Community, Development and Alumni From the Archives After the guns fell silent on 11 November 1918, the ‘war to end all wars’ continued to claim victims. Six of the Newingtonians whose names appear on the‘Fallen’ panels of our 1914–18 Honour Roll died after the Armistice, between 28 November 1918 and 7 October 1919. But even these were not the end of the war’s grim toll. Just over one in six of the Newingtonians who served in the First World War diedin the course of their service. Among those who returned, a significant proportion had been wounded or were otherwise damaged physically and/or psychologically, with the effects lasting for the rest of their lives and affecting families, friends and whole communities. It was the same across the country. We have little evidence of these impacts on Newingtonians returned from the war, but three obituaries from the following years give us some indication. Eric St Julien Pearce, from Dulwich Hill, had attended the College from 1910 to 1913 and entered Duntroon the followingyear. Old Newingtonians on a troopship, 1915: Herbert Leslie Dill is at left rear. Serving on the Western Front, he was On 7 September 1918 an ‘Old Newingtonian khaki contingent’ participated in the School Sports, pictured here with the ‘tug of war’ teams. 50| NEWS SPRING 2018| GRATITUDE