Speaking to the Telegraph, Mr Cairns said: “Most of the boys who left were volunteers and many of them died on the western front during the Great War but they never had a proper visible memorial.
“I wanted to have something in the centenary that young men and women can see and be grateful that they didn’t have to go through the same experience as their predecessors.
“I wanted it to be a physical link between them. The boaters as a symbol are reconnecting the pupils with a former generation of boys who lost their lives so they could be free.”
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