Primary Assembly To Celebrate VE Day
In line with our RSHE curriculum, we commemorated VE day in our Primary assembly.
Mr Green gave a recount of a real-life soldier, Harry Nicholls, from Nottinghamshire. Harry Nicholls was a miner before the war and enlisted with his friends. He served in France where in 1940 he performed an incredible act of gallantry in attacking some German machine gun positions saving many of his comrades’ lives. He disappeared during the attack and was presumed “dead”. The news got back to his wife and baby daughter.
He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions and his wife attended Buckingham Palace to receive his medal. She wore it proudly for the next few years. On VE Day she felt a lot of happiness that the war was over but sadness because she had lost her husband, only for about a week later, there was a knock on the door and Harry was stood there.
He had survived the incident and had been captured and spent the war in a German prisoner of war camp.
