PNBHS Anzac Service

Thank you to all of our young men and guests for their contribution to the annual PNBHS Anzac Service. Scholarship History student Jacob Waugh delivered the Anzac Address, in which he highlighted the life and death of Old Boy Phillip Wallace Smith. Head Prefect Telson Liuvaie and Year 9 student Finley McQuade, the youngest student at PNBHS, placed a wreath on behalf of the current students of the school, Year 13 student Arahan Pilkington played the Last Post and Reveille as Deputy Head Prefect Aadesh Ganugapati lowered and then raised the New Zealand flag.

The Anzac Service is part of the very important link between our current students and our Old Boys community. Thank you to Mr. Alan Cull, Patron of the PNBHS Old Boys Association, who laid a wreath at the Gallipoli Oak on behalf of the Old Boys, to Old Boy and former PNBHS staff member Mr.Stu Leighton, who read the Roll of Honour for World War One, and to Old Boy and Board of Trustees Chairperson Mr. Michael Lawrence, who read the Roll of Honour for World War Two and the Falklands Conflict.  

When the boys move from the hall to the front lawn of the school for the laying of wreaths and playing of the Last Post and Reveille, they walk in silence through a path marked with crosses, each bearing the name, photograph and service number of one of the 203 PNBHS Old Boys killed in war.

Thank you also to the Royal New Zealand Air Force for providing a fly over during our Anzac Service.