event, said: “We were extremely honoured that Maurice was able to join us at the service and our students enjoyed talking to him afterwards and finding our about the important role that his squadron played during the war.”
Following the service, students from the college’s Students’ Union and Futures foundation learning programme ran a refreshments stall with profits to be donated to the Royal British Legion and Help for Heroes.
Later in the day, a group of public services students visited Foxland Grange Care Home, in Tettenhall, to talk to residents who are ex-forces personnel about their experiences of being on active service during periods of conflict.
