Birthday Honour for General Gordon

From St Paul’s Cathedral to the Front Field at Gordon’s. Today piper Amber Wright performed the lament and the School Chaplain, the Reverend Graham Wright conducted a short service on what would have been General Gordon’s 192nd birthday. A wreath was laid at the foot of the Gordon Statue, by Gordonian Officer Harriet Turk. The quiet, intimate service follows similar ones held in the past two weeks at the Gordon Statue on the Thames Embankment; the memorial at Westminster Abbey and monument at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Pipes and Drums Tour marking 140 years of the school as the National Memorial to the war hero and philanthropist.