Baines Wartime project
This section will include WW1 and WW2 and will be the largest social history project ever undertaken in the school
The school has two war memorials and the Book of Rembrance all on the back wall of the school hall. The WWI War Memorial is inscribed 1914 - 1919 although this should be 1914 to 1920, as George Blakeway of the Australian imperial Army died of TB after being injured in battle. He died on 21st March 1920.
At least one other OB does not appear on any other War Memorial as he had been discharged from the Royal Engineers and then died of his injuries (possibly gangrene).
The school war memorials are unique in that they contain the names of those that died in the wars irrespective of conflict and their hometown. Town War Memorials only list those from that town..
I have written three books that will be placed in the archive
Book one gives the backstory of those OB and masters that died in WWI
Book two gives the backstory of those OBand masters that died in WWII
Book three are the correspondence with some backstory related to the wartime messages in the Poultonian
Book one - the Great War