School lights up red in memory of 177 pupils who lost lives on frontline

A school has been lit up in red to remember pupils who died on the frontline during the First and Second World Wars. 

Glasgow’s Kelvinside Academy, which has one of the biggest Combined Cadet Forces in the country, participated in Poppy Scotland’s “Lighting Up Red” campaign in memory of 177 students who lost their lives while serving in the armed forces.

As part of the tribute to the fallen in the city’s West End, handmade ornamental poppies, one for every former pupil whose lives were lost whilst fighting for their country, have been planted on the school’s grounds.

Daniel Wyatt, Rector of Kelvinside Academy, said: “The Kelvinside Academy community will never forget our former pupils who fought and died during WWI and WWII.

“Lighting up the school and creating this display is a lasting reminder to everybody of the sacrifice they, and everybody who fought in those conflicts, made. We will always remember them.”  

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