Cathedral High unveils memorial honouring former Hamilton students who died in world wars
“A number of these soldiers as the students, staff and members of the greater community will learn … were only one, two or three years older than the current students at the school,” Lepore said.“So this is a great way to pay tribute to these Cathedral heroes as well as to to educate our current and future students.”
Lepore, a Cathedral staffer for 37 years, says a myriad of venues were used over the years to confirm which soldiers did attend the school, including newspapers, yearbooks and dialogue with friends and family still living. A new war memorial display at Cathedral High in Hamilton, Ont. has plaques of the 74 Cathedral heroes containing portraits of local soldiers as well as military information.“We had to confirm in two different ways that the soldiers did indeed attend Cathedral,” Leopre explained.“It was made a little more difficult because it’s research which goes back to the beginning of COVID and we were limited at times in our access to archival information.
The ‘Wall of Distinction,’ which hangs outside the main office, sits beside a marble sculpture built in 1947 also bearing names of some of the estimated 500 school heroes who fought in the war.
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