Mayor of Gisborne George Wildish unveiled the Ormond School roll of honour on 30 September 1919. It was a substantial wooden tablet which listed the names of 63 men who had served in the First World War, including 17 who had died. A further ten fallen were listed after the Second World War. The roll of honour is today displayed in the Ormond hall, which was moved to the school in 1993.
‘Welcome to Ormond School’ [public notice], Poverty Bay Herald, 5/3/1920, p. 1; ‘Ormond School: Honours Board Unveiled’, Poverty Bay Herald, 1/10/1919, p. 3; Michele Frey & Sara Newman, On a Saturday Night: Community Halls of Small-town New Zealand, Christchurch, 2013, pp. 55-61.
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